191John Adams to Richard Cranch, 29 June 1766 (Adams Papers)
I have been determined, a long Time, to write you by the first Opportunity that should present,...
192From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 2 September 1755 (Adams Papers)
I promised to write you an account of the scituation of my mind. The natural strength of my...
193John Adams to Richard Cranch, 23 September 1767 (Adams Papers)
I have but a few Moments, to congratulate you on the fresh Blessing to your Family.—Another fine...
194From John Adams to Richard Cranch, November – December 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree October–December? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,...
195From John Adams to William Crawford, October 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L....
196From John Adams to William Crawford, October – November 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October–November? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,...
197[A Letter to William Crawford Telling “How I Live,” October 1758.] (Adams Papers)
How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to...
198From John Adams to Charles Cushing, 3 April 1756 (Adams Papers)
I had the Pleasure, a few Days since, of receiving your favour of February 4th. I am obliged to...
199From John Adams to Charles Cushing, 19 October 1756 (Adams Papers)
I look upon myself obliged to give you the reasons that induced me to resolve upon the study and...
200[Letters to Three Friends on Studying Law, October–November 1758.] (Adams Papers)
My letters, for the future will come to you, not from a School House but from the Cell of an...
201From John Adams to Tristram Dalton, October 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L....
202Boston Town Meeting Committee to Dennys De Berdt, 23 October 1769 (Adams Papers)
In pursuance of the directions of the Town of Boston we have the honor to transmit you a Pamphlet...
203Boston Town Meeting Committee to Benjamin Franklin, 23 October 1769 (Adams Papers)
Printed: Franklin, Papers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B....
204III. To General Gage, 10 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Delegates from the Several Provinces in North America, now assembled in Congress, beg Leave...
205From 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...
206From John Adams to Joseph Hawley, 27 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
to leys Co declining the lend your kind h I therefore by the Favour of n, before we under take...
207Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Command of Castle William, 20 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives of...
2081773. July [19 or 26.] Monday. (Adams Papers)
You will hear from Us with Astonishment. You ought to hear from Us with Horror. You are...
209Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Command of Castle William, 23 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
23 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
210I. Reply of the House to Hutchinson’s First Message, 26 January 1773 (Adams Papers)
Your Excellency’s Speech to the General Assembly at the Opening of this Session, has been read...
211Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Seeking a Recess, 15 June 1770 (Adams Papers)
15 June 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives...
212III. Reply of the House to Hutchinson’s Second Message, 2 March 1773 (Adams Papers)
In your Speech at the Opening of the present Session, your Excellency express’d your Displeasure...
213Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting the Return of the General Court to Boston, 7 June 1770 (Adams Papers)
7 June 1770. MS ( M-Ar ), in an unidentified hand. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the...
214Reply to a Speech of Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson, 31 July 1770 (Adams Papers)
31 July 1770. MS , fair copy, in the hand of Samuel Adams ( MB ). Printed: Mass., House Jour....
215Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on his Speech to the General Court, 4 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
4 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
216Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Style of Enacting Laws, 6 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
6 November 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of...
I have heretofore intimated my intention, of pursuing the Tories, through all their dark...
Massachusettensis, whose pen can wheedle with the tongue of king Richard the third, in his first...
Such events as the resistance to the stamp act, and to the tea act, particularly the destruction...
220IX. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 27 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
Massachusettensis, in some of his writings has advanced, that our allegiance is due to the...
It has been often observed by me, and it cannot be too often repeated, that Colonization is Casus...
222XI. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 10 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
The cases of Wales and Ireland are not yet exhausted. They afford such irrefragable proofs, that...
A Writer, under the signature of Massachusettensis, has addressed you, in a series of papers, on...
The history of the Tories, begun in my last, will be interrupted for some time: but it shall be...
We are at length arrived at the paper, on which I made a few strictures, some weeks ago: these I...
226VIII. (cont.). To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 20 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
Wales was a little portion of the island of Great-Britain, which the Saxons were never able to...
227VII. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 6 March 1775 (Adams Papers)
Our rhetorical magician, in his paper of January the 9th continues to wheedle. “You want nothing...
228X. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 3 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
Give me leave now to descend from these general matters, to Massachusettensis. He says “Ireland...
We now come to Jersey and Guernsey, which Massachusettensis says “are no part of the realm of...
230From John Adams to John Lowell?, 15 December 1770 (Adams Papers)
Being generally Speaking a son of Liberty, notwithstanding the Cloud of Toryism that has lately,...
231From John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, 9 August 1770 (Adams Papers)
Boston9 August 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,...
232From John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, 31 December 1772 (Adams Papers)
Boston31 December 1772. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
2331772 Decr. 31. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
It is so long since I received your obliging Favour, that I am now almost ashamed to acknowledge...
We hear from Braintree that the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of that Town, legally assembled...
235From John Adams to Robert Treat Paine, 6 December 1759 (Adams Papers)
I was too much gratified with the Proposal you made me of writing to you, to neglect it long. For...
236From John Adams to Robert Treat Paine, 9 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
How does the Impeachment set upon the stomachs at Middle borough? Cant you steal a Moment in an...
237From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 26 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I had the Pleasure of receiving yours of the fourteenth Instant for which I am very...
238From John Adams to Samuel Holden Parsons, 5 December 1760 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical and legal family, to give you this...
239I. To J Philanthrop, 9 December 1766 (Adams Papers)
I confess I was in Hopes, that after the Repeal of the ever memorable Stamp Act, The People of...
240III. Humphrey Ploughjogger to Philanthrop, 5 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
Please to insert the following. In your first Treatise, I find these Words, “Whatever tends to...