251From John Adams to Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 (Adams Papers)
You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) some Expressions of my...
252Tuesday Aug. [5 or 12] 1766. (Adams Papers)
Satt out with my Wife for Salem—dined at Boston—drank Tea at Dr. Simons Tufts’s at Medford...
2531760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10...
25429 Fryday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clear morning. Heard the valedictory oration, pronounced, By Oliver. 2 o Clock set...
In the Case of Jane Dotey vs. Manuel Essane heard and adjudged at the Court of General Sessions...
256Decr. 6th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende...
257From 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...
258[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...
259Fryday [15 February]. Evening. (Adams Papers)
Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts....
260From John Adams to James Warren, 9 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
It is a great Mortification to me, to be obliged to deny my self the Pleasure of a Visit to my...
261[June 1771] (Adams Papers)
Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he...
262John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am very well yet:—write to me as often as you can, and send your Letters to the Office in...
263John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I...
By the Stat ute of Wm. Prisoner intituled to a Copy of the Indictment 5 days and of the Panel 2...
265Genealogical Note, 7 August 1773 (Adams Papers)
Mr Henry Adams before the year 1640, I cant Say how long before, came from Bristol in England,...
J. Quincy . We had done nothing but what was justifiable by the Laws of our Country. J. Whitworth...
26722 Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
A fair morning. Fresh and lively Air. Drank Tea and supped at Mrs. Paine’s. Presumably Sarah...
John Wentworth Esqr. Surveyor General of all and singular his Majestys Woods on the Continent of...
269Boston. August 10. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
The committee for the Congress took their departure from Boston, from Mr. Cushing’s house, and...
27026 Monday. (Adams Papers)
A sharp piercing Air. Sat out for Uxbridge, arrived 2’o clock.
2713 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted at Gardiners. This morn the Weather clear’d away. As warm and brilliant as May. Kept...
272[August 1761] (Adams Papers)
I am creating Enemies in every Quarter of the Town. The Clarks hate. Mother Hubbard, Thayer,...
273[August 1770] (Adams Papers)
I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,...
274Wednesday. March 19th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Home.
2751773. April 7th: Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
At Charlestown. What shall I write?—say?—do? Sterility, Vacuity, Barrenness of Thought, and...
276John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am extreamly afflicted with the Relation your Father gave me, of the Return of your Disorder. I...
277Sunday April 27th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Smith. In the Evening, I had a great deal of Conversation with Ezekiel Price, Yesterday...
This Sodality has given rise to the following Speculation of my own, which I commit to writing,...
279[August 1762] (Adams Papers)
Reading, Thinking, Writing—have I totally renounced all three? Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur...
Shakespeare, in the Character of Lady Mackbeth, and of Gertrude, the Wife of old Hamlet, and...
2811772. Feby. 2d. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Have omitted now for 3 months almost to keep any “Note of Time or of its Loss.” Thomas Newcomb...
282John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 (Adams Papers)
By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give...
Sewall, Attorney General. One of the highest Crimes, agravated as it was his Wife. Inquisition....
2841772. Decr. 23. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Major Martin at the Office. He is very gracious with the first Man in the Province. The Governor...
2851771. Sunday, June 9th. (Adams Papers)
Feel a little discomposed this Morning. Rested but poorly last night. Anxious about my...
286From John Adams to William Tudor, 29 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wish it was in my Power, to write you any Thing for the Relief of your Anxiety, under the...
2871771. Thurdsday June 13th. (Adams Papers)
Remarkable, the Change of Thoughts, and feelings, and Reasonings which are occasioned by a Change...
288Fryday. July 5. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Cadwallader Ford came to me this Morning, and congratulated me on the Verdict for Freeman.—Sir,...
2891774. Sunday. Sept. 25. (Adams Papers)
Went in the Evening to Quaker Meeting and afterwards went to Supper at Stephen Collins’s.
290[November 1766] (Adams Papers)
Sett off, with my Wife for Salem. Stopped 1/2 Hour att Boston, cross’d the Ferry, and at 3 O...
2911774 Saturday. Octr. 15. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Wests with the Rutledges and Mr. Middleton. An elegant House, rich furniture, and a...
292April 4th. 1767. (Adams Papers)
Suits generally Spring from Passion. Jones vs. Bigelow, Cotton and Nye arose from Ambition. Jones...
2931774. Wednesday. Sept. 28. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. R. Penn. A magnificent House, and a most splendid Feast, and a very large Company....
2941774. Sunday. Novr. 6. (Adams Papers)
Went all day to hear Mr. Baldwin a Presbyterian Minister at Kingston. We put up at Scotts. Mr....
29528 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Maccarty, spent the Evening at Coll. Chandlers, in Conversation concerning Lands and...
2961774 Tuesday. Oct. 18. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Stephen Collins’s.
297[March? 1761.] (Adams Papers)
Parson Smith’s Parsonage. Vid. 6th. Wm. & M. C. 5. Page 60.—Charter Page 6th &c. from Index to...
29817 [i.e. 18] Sunday. (Adams Papers)
A Stormy Day. For these 3 days past there has been a severe N.E. Storm. Heard Mr. Maccarty. Spent...
299[April 1767] (Adams Papers)
Suits generally Spring from Passion. Jones vs. Bigelow, Cotton and Nye arose from Ambition. Jones...
3008 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Went a Shooting with Mr. Putnam. Drank Tea with him and his Lady.