You
have
selected

  • Author

    • Adams, John
    • Adams, John

  • Period

    • Colonial

Recipient

Sort: Frequency / Alphabetical

Show: Top 10 / Top 50

Dates From

Dates To

Search help
Documents filtered by: Author="Adams, John" AND Author="Adams, John" AND Period="Colonial"
Results 31-80 of 1,241 sorted by recipient
  • |<
  • <<
  • <
  • Page 1
  • >
  • >>
  • >|
No. Author Recipient Title Date Context
31 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1774 1774-10-09 I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond...
32 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 1762 – 1763 ≈1762-01-01 I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to...
33 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...
34 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1774 1774-09-29 Sitting down to write to you, is a Scene almost too tender for my State of Nerves. It calls up to...
35 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 1774-06-29 The Prophet of York has not prophecy’d in vain. There is in this Town and County a Laodiceanism...
36 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 1774-06-30 I have had a Curiosity to examine what could have been the Cause of Parson Lymans Affection to...
37 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 1774-06-29 I have a great Deal of Leisure, which I chiefly employ in Scribbling, that my Mind may not stand...
38 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1774 1774-07-02 I have concluded, to mount my Horse, tomorrow Morning at four, and ride to Wells to hear my old...
39 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams: Falmouth, 7 July 1774 1774-07-07 I am engaged in a famous Cause: The Cause of King, of Scarborough vs. a Mob, that broke into his...
40 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 July 1774 1774-07-05 I cant be easy without my Pen in my Hand, yet I know not what to write. I have this Morning heard...
41 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...
42 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1769 1769-06-29 I embrace with Joy, this Opportunity of writing you. Mr. Langdon, who is to be the Bearer, was so...
43 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 1774-07-06 Our J ustic e H utchinso n is eternally giving his Political Hints. In a Cause, this Morning,...
44 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...
45 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 July 1774 1774-07-09 I never enjoyed better Health in any of my Journeys, but this has been the most tedious, the most...
46 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...
47 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 September 1771 1771-09-17 There is no Business here —And I presume as little at Braintree. The Pause in the English Trade,...
48 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1774 1774-08-28 I received your kind Letter, at New York, and it is not easy for you to imagine the Pleasure it...
49 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...
50 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....
51 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1772 ≈1772-05-01 I take an opportunity by Mr. Kent, to let you know that I am at Plymouth, and pretty well. Shall...
52 Adams, John Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 19 September 1774 1774-09-19 I have received your pretty Letter, and it has given me a great deal of Pleasure, both as it is a...
53 Adams, John Otis, James Jr. Instructions of Boston to its Representatives in the … 1768-06-17 After the repeal of the late American Stamp Act, we were happy in the pleasing prospect of a...
54 Adams, John Otis, James Jr. Draft Instructions of Boston to its Representatives in … 1769-05-08 You have, once more received, the highest Testimony of the Confidence and Affection of your...
55 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...
56 Adams, John Bailey, Rev. Jacob From John Adams to the Reverend Jacob Bailey, January … ≈1756-01-01 I receiv’d your favour of Decr. 29. about 3 or 4 Days after it was wrote. The bearer left it at...
57 Adams, John Bernard, Francis Argument before Governor Bernard and the Council in … 1765-12-20 Mr. Adams Innumerable are the Calamities which flow from an Interruption of Justice. Necessity...
58 Adams, John Biddle, Edward From John Adams to Edward Biddle?, 12 December 1774 1774-12-12 I received your kind favour 16. Ulto with great Pleasure last Week at Cambridge. I rejoice at the...
59 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...
60 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...
61 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...
62 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Gazette, 14 October … 1765-10-14 I Han’t rit nothing to be printed a great while: but I can’t sleep a nights, one wink hardly, of...
63 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...
64 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) Sui Juris to the Boston Gazette, 23 May 1768 1768-05-23 Not many Years ago, were transmitted to the Public, thro’ the Channel of the Boston-Gazette, a...
65 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) II. To the Boston Gazette, 18 January 1773 1773-01-18 It has been said already, that the common law of England has not determined the judges to have an...
66 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) IV. To the Boston Gazette, 25 January 1773 1773-01-25 Another observation which occurred to me upon reading General Brattle’s first publication, was...
67 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VI. To the Boston Gazette, 8 February 1773 1773-02-08 Two or three anecdotes, were omitted in my last, for want of room, which may be here inserted, in...
68 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) IV. “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” … 1765-08-19 THUS accomplished were many of the first Planters of these Colonies. It may be thought polite and...
69 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VIII. To the Boston Gazette, 22 February 1773 1773-02-22 In all General Brattle’s researches hitherto, aided and assisted as he has been by mine, we have...
70 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VI. “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” … 1765-10-21 WE have been afraid to think. We have felt a reluctance to examining into the grounds of our...
71 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...
72 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) Clarendon to the Boston Gazette, 12 May 1766 1766-05-12 Seeing a Piece in the New Hampshire Gazette of last Friday, mentioning the Composition that was...
73 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) I. To the Boston Gazette, 11 January 1773 1773-01-11 GENERAL BRATTLE, by his rank, station and character, is intituled to politeness and respect, even...
74 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) From John Adams to the Freeholders and Other … 1774-12-10 Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
75 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) VII. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford, 26 January … 1767-01-26 Please to insert the following. We have often congratulated each other, with high satisfaction,...
76 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) XI. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford, 16 February … 1767-02-16 If we go back as far as the reign of Elizabeth, we find her, on one occasion, infringing on this...
77 Adams, John George III Petition of the Boston Town Meeting to King George III … 1769-04-04 Boston, 4 April 1769. MS not found. Printed Boston Gazette , 24 July 1769. At the town meeting of...
78 Adams, John Boston Gazette (newspaper) V. To the Boston Gazette, 1 February 1773 1773-02-01 One Thing at one Time . De Witt. The question is, in the present state of the controversy,...
79 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...
80 Adams, John Pym, William II. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym, 20 January … 1766-01-20 You and I have changed Sides. As I told you in my last, I can account for your Tergiversation,...