1Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
...all but one, & they eat like Farmers— before Ten a clock our house was fill’d with Gentlemen & Ladies bad as the sleighing was, who all wanted refreshment. I had prepair’d a Side Table with Ham cake wine cider Brandy &C in the midst of all, our Stove caught a Fire & burnt with fury for an hour, we had not been able to make it take Fire this winter. the House was So...
2Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
...& got out again— I hope you my dear Sister are well of your cold, but your troubles must be great Essex junto what hast thou done? apostates all thou wilt rue the day in which thou aided Ham the little General & his crew to banish from the Seat of Goverment the Man who has done nothing for So many years but raise his country to the respectability which it now has among the nations of the...