10081December 24. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
There are Men who carry the Countenance and Air of Boys through Life. This Evening Mr. Jay told...
10082[May 3. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
May 3. 1778. The Business of the Commission had been delayed and neglected in a manner that gave...
10083Wednesday Jany. 8th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Home. Wrote &c.
1008428 [i.e. 29] Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams.—What is the proper Business of Mankind in this Life? We come into the...
10085[Monday July 29. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Monday July 29. 1776. A long List of Refferences to the Board of War of Letters from Washington,...
10086January the 14th. 1756. (Adams Papers)
At Worcester. A very rainy Day. Kept school in the forenoon; but not in the afternoon, because of...
10087[October 1760] (Adams Papers)
Waited on Mr. Gridley for his Opinion of my Declaration Lambard v. Tirrell, and for his Advice,...
10088[October 1769] (Adams Papers)
Last night I spent the Evening, at the House of John Williams Esqr. the Revenue officer, in...
10089[May 6. Wednesday. 1778.] (Adams Papers)
May 6. Wednesday. 1778. Franklin told Us one of his Characteristic Stories. A Spanish Writer of...
10090Saturday Jany. 11th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
A Rain. In one particular, I must confess the Americans have not acted with their usual Acuteness...
10091Resolution on Pardoning Power, 28 May 1777 (Adams Papers)
Resolved That the General, or Commander in Chief for the Time being Shall have full Power of...
1009227 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines, in Virgil. Wrote a little in Bolingbroke at noon and a little...
10093Sunday [2 March]. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wibirt.
10094Tuesday. June 17th. (Adams Papers)
Arose before the sun again. This is the last day. What, and who to day? Ebenezer Hayden was...
1009531 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
A rainy forenoon. Dined at Mr. Paines. A fair after noon . The Nature and Essence of the material...
10096Committee Report on Naming a Day of Prayer and Humiliation, 17 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
17 October 1770. MS not found. Draft prepared by a committee appointed 16 October composed of JA...
10097July 6th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard.
10098Asking for Prayers on the Death of a Grandchild, 1809 (Adams Papers)
John Adams with his Consort and their Family desire prayers that the death of a grandchild may be...
10099Adams’ Diary Notes on the Right of Juries: 1771. Feby. 12. (Adams Papers)
At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be...
10100Draft Articles on the Fisheries and Creditors, 28 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
That the Subjects of his Britannic Majesty and the People of the Said United States Shall...
101013 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Dind at the Colonels. Lodged at Put nam’s .
10102Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: New Hampshire Court Maritime, Portsmouth, 16 December 1777 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Sewall. 3 Causes sett forth. Resolve of Congress, 25 Novr. 1775. March 23d. 1776. Law of N....
10103Monday March 4. 1776. (Adams Papers)
Resentment is a Passion, implanted by Nature for the Preservation of the Individual. Injury is...
10104VIII. “Letters from a Distinguished American,” No. 10, 6 February 1782 (Adams Papers)
Let us proceed with our cool meditations. The author says, “Another argument much relied on by...
10105An Act for the Limitation of Personal Actions, 20 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
20 November 1770. MS , engrossed copy, signed by Hutchinson ( M-Ar ). Printed: Mass., Province...
10106Decr. 31st. 1766. (Adams Papers)
“Whatever tends to create in the Minds of the People, a Contempt of the Persons of those who hold...
10107XII. “Letters from a Distinguished American,” No. 12, Unpublished, 22 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
Before We dismiss these cool Thoughts it may not be amiss to Subjoin a few Reflections, upon the...
10108Memorandum Concerning an Invitation from the Neutral Maritime Confederacy to the United States of America, 12 August … (Adams Papers)
The Project in Some of the foreign Gazettes, of an Invitation from the neutral maritime...
10109June 26 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
June 26 Saturday.