51From 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...
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...
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...
The cases of Wales and Ireland are not yet exhausted. They afford such irrefragable proofs, that...
Another Clause in the Charter, quoted by this Writer, contains the Power “to make Laws and...
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...
62VIII. (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...
Our rhetorical magician, in his paper of January the 9th continues to wheedle. “You want nothing...
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...
66From 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...
67From 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...
68From 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...
69From John Adams to Ebenezer Thayer Jr., 25 April 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have been so much absent upon the Circuits, since the melancholy news of your sons death that I...
70From 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...
71From 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...
72From 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...
73From John Adams to William Tudor, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have been so totally taken up, that I dont know whether I have acknowledged your Agreeble...
74From John Adams to William Tudor, 29 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am determined to amuse my self with my Pen, whenever I am at Leisure, that I may not rust, upon...
75From John Adams to William Tudor, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have just Time to thank you for your Letters by Mr Revere, and all other of your Favours. The...
76From John Adams to William Tudor, 24 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
In this Retreat I promise myself, much Pleasure from the Letters of my Friends in Boston,: and...
77From John Adams to William Tudor, 4 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have received from your Father, a Letter dated August the first, in answer to mine. It has been...
78Alexander McDougall to ?, 14 April 1775 (Adams Papers)
This covers a Letter, and accompanies a Budle, to our mutual Friend John Adams Esqr, which I...
79From 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...
80From 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...
81From 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...
82From 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...
83From John Adams to James Warren, 22 December 1773 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, the Governor called a Council at Cambridge. Eight Members met at Brattles. This no...
84From 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...
85From 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,...
86From John Adams to James Warren, 17 December 1773 (Adams Papers)
The Dye is cast: The People have passed the River and cutt away the Bridge: last Night Three...
87From 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...
88From 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...
89From 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...
90From John Adams to William Woodfall, 14 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I had the Pleasure of receiving your Favour of the twelfth March, Yesterday, for which I thank...
91Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Perhaps none of John Adams’ services to Massachusetts was so demanding and time-consuming as the...
92Credentials 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,...
93Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
While John Adams was writing his Novanglus letters, the town of Braintree met, on 6 March 1775,...
The Council of Plymouth, on the 19 day of March 1621, granted to John Mason, their Secretary, a...
95I. 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...
97IV. 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,...
98VI. 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....
99Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Continental Association and the Bill of Rights of the First Continental Congress turned...
100Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 26 October 1774 the Continental Congress adjourned, and its members returned home. John Adams...