11[February 27. Fryday. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
...the same Gulph Stream and found in them shell fishes growing of various Species, vizt. Cockles...
12[February 28. Saturday. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
knowing the caustic quality in the outward Shell I had broken them with my hands, and probably...
13[Tuesday March 10. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
...fire, for he wanted the Egg, without breaking the Shell. I
14[December 7. 1779. Tuesday.] (Adams Papers)
...gave me some Accajou Nutts. In handling the outside Shell, which has a corrosive Oil in it, in...
15Introduction (Adams Papers)
..., the collecting and contemplation of “Cockell shells and Pebblestones,” pleasurable but no...
16[A Letter to Richard Cranch about Orlinda, a Letter on Employing One’s Mind, and Reflections on Procrastination, Genius … (Adams Papers)
...he will instruct him self to contemplate Cockell shells and Pebblestones; if his Rank and...
17[February 1783] (Adams Papers)
...Cabinet of Curiosities, in Painting, sea shells and insects. His Cabinet is pretty well...
1817th. Mond. (Adams Papers)
...Cabinet of Curiosities, in Painting, sea shells and insects. His Cabinet is pretty well...
19[April 1787] (Adams Papers)
...from Sandwich, famous for the excellency of the shell fish which abound there; but alas! how...
208th. (Adams Papers)
Enchanting shell! the sullen cares
2117th. (Adams Papers)
...from Sandwich, famous for the excellency of the shell fish which abound there; but alas! how...
22[November 1787] (Adams Papers)
...earth, and the innumerable quantities of sea shells and other marine productions, found in...
239th. (Adams Papers)
...earth, and the innumerable quantities of sea shells and other marine productions, found in...
24Isaac Smith Jr. to Abigail Adams, 21 February 1771 (Adams Papers)
..., as pyramids, pillars, serpents, hydras, shells, half-moons, fans, furbelows, flounces,...
25John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
...the Man at York, after Eating the same kind of shell fish.
26John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
..., or hoeing Corn, weeding Carrotts, picking or shelling Peas. Much better should I have been...
27Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 March 1776 (Adams Papers)
...of cannon and from whence I could see every shell which was thrown. The sound I think is...shells
28John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 30 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., Flynts, Lead, Cannon, Mortars, Ball, Shells, Musquetts, and Powder, in sufficient Plenty...
29Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 5 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
...among other Things Six large Mortars with Shells suitable for them. These came very...
30John Adams to Abigail Adams, April – May 1780 (Adams Papers)
, shells, Insects, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and presscious stones....
31John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
...Knowledge. We went to see a Collection of marine Shells. We were two hours, and had not got...
...to be purchased here, viz. good Tea, Chokalate or Shells,...shells were used medicinally,...
33Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 27 September 1786 (Adams Papers)
...and a little grotto filld with fosils and shells. The Gardner whose House stands within a...
34John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
...Year, with Justice. I shall build only the shell this Year—Raise the Barn & Board & shingle...
35John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 5 October 1802 (Adams Papers)
...bursting into light through the petrified shell of poverty and neglect, is always...
36Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 January 1803 (Adams Papers)
“The feast of shells—” The Oration, in commemoration of ...as “the feast of shells,” a quotation...
37Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 December 1803 (Adams Papers)
...you can find it and half a dozen lb. of Shells and the same of Chocolate from Ticknors
...to Us. 4 Barells of Meat. 100 Bushells in shells....the meat from the shells on the...
39Anonymous Summary of Defense Evidence: 25–27 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
...Some of them flinging Snow balls and Oyster Shells at the Centinel. Some were for killing...
...it for granted that these snow Balls, Sticks, Oyster shells