1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 March 1777 (Adams Papers)
So that for the future I am to pay only six dollars a Week for Hay and Oats for my Horses. Oats they must have here, for the Hay is such as our Horses cannot live upon, nor indeed their own.
2John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
Buy as much Hay as you please— I was afraid you would be obliged to give more than five Pounds a load....my Fathers— I think it must be in a line with that—if you make an Ell you cutt off all the Prospect. I shall only raise board & shingle it this year—merely for a shelter to the Hay.
3John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
June is the earliest Month that gives a hope to release me. I Suppose you must buy hay— You have not told me whether I am to expect a Colt. Am glad our Men are frugal of their English Hay.
4John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
We have had a vast Abundance of Rain here this Week and hope you have had a Sufficiency with you. But the Plenty of it, will render the Making of Hay the more critical, and you must exhort Bracket to be vigilant, and not let any of the Grass suffer, if he can help it.
5John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
I am sorry to find by your late Letter what indeed I expected to hear, that my Farm wants manure. I fear by your Expressions that your Crop of Hay falls short.
6John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
If How is gone to Charlestown, you will have a little Quiet, and enjoy your Corn and Rye and Flax and Hay, and other good Things, untill another Summer.
7John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 February 1797 (Adams Papers)
Fine Weather to day. Candlemas. Half your corn and half your hay.
8John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 April 1796 (Adams Papers)
You must buy Hay if it is wanted: but there must have been Waste.
9John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 April 1796 (Adams Papers)
Cleopatra ought not to be fed too high— she should have no Grain—only Hay.
10John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am so idle, that I have not an easy Moment, without my Pen in my Hand. My Time might have been improved to some Purpose, in mowing Grass, raking Hay, or hoeing Corn, weeding Carrotts, picking or shelling Peas. Much better should I have been employed in schooling my Children, in teaching them to write, cypher, Latin, French, English and Greek.