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501 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763 1763-02-14 Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.—I intended to have been at...
502 Adams, John Boston Evening Post (newspaper) I. Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Evening-Post, 3 … 1763-03-03 Thes fue Lins cums to let you no, that I am very wel at prisent, thank God for it, hoping that...
503 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 1763-04-20 Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity...
504 Adams, John Boston Evening Post (newspaper) III. Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Evening-Post … 1763-06-20 I Arnt book larnt enuff, to rite so polytly, as the great gentlefolks, that rite in the...
505 Adams, John [July 1763] 1763-07-18 Among the Votaries of Science, and the numerous Competitors for Fame and Estimation, Utility...
506 Adams, John [Draft of an Essay on Agriculture in the Boston … 1763-07-18 Among the Votaries of Science, and the numerous Competitors for Fame and Estimation, Utility...
507 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) IV. “U” to the Boston Gazette, 18 July 1763 1763-07-18 Among the Votaries of Science, and the numerous Competitors for literary Fame, Choice and...
508 Adams, John Adams, Zabdiel From John Adams to Zabdiel Adams, 23 July 1763 1763-07-23 Your kind Letter I received, and after an Interval occasioned by Commencement, am seated to...
509 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, August 1763 1763-08-01 Germantown is at a great Distance from Weymouth Meeting-House, you know; The No. of Yards indeed...
510 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) V. “U” to the Boston Gazette, 1 August 1763 1763-08-01 Man , is distinguished from other Animals, his Fellow-Inhabitants of this Planet, by a Capacity...
511 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 15 August 1763 1763-08-15 The Disappointment you mention was not intended, but quite accidental. A Gentleman, for whom I...
512 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VI. “U” to the Boston Gazette, 29 August 1763 1763-08-29 My worthy and ingenious friend, Mr. J , having strutted and foamed his hour upon the stage and...
513 Adams, John VII. An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, with the … 1763-08-29 My Brother J and my self have been very liberal of our Promises to the Publick and very Sparing...
514 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VIII. “U” to the Boston Gazette, 5 September 1763 1763-09-05 It seems to be necessary for me, (notwithstanding the declaration in my last) once more to...
515 Adams, John Boston Evening Post (newspaper) IX. Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Evening-Post, 5 … 1763-09-05 It is a pleasant Thing to see ones Works in print.—When I see the news, with my letter int about...
516 Adams, John [Marriage and Law Practice, 1764-1765] 1764-01-01 In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and...
517 Adams, John Quincy, Samuel From John Adams to Samuel Quincy, 2 January 1764 1764-01-02 Braintree2 January 1764. RC ( MHi :Misc. Bound Coll.). John Adams requests “Brother Quincy” to...
518 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 April 1764 1764-04-07 For many Years past, I have not felt more serenely than I do this Evening. My Head is clear, and...
519 Adams, John Tufts, Cotton John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 9 April 1764 1764-04-09 I have nothing to do at present but to play with my Pen. I have long thought with Horace in his...
520 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 11 April 1764 1764-04-11 The Room which I thought would have been an Hospital or a Musaeum, has really proved a Den of...
521 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 11 April 1764 1764-04-11 This is the last Opportunity I shall have to write you from Braintree for some Weeks. You may...
522 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 12 April 1764 1764-04-12 I have Thoughts of sending you a Nest of Letters like a nest of Basketts; tho I suspect the...
523 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 13 April 1764 1764-04-13 We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins....
524 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 April 1764 1764-04-14 The Deacon and his Three Children are arrivd and the Operation has been performed, and all well....
525 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 17 April 1764 1764-04-17 Yours of April 15th. this moment received. I thank You for it—and for your offer of Milk, but We...
526 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 18 April 1764 1764-04-18 Three of our Company, have now the Small Pox upon them, Wheat, Badger, and Elderkin. We have seen...
527 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 26 April 1764 1764-04-26 Many have been the particular Reasons against my Writing for several days past, but one general...
528 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 May 1764 1764-05-04 Returned from a Ramble in Town which began at 10 in the Morning. Dined with my Friend S. Adams...
529 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 1764-05-07 I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever...
530 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 8 May 1764 1764-05-08 This Morning received yours by Mr. Ayers. I can say nothing to the Contents at present, being...
531 Adams, John Report of the Braintree Committee for Repairing … 1764-05-21 The Committee appointed to Consider of Some Plan for Repairing the High ways having taken the...
532 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 1764-09-30 I have this Evening been to see the Girl.—What Girl? Pray, what Right have you to go after...
533 Adams, John [The Stamp Act, 1765] 1765-01-01 This Year 1765 was the Epocha of the Stamp Act.... I drew up a Petition to the Select Men of...
534 Adams, John 1765. Jany. 24th. Thurdsday. 1765-01-24 Soon after I got to Boston, at Jany. Court Mr. Fitch came to me upon Change, and told me, that...
535 Adams, John Thurdsday January 24th. 1765. 1765-01-24 I rode to Boston on Purpose to meet at Fitchs. Gridley came. We read the 3 first Titles of the...
536 Adams, John Thurdsday. Jany. 31st. 1765-01-31 The snowy Weather prevented me from going to Dudleys. The Sodality however met and read the two...
537 Adams, John [February 1765] 1765-02-01 This Sodality has given rise to the following Speculation of my own, which I commit to writing,...
538 Adams, John [Fragmentary Draft of a Dissertation on Canon and … 1765-02-01 This Sodality has given rise to the following Speculation of my own, which I commit to writing,...
539 Adams, John Thurdsday. February 21st. 1765. 1765-02-21 At Boston, entertained the Sodality at Blodgets. We were never in better Spirits, or more Social....
540 Adams, John Report of the Braintree Town Committee to Lay Out the … 1765-04-01 The Committee who was directed to take a Plan and make Division of the North Commons (so called)...
541 Adams, John I. Fragmentary Notes for “A Dissertation on the Canon … 1765-05-01 Liberty, that has been compelled to skulk about in Corners of the Earth, and been everlastingly...
542 Adams, John [June 1765] 1765-06-07 £ s d June 7th. 1765. Paid at Goodwins for Dinners 0: 10: 0 Paid at Lovejoys for Lodging Suppers...
543 Adams, John [Accounts on the Eastern Circuit, 7–12 June 1765.] 1765-06-07 £ s d June 7th. 1765. Paid at Goodwins for Dinners 0: 10: 0 Paid at Lovejoys for Lodging Suppers...
544 Adams, John [1765–1767] 1765-07-14 On the 14 day of July of this Year 1765, Mrs. Adams presented me with a Daughter and in her...
545 Adams, John [August 1765] 1765-08-01 I hope it will give no offence, to enquire into the Grounds and Reasons of the strange Conduct of...
546 Adams, John [August 1765] 1765-08-01 Hannah Place vs. Atwood. Introduced into the family at 13. Constant Understanding that she should...
547 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Referees’ Hearing: Chilmark … 1765-08-01 Hovey . Justifies by Warrant. Generality. Turning Point, legality of Warrant. Void in itself....
548 Adams, John II. Draft of “A Dissertation on the Canon and the … 1765-08-01 “Ignorance and Inconsideration,” (says Dr. Tillotson) “are the two great Causes of the Ruin of...
549 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) III. “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” … 1765-08-12 “IGNORANCE and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.” This is an...
550 Adams, John August 15th. 1765. 1765-08-15 I hope it will give no offence, to enquire into the Grounds and Reasons of the strange Conduct of...