1To John Adams from Joshua Sands, 11 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Josh Sands
2To John Adams from John Churchman, 12 September 1792 (Adams Papers)
...which it came was ran aground on the Goodwin Sands by a Dutch Navigator, who left her to...
3To John Adams from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 16 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
...Two thousand Dollars, I inclose a Letter to Mr. Sands who will pay that sum to your order.
4To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 August 1780 (Adams Papers)
...day to hear of Lord Cornwallis being confined to the Sands of Charlestown.
5To John Adams from William Wallones, 26 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
...have exercised since the appointment of Mr. Sands to the Collectorship, has necessarily led...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 19 June 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...TJ: “Our Commissions are as numerous as the Sands, are limited to two years, during which time...
7Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
...that mr Morris who is in the office of mr sands, and who is desirious of obtaining it, he told...
8Charles Adams to John Adams, 28 December 1796 (Adams Papers)
Joshua Sands is his guardian and has since my first acquaintance with... ...Sands object to give...
9To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 21 July 1785 (Adams Papers)
...the latter Case, will esteem our Confederacy a rope of Sand—
10To John Adams from Pseudonym: "Verax", 22 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
...a Pilot. to mark The Shoals, & Quick sands; & led for want of better Preceptors, to...
11Tristram Dalton to John Adams, 21 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
...look on the Confederation as a rope of Sand, and trifle on untill they have compleated...
12To John Adams from James Warren, 17 September 1777 (Adams Papers)
...Carpenter, Cooper, Butcher, Shoemaker, Sand-Driver, &c. and audaciously commencing...
13To John Adams from the Comte de Sarsfield, 5 June 1783 (Adams Papers)
...the cellar, and it is advisable to put a little sand between them.
14Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...to make you. Something like the Barrel of Sand suppose you will think it, but really...
15To John Adams from Henry Marchant, 29 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
...Ten Years, this Confœderacy like a Rope of Sand, will be found inadequate to the Purpose;...
16To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 January 1802 (Adams Papers)
...exceptions. The Salmon shed its spawn in the sand, make a ditch around it and surround...
17To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 27 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
...life, and learn to skim the rocks and quick sands as thickly strewn in my path—and I trust...
18Abigail Adams to John Adams, 9 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
...no Letters came by Capt. Lovett but a Dr. Sands reports that he saw a child whom they told him...
19To John Adams from William Vernon Sr., 17 December 1778 (Adams Papers)
...Chatham, Conn., was not floated over the sand bar at the mouth of the Connecticut River...
20To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 17 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
...Voyage thro the Vale of years will be amidst quick Sands—Shoals & Sunken rocks
21From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 21 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
...—The ideas which clung to his “last sand” were inseparable from Representation—He was...
22To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 16 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
...to reflect and not to “build my house in the Sand” my life has been a life of changes, and...
23To John Adams from Adam Gerard Mappa, 30 December 1801 (Adams Papers)
..., all along the Coast of Zeeland, from Sand Banks interspersed with Stone rifts.—On these...
24To John Adams from William Cunningham, 15 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
...ranging on an exposed plain like Ostriches on the open sands, depending, like them,
25To John Adams from James Lloyd, 7 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
...teach our Oarsmen their duty by rowing in the Sand, if the power of the Country were steadily...
26To John Adams from Department of the Treasury, 1801 (Adams Papers)
I received of Mr Joshua Sands
27Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 January 1796 (Adams Papers)
...am sure they cannot be held by a Rope of sand.
28To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 16 January 1796 (Adams Papers)
..., as the foundation for a battery, on a sand bar, opposite Mud Island, to make a cross...
29To John Adams from William MacCreery, 5 January 1779 (Adams Papers)
.... Martin’s for it, are obliged to carry Sand. In this manner hath many Vessels, half loaded...
30Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
...and the night unpleasent. The Rocks and quick Sands appear upon every Side. What course you...