11Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 12 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
...the upper part of her neck which old time had harrow’d. She had no cap on, but a little...
12John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 April 1794 (Adams Papers)
...you think best: but manure your Barley ground well and harrow it well.
13Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
...and now they will get on the manure, and Harrow it in some persons Say, that cross plowing...
14John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 December 1796 (Adams Papers)
...Unkindness. I shall retire without much of either to harrow up my soul. It is rather a dull...
15Abigail Adams to John Adams, 6 February 1797 (Adams Papers)
...it. he is making a New cart putting his Harrow and tools in order. his wanderings have not...
16William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
Will harrow up my soul, freeze my young blood,”
17From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 3 April 1782 (Adams Papers)
...know Some of the Ploughing and hoeing and harrowing, which has prepared the Ground you...
18V. To the Abbé de Mably, 17 January 1783 (Adams Papers)
...know Some of the Ploughing and hoeing and harrowing, which has prepared the Ground you...
19To John Adams from John Dudley, 2 November 1783 (Adams Papers)
...of four letters from Dudley recounting his harrowing experiences as a prisoner. The others...
20From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 29 December 1783 (Adams Papers)
’s harrowing journey, which followed a different route, see his
21John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 19 July 1784 (Adams Papers)
...after having led that of a Toad under an Harrow for four Years before. But I Swear I...
22To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 6 September 1787 (Adams Papers)
...schoolmaster Samuel Parr (1747–1825), of Harrow on the Hill, was curate of Hatton, England...
23To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 20 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
among the Members, harrow my very Soul—
24From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 4 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
...know some of the ploughing, hoeing and harrowing, which has prepared the ground: You know some...
25From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
...say to you in Confidence, I can when I will harrow up their Souls, by a very Simple Tale of...
26From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
...I ever received in my Life. It has arroused and harrowed up my Soul. I know not what to Say...
27From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 16 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
...raise wheat when you will, by ploughing and harrowing deep enough, by plenteous manure, and by...
28From John Adams to James Lloyd, 5 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
...your Perusal and proceed to Something, which has harrowed up my soul, and all its Feelings....
29From John Adams to Richard Rush, 24 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
...Years, and more have my feelings, been harrowed, with the clamours of the Southern and middle...
30From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 16 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
...Quincy and Leonard, and many others that would harrow up my Soul; among the rest myself,...
31From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 11 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
...in the Year 1761 and 1762. Otis had ploughed harrowed and manured a rich Strong Soil, and Sown...
32From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 6 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
...honour to it. But last Evening, the Harrows of the Newspapers brought to recollection, some...
33To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 4 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
...how cruelly my own feelings were to be harrowed, by the same visitation of Heaven upon myself...
...an hours ride of Kew, Richmond, Twickenham, Harrow, and a variety of other beautiful places,...
35From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 11 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
.... Siddons used to perform in a style which harrowed the Souls of the beholders—I heard her...
36From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
...for you in this life, preserve me from the harrowing thought of your perdition in the next...
37Appraisal of Personal Estate by Daniel Greenleaf, 1 August 1826 (Adams Papers)
Ploughs Harrow & Sled—
38John Adams, Inventory of Estate, 5 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Ploughs, Harrow & Sled 17.—Tools & Chains 41.
39John Quincy Adams, Account of Sale of Part of John Adams’s Estate, 27 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
1 Harrow
40John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, III, Inventory of John Adams’s Estate, September 1826 (Adams Papers)
1 Harrow—Plough, Harrow & sled $17. Tools & chains $41.
41Enclosure: [Account on the State of Argriculture], 27 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
ploughs Harrows,
42To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 26 August 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...deliberate acts of a determined party) should be harrowing our vitals in such a manner as to...
43To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Woodmason: Poetical Epistle, 20 September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
The bolt descends and harrows up the ground,
44To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 10–21 February 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...Feb. 7, 1765, carried an account of his harrowing voyage from New York. On Plumsted’s death,...
45From Benjamin Franklin to [John Jay], [after 14 February 1782] (Franklin Papers)
...But I suspect you have heard our Story of the Harrow. If not, here it is. A Farmer in...
46To Benjamin Franklin from Anne Ogle, 22 April 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...s acquaintance John Ridout. He had been enrolled at the Harrow School:
47To Benjamin Franklin from John Adams, 19 July 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...after having led that of a Toad under an Harrow for four Years before. But I Swear I...
48[April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Sowd my Fallow Field in Oats to day, and harrowed them in viz. 10½ Bushels. Got done about...
49[Diary entry: 3 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Sowd my Fallow Field in Oats to day, and harrowed them in viz. 10½ Bushels. Got done about...
50[Diary entry: 12 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
...plowing the Clover Field. Abt. 1 Mullatto Jack began harrowing it with the wide Toothd Harrow...
51[Diary entry: 14 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
Finishd Harrowing the Clover Field, and began reharrowing of it. Got... ...harrow made of smaller,...
52[Diary entry: 17 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
.... The upper part next the Peach Orchard was Harrowed in during the Rain but before it began...
53[Diary entry: 18 April 1760] (Washington Papers)
...to the Acre. Harrowd it in with the fine toothd Harrow as light as I coud.
54[September 1761] (Washington Papers)
...than sufficient to lay the Dust thoroughly. The seed was Harrowed in with a Brush Harrow and...
55[Diary entry: 8 September 1761] (Washington Papers)
...than sufficient to lay the Dust thoroughly. The seed was Harrowed in with a Brush Harrow and...
56March [1762] (Washington Papers)
.... the Meadow at George Ashfords. Also began Sowing & Harrowing in of Oats....harrowing in my...
57[Diary entry: 22 March 1762] (Washington Papers)
.... the Meadow at George Ashfords. Also began Sowing & Harrowing in of Oats.
58[Diary entry: 27 March 1762] (Washington Papers)
Finished Sowing & harrowing in my Oats. Viz. 44 Bushels.
59Remarks & Occurances in June [1769] (Washington Papers)
...the Plows and began it a third time with the Harrows....began with the Harrows in the...
60[Diary entry: 10 June 1769] (Washington Papers)
...the Plows and began it a third time with the Harrows.