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...
3To John Adams from William Tudor, 4 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
The interesting Advices we rec’d here on Sunday, and which the Papers will acquaint You, have had...
4To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 4 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
At the same time that I make my Gratful Acknowledgment, for the instructive sentiments and...
Give me leave now to descend from these general matters, to Massachusettensis. He says “Ireland...
6From 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...
7To John Adams from Samuel Swift, 31 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
I was in hopes you would have just called as you went out of Town, more especially as I Asked the...
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...
10[Monday March 18.] (Adams Papers)
Monday March 18. Order of the Day again. Mr. Harrison reported no Resolution.
11To John Adams from John Waite, 18 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
A sacred regard to the american association on the one hand and an earnest desire not to injure...
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...
14From 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...
15From 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...
16To John Adams from James Warren, 15 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
With some difficulty I have Obtained the Inclosed. Some scruples which you have not resolved, and...
It has been often observed by me, and it cannot be too often repeated, that Colonization is Casus...
18To John Adams from Samuel Swift, 13 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have Read a specimen of Nov Anglus as of this day and am not a little in Raptures with it,...
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...
22To John Adams from James Warren, 20 February 1775 (Adams Papers)
I need not tell you that I was greatly disappointed and Chagrin’d at not seeing you at Cambridge...
Massachusettensis, whose pen can wheedle with the tongue of king Richard the third, in his first...
24From 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...
26Credentials 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...
28To John Adams from Samuel Swift, 30 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
(a Memento for Tyrants as A man has it) Seting before a warm fire totus Solus with a Tankard of...
29To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 30 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
The very polite introduction to yours of Jan 3d I Consider not only as A Complement far beyond...
A Writer, under the signature of Massachusettensis, has addressed you, in a series of papers, on...
31From 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...
32To John Adams from James Warren, 15 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I Admire the Notes and Resolves of the Maryland Convention. They Breath a Spirit of Liberty and...
33To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 13 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I Wrote to you the 24th of Septr last in answer to your Obliging favor of the first of August, at...
34From 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,...
35From 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...
36[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...
37[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...
38From 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...
39To John Adams from James Warren, 19 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
It always gives me pleasure to hear of the Existence and Health of my Friend and his Family and...
Virginia, Chesterfield County, 17 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston...
Virginia, 16 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston Port Bill, p. 66);...
42From 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...
43From 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...
44Report 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...
46[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...
471774. Wednesday. Novr. 9. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Reeve’s of Sudbury.
481774. Tuesday. Novr. 8. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Coll. Henshaws of Leicester. Dined at Woodburns of Worcester. Furnival made the...
491774. Monday. Novr. 7. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Rice’s of Brookfield. Major Foster came to see us, and gave us an Account of the...
501774. Sunday. Novr. 6. (Adams Papers)
Went all day to hear Mr. Baldwin a Presbyterian Minister at Kingston. We put up at Scotts. Mr....