1From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 18 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
...ideas of the information and recommendations necessary or proper to be made to congress at...
2From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 12 November 1799 (Adams Papers)
...to both transactions, which you may judge necessary or proper & I pray you to have them...
3From John Adams to the Duc de La Vauguyon, 6 April 1781 (Adams Papers)
...with your Excellency whenever it is necessary or proper, that the United States should be...
...future overtures from them or other circumstances should render it necessary or proper.
5From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 22 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
...my Constant toast: how then can it be necessary or proper for me to produce myself before...
6From John Adams to the Marquis of Carmarthen, 6 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
...or Evidence, they do not think it necessary or proper, to take any measures in consequence of...
7From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 28 July 1807 (Adams Papers)
...Sent on all the Information I thought necessary or proper to be communicated and among the...
...constitutional Measures as they shall judge necessary or proper to obtain Redress. This Right...
9To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 3 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
...from his expected successor has made it necessary or proper for me to inform either of them...
10From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 4 October 1826 (Adams Papers)
...final judgment and execution shall judge necessary or proper to commence against any person or...
11To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 18 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
...perfectly at Leisure, to revise the Laws, and report necessary or proper Amendments.
12The American Commissioners to Richard Henry Lee: Résumé, [9] February 1785 (Franklin Papers)
...unless future overtures from them or other circumstances render it necessary or proper.
13American Commissioners to President of Congress, [9] February 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
...future overtures from them or other circumstances should render it necessary or proper.
14John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
...steps if any besides furnishing the original documents will be necessary or proper to give...
15To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 21 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...on the accuracy of the appointment should it be thought necessary or proper.
16To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll Brent, 29 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...me regret, that you shou’d find it necessary, or proper to remove him—I have been requestd to...
17To George Washington from Edward Carrington, 11 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...with such information as you may think it necessary or proper yet to obtain by enquiry, I beg...
18To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
...of Prizes, as by his Majesty … shall be thought necessary or proper” (
19Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
...peculiar state of things, to make it necessary, or proper, in you, or any other American...
20To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 25 May 1782 (Adams Papers)
...to me, which may appear to be necessary or proper, to guide my political conduct. In...
21To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 13 June 1803 (Madison Papers)
.... I have not, as yet, thought it necessary or proper to intimate to any public Agent here—but...
22From Benjamin Franklin to Ferdinand Grand, 9 January 1785 (Franklin Papers)
...of the 400,000 Livres, it does not seem necessary or proper for me to give such Orders. I can...
23To James Madison from Elizur Goodrich, 14 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...any other or further measures are necessary or proper on their part, for the...
24From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 9 March 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
.... My plan supposes that it is not necessary or proper in the fundamental school to do more...
25From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 10 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...the public good may render perseverance necessary or proper. When it is not requisite...
26From David Humphreys to Timothy Pickering, 10 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
...Gen’l thinks it would scarcely be necessary or proper to give a limitation to the...
27To George Washington from David Humphreys, 8 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
...occasions which will make it either necessary or proper to trouble you with my letters; I...
...Evidence, they do not think it necessary or proper to take any Measures in Consequence of...
29From John Jay to Silas Deane, 16 June 1781 (Jay Papers)
..., forbids Deception. How far it was necessary or proper to mention the same Things in public...
30To John Adams from John Jay, 2 January 1786 (Adams Papers)
...or Evidence, they do not think it necessary, or proper, to take any Measures in Consequence of...