1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 (Adams Papers)
...If they get Philadelphia, they will hang a Mill stone about their Necks. They must evacuate N...
2Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 6 February 179[1] (Adams Papers)
...are some who can see further through’ a mill stone than others to whom mr Madisons designs are...
3Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
...Aristocracy, their corruption & venality, is a mill stone upon the federal part. there is as...
4Adams’ Commonplace Book: Ca. 1759 (Adams Papers)
Leaving of Mill stones damnified, without making satisfaction is a Breach of a... ...Mill stones...
5To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 21 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
...Stroke, if she was prepared and had not a Mill Stone about Her neck! The whole of the English...
...a measure G: Britain being freed from that Mill Stone about her Neck, the American War, might...
7To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
...in Germany and France—to obtain mill-Stones—or Splitting large rocks—by driving wooden...
8To John Adams from W.H. Sumner, 3 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
..., ravines, rivers, meadows, mountains, mills, stone walls, and villages present, are...
9From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
...trampled upon, as formerly. She has not such a mill stone of debt to sink her as GB. a few...
10Introductory Note: Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, [9 January 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
...regularity and in season will hang like a mill stone about the neck of Massachusetts for...