271From Thomas Boylston Adams to Nathaniel Ruggles, 27 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Almost a twelvemonth Since I transmitted to the department of war, Section of bounty Lands, a claim of Charles Newcomb of Quincy, as legal representative of one Peter Ellino, a Frenchman who served during the revolutionary war, in a Company of which John Lillie was Capt: in Col John Crane’s Regiment, and received an honourable discharge under Genl Washington’s hand. The documents which I have...
272From Thomas Boylston Adams to Alicia Darrow Boylston, 3 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
Mr and Mrs Adams, Miss Cartwright, with Miss Adams & Brother accept with pleasure the polite invitation of Mrs Boylston, for tuesday evening. MHi : Boylston Family Papers.
273To John Adams from Thomas Boylston Adams, 8 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have reflected with mingled emotions of filial tenderness and respect upon the proposal you made me, yesterday, to take up my abode with you and to make one family of your’s and mine. As a proposal of such a nature, would not be proper on my part, it is my duty to consider it and to answer it, as made by you. And I prefer the freedom of epistolary communication on this occasion to oral,...
274From Thomas Boylston Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 9 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
As I am now favoured with a little leisure, I have been looking over my Agency Accounts for the last twelve years, in connection with our family interest in certain Lands, situate in the Town of Salem in the State of Vermont. I am desirous of exonerating myself from the charge of future Agency so far as it is susceptible of being transferred to those who are immediately interested, and I now...
275From Thomas Boylston Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 30 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 19th: instant I duly received with Mr: Whitelaw’s letter I have opened a correspondence with Mr Baxter an Ally of Brownington to whom Mr Whitelaw referred me, relative to the future disposal of my own and the lands under my care in Salem, and as you may wish to know the whole truth, however discouraging in relation to the property in which you have some interest, I send you...
276From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 21 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
There is in Boston, a Lemmon-tree of a peculiar kind, called the Sweet Lemmon, Sent to your Grandfather, by a gentleman from Malaga—and I expect it will be in the custody of our friend Mr J H Foster, by Tomorrow. Your Grandfather is desirous of presenting this plant to the Botanical garden, in Cambridge, and wishes you to call on Mr: Peck the Professor, with his compliments, tendering the Tree...
277From Thomas Boylston Adams to Samuel Frothingham, 29 September 1821 (Adams Papers)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Know all men by these Presents, that I Thomas Boylston Adams of Quincy in the County of Norfolk & Comth. of Massachusetts Esqr. have constituted, and hereby do constitute and appoint, Mr Samuel Frothingham, Cashier of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, at Boston, my true and lawful Attorney and Substitute; for me and in my name,...
278From Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
1. U.S. Register—for 1822— 1824/102 Memo—Thomas Boylston Adams—Junr, To be entered as a Candidate for admission as a Cadet at West Point— DNA : RG 94—Records Relating to the U.S. Military Academy.
279From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 23 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Under an expectation that after our personal interview at Cambridge, you would provide yourself with the Article of dress which you required, and a new Hat, at Mr Fairbanks’s, I have been less urgent to answer your Note which was received and acknowledged by your Aunt, in my absence from Quincy. I have now only to Say, that whatever Garments you or your brother may want, if not, like yours, of...
280From Thomas Boylston Adams to Francis Henderson, 18 April 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour, at the request of my Father, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th Instant, and to furnish you with a copy of his letter to you in answer to your’s of the 3d. of January last, the original of which has failed to reach you. He desires me to add, that the papers and documents which accompanied that letter have been filed, and laid away by one of his family who...