1From John Adams to William Tudor, 28 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I received your obliging Letter at New York, and it was peculiarly acceptable to me and my...
2To John Adams from Edward Hill, 4 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you a fortnight ago by Mr. Sullivan, since which almost every day has produced some new...
3Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Perhaps none of John Adams’ services to Massachusetts was so demanding and time-consuming as the...
4Credentials 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,...
5To John Adams from James Warren, 3 January 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Received your last and am to Acknowledge that the Contents of it gave me great pleasure. I have...
6Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
While John Adams was writing his Novanglus letters, the town of Braintree met, on 6 March 1775,...
7To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, August 1774 (Adams Papers)
“We must fight , if we can’t otherwise rid ourselves of British taxation, all revenues, and the...
8To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 11 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
A Very long and uninterrupted course of sickness has hitherto prevented me the pleasure of...
The Council of Plymouth, on the 19 day of March 1621, granted to John Mason, their Secretary, a...
10To 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...
11From 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...
12To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 4 March 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Letters you sent for Mrs. Macaulay directed, under Cover, for me, were put into the Post...
13I. Heads of Grievances and Rights, 9 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Whereas since the Accession of the present King, Parliament has claimed a Power of Right to bind...
The Committee appointed to consider relating to Minute Men offerd their report as follows. The...
15To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral...
16IV. A State of the Title of the Massachusetts-Bay, March – May 1774 (Adams Papers)
A State of the Title of the Massachusetts-Bay, to Lands between Connecticutt and Hudsons Rivers,...
17To 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,...
18To 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...
19From John Adams to Alexander Wedderburn, 25 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
Your Defence of Messrs. Hutchinson and Oliver before the Lords Committee of his Majestys privy...
20III. To General Gage, 10 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Delegates from the Several Provinces in North America, now assembled in Congress, beg Leave...
21From John Adams to Josiah Quincy Jr., 18 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your kind Letter, and to thank you for it, and then Seal my...
22From 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...
23VI. An Examination of the Claim of New York, May 1774 (Adams Papers)
1753. In the year 1753 a Committee of the Council of N York in a Report upon the Petition of Mr....
24From 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...
25From 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...
26To John Adams from Benjamin Kent, 23 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Our enemies, for their own further security, as well as to bring the town into the most complete...
27From 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...
28To 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...
29To John Adams from Mary Nicolson, 26 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment been enformd that You and a Number of Worthy Gentlemen, have been Honorably...
30Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Continental Association and the Bill of Rights of the First Continental Congress turned...
31Samuel Swift to Thomas Cushing, 2 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Since I wrote you, Jealousies seem to rise higher between the People and the Army. It has been...
32Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 26 October 1774 the Continental Congress adjourned, and its members returned home. John Adams...
33From John Adams to James Warren, 25 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am very sorry, I had not the Pleasure of seeing you, after your Return from Salem: as I wanted...
34Marginalia in Letters to . . . The Earl of Hillsborough from Governor Bernard, June 1774 (Adams Papers)
A few Days before the Election in May 1774 Lt General Gage, arrived at Boston Governor of this...
I have heretofore intimated my intention, of pursuing the Tories, through all their dark...
36To John Adams from Richard Cranch, 15 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I hear that a letter from one P——s, a clergyman in Connecticut, has been intercepted, and that an...
Enquire who is the Author? Whether a Sandemanian, a Quaker, or an high Churchman? The Character...
38Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government, 10 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
39To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 28 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
We yesterday received your Letter directed to us, with those for Braintree, immediately on the...
40From John Adams to James Warren, 17 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Among many other agreable Things, which occurr’d to me on my Return from my eastern Circuit, I...
41Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the spring of 1774, when Adams was kept busy helping to draft the impeachment articles against...
Massachusettensis, whose pen can wheedle with the tongue of king Richard the third, in his first...
43To John Adams from James Warren, 16 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Recd yours of the 18th Sepr with A pleasure and satisfaction that render my Negligence in not...
44From 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...
45From John Adams to John Tudor, 23 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
You will be Surprised I believe, to receive a Letter from me, upon a Matter which I have so...
46Report of the Committee on Proposals and Ways and Means, 30 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
30 May 1774. Report of the Committee on Proposals and Ways and Means. No Dft or minutes found....
Such events as the resistance to the stamp act, and to the tea act, particularly the destruction...
Massachusettensis, in some of his writings has advanced, that our allegiance is due to the...
Virginia, Chesterfield County, 17 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston...
50From John Adams to James Warren, 25 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
There never was I believe, a greater Contrast, than I perceive, between the Noise and Hurry of...