1From John Adams to United States Senate, 21 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
William Pitt Beers Esqr of Albany to be Attorney of the United States for the district of Albany
2From John Adams to United States Senate, 17 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
John Beers
3From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
John Beers
4John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
...and no sooner duke of Orleans, than king of France, and his wife consequently Queen— This process you see is at least as short as the counter-process of Hamlet, by which imperial Caesar is metamorphosed into a beer-barrel’s bung.—
5Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Dennie Jr., 16 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
small beer
6To John Adams from Nathan Beers, 5 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
Nathan Beers
7To George Washington from Landon Carter, 1 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
...carelessly said “he could guess”—He gave such a predominence to the salt, as to ocassion much grimace and loud complaints of the nauseous dose—The immediate effects were that the Patient wished for small beer, & had a relish for the beverage. The texture of the viscuous coat, which before had lined her stomack, so as to prevent the approach of the medicines to act was now broken—amendment...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Cobbett, 5 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
drank a full pot of beer TO THE HEALTH OF KING GEORGE
9To John Adams from William Cooper, 13 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
...the belief that your Excellency is willing to receive all information relating to the suitableness of persons for any employment which is vacant—we have taken the liberty of stating our belief that William Pitt Beers Esquire of the City of Albany is a proper person to fill the office of Attorney and that James Dole Esqr—of Troy is a proper person for the office of Marshall of said District...
10William Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
.... He was formerly a roman Catholic, but was excommunicated for his infidelity, and is now as open in his atheistical, as in his jacobinic principles. He is a Justice of peace, and gets his living by brewing beer and distilling Whiskey, with a Capital furnished by M