1Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
...has mov’d into Braintree the Garden has been managed by Stetson & Bass and is in a tolerable good Way, tho yet very moist— Gardens have sufferd much in the Winter past— Many Roots destroy’d— Peach Trees &C I do not observe any of the latter hurt in your Garden— one of the Beds of Strawberries was ruind— Our Apple Trees have a large blow and the Blossoms begin to fall—but very few...