We now come to Jersey and Guernsey, which Massachusettensis says “are no part of the realm of...
The cases of Wales and Ireland are not yet exhausted. They afford such irrefragable proofs, that...
Give me leave now to descend from these general matters, to Massachusettensis. He says “Ireland...
4From John Adams to the Reverend Caleb Gannett, 1 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
It is not easy for me to determine whether it be best, to carry the Cause before the Governor and...
Massachusettensis, in some of his writings has advanced, that our allegiance is due to the...
Wales was a little portion of the island of Great-Britain, which the Saxons were never able to...
7[Monday March 18.] (Adams Papers)
Monday March 18. Order of the Day again. Mr. Harrison reported no Resolution.
The Committee appointed the Sixth of March Inst. to prepare a Covenant agreeable to the...
The Committee appointed to consider relating to Minute Men offerd their report as follows. The...
10From John Adams to James Warren, 15 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have had the Pleasure and the Honour of Several Letters from you, and one from an incomparable...
11From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 15 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
I thought myself greatly honoured, by your most polite and agreable Letter of January the...
It has been often observed by me, and it cannot be too often repeated, that Colonization is Casus...
Our rhetorical magician, in his paper of January the 9th continues to wheedle. “You want nothing...
Such events as the resistance to the stamp act, and to the tea act, particularly the destruction...
We are at length arrived at the paper, on which I made a few strictures, some weeks ago: these I...
Massachusettensis, whose pen can wheedle with the tongue of king Richard the third, in his first...
17From John Adams to a Friend in London, 10 February 1775 (Adams Papers)
“The account you give of an overbearing influence in the house, and the want of feeling and...
The history of the Tories, begun in my last, will be interrupted for some time: but it shall be...
19Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress, 6 February 1775 (Adams Papers)
Resolved, that the Hon. John Hancock Hon. Thomas Cushing Esquires Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams,...
I have heretofore intimated my intention, of pursuing the Tories, through all their dark...
A Writer, under the signature of Massachusettensis, has addressed you, in a series of papers, on...
22From John Adams to a Friend in London, 21 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
“You have no doubt, long before this time, heard the particulars of the General Congress, and...
23From John Adams to James Warren, 3 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have this Moment recd a Line from Mrs. Warren and will in close her Letter to Mrs. Maccaulay,...
24From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 3 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I remember, that Bishop Burnet in a Letter he once wrote to Lady Rachell Russell the virtuous...
25[Report on Boundaries, 1773–1774] (Adams Papers)
In the Fall of the Year 1773, The General Court appointed Mr. Bowdoin and me to draw a State of...
26[In Congress, September–October 1774] (Adams Papers)
It is well known that in June 1774 The General Court at Cambridge appointed Members to meet with...
27From John Adams to James Burgh, 28 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have had the Honour of receiving from you a most valuable desirable Present, in two Volumes of...
Virginia, Chesterfield County, 17 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston...
29From John Adams to Edward Biddle?, 12 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind favour 16. Ulto with great Pleasure last Week at Cambridge. I rejoice at the...
30From John Adams to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Towns and Districts of Massachusetts Bay, 10 December … (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
31Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government, 10 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
Enquire who is the Author? Whether a Sandemanian, a Quaker, or an high Churchman? The Character...
33[November 1774] (Adams Papers)
Left Brother Paine at New York to go by the Packett to New Port. Rode to Cocks at Kings bridge to...
341774. Wednesday. Novr. 9. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Reeve’s of Sudbury.
351774. Tuesday. Novr. 8. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Coll. Henshaws of Leicester. Dined at Woodburns of Worcester. Furnival made the...
361774. Monday. Novr. 7. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Rice’s of Brookfield. Major Foster came to see us, and gave us an Account of the...
371774. Sunday. Novr. 6. (Adams Papers)
Went all day to hear Mr. Baldwin a Presbyterian Minister at Kingston. We put up at Scotts. Mr....
381774 Saturday. Novr. 5. (Adams Papers)
Break fasted at Austins of Suffield. Went to see a Company of Men exercising upon the Hill, under...
391774. Fryday. Novr. 4. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Hartford, at Bulls, where we had the Pleasure of seeing Mr. Adams’s Minister Mr. How,...
401774. Thursday. Novr. 3. (Adams Papers)
We design to Great Swamp to day. 42 miles. At Newhaven, Coll. Dyer, Deane and Sherman, Mr....
411774. Wednesday. Novr. 2. (Adams Papers)
Rode to Bulkleys at Fairfield to dinner, and to Captn. Benjamins of Stratford to lodge.
421774. Tuesday. Novr. 1. (Adams Papers)
Left Brother Paine at New York to go by the Packett to New Port. Rode to Cocks at Kings bridge to...
43[September 1774] (Adams Papers)
This Day, We breakfasted at Mr. Mifflins, Mr. C. Thompson came in, and soon after Dr. Smith. The...
Non Importation, Non Consumption, Non Exportation to Britain, and W. Indies. Petition to the...
45[October 1774] (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Webster. Spent the Evening with Stephen Collins. Went to see the Election at the...
461774 Monday. Oct. 31. (Adams Papers)
Mr. McDougall, Mr. Scott, Captn. Sears, Mr. Platt, Mr. Hewes came to see us. All but the last...
471774. Sunday. Octr. 30. (Adams Papers)
My Birthday. I am 39 Years of Age.—Rode to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey, where We are to dine....
481774. Saturday. Octr. 29. (Adams Papers)
Rode to Prince Town, where We dine, at the sign of Hudibrass.— Vacation at Nassau Hall. Dr....
491774. Fryday. Octr. 28. (Adams Papers)
Took our Departure in a very great Rain, from the happy, the peacefull, the elegant, the...
501774. Thursday. Octr. 27. (Adams Papers)
Went this Morning with Mr. Tudor to see the Carpenters Hall, and the Library, and to Mr. Barrells...