11From John Adams to James Warren, 24 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
:Warren-Adams Coll.;); docketed: “Mr. J: A Lettr. July 24. 1776.”23 July
12[July 1776] (Adams Papers)
A summary account of efforts, July 1775—June 1776, to arrive at a plan of confederation has been given above in a , 5:433. 546–556). On 22 July the printed draft was taken 25 July
S. Carolina claims to the S. Sea. So does North, Virginia, and Massachusetts Bay. S. Carolina says they have a Right to regulate the Trade with the Indians. If so 4 Colonies have all the Power of regulating Trade with the Indians. S.C. alone could not stand alone vs. the Indian Nations.
14[August 1776] (Adams Papers)
A momentous Question. Many difficulties on each Side. 4 larger, 5 lesser, 4 stand indifferent. V. M. P. M. make more than half the People. 4 may alwThe Germanic Confederation. The K. of Prussia has an equal Vote. The Helvetic Confederacy. It cant be expected that 9 Colonies will give Way to be governed by 4. The Safety of the whole depends upon the distinctions of Colonies.
A momentous Question. Many difficulties on each Side. 4 larger, 5 lesser, 4 stand indifferent. V. M. P. M. make more than half the People. 4 may alwThe Germanic Confederation. The K. of Prussia has an equal Vote. The Helvetic Confederacy. It cant be expected that 9 Colonies will give Way to be governed by 4. The Safety of the whole depends upon the distinctions of Colonies.
16John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The Post was later than usual to day, so that I had not yours of July 24 till this Evening. You have made me very happy, by the particular and favourable Account you give me of all the Family. But I dont understand how there are so many who have no Eruptions, and no..., 31 July 1809 (
17From John Adams to Daniel Hitchcock, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
, 7 July, James Reed, John Nixon, and William Prescott had been named on 1 Jan. 1776 colonels of the 2d, 4th, and 7th Continental Infantry regiments, respectively. Prescott, of course, was a hero at Bunker Hill. Reed and Nixon were named brigadier generals on 9 Aug. (
18From John Adams to Nathanael Greene, 4 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of the 14 of July is before me. I am happy to find your Sentiments concerning the Rewards of the Army, and the Promotion of Officers So nearly agreable to mine. I wish the general sense here was more nearly agreable to them....
19John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
, 4:234). For Congress’ action, Du Simitière’s sketches, and the long-delayed result, see On 4 July Congress had voted that Franklin,
20[Fryday August 16. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
and they maintained a friendly correspondence. On 24 July 1776 Parsons wrote r about 4 Years ago,” allegedly robbed and murdered by one Basil Bouderot in Nova Scotia (
21From John Adams to James Warren, 17 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
The captured Highlander Lt. Col. Archibald Campbell to Gen. Howe, 19 June 1776. Washington forwarded this letter to the congress, where it was read 2 July. It was then printed in the newspapers ( , 18 July). The text is also available in , 4th ser., 6:981–982.
22From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...Navy upon a more distinct, accurate and intelligible Plan, than any which I have seen before, among other Particulars which are new, is a Return of the State of the Hospital, in one Column the Number Admitted in July, in another the Number discharged, the Ballance remains by which it appears that between 4 and 500 got well in that Month, and has distinguished the Regiments to which they...
23[Tuesday August 20 1776.] (Adams Papers)
, Boston, 1820, 4 vols. Secret Journal of the Continental Congress, the texts of the Articles of Confederation successively proposed in July 1775 and in July and Aug. 1776. No motion by James Wilson proposing that “the debates should
24From John Adams to Henry Knox, 25 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Probably a reference to a contract made with Daniel and Samuel Hughes of Frederick, Md., on or about 19 July 1776 ( , 4:55–56, note 2; 5:593, 599).
25II. Committee Report on A Plan of Treaties, 27 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...draft is the absence of the names of the parties to the proposed treaty: “A” for France and “B” for the United States were substituted. The change was ordered on 20 July, when the congress resolved that the committee’s report should be printed “under the restrictions and regulations prescribed for printing the plan of confederation.” That is, only eighty copies were to be printed, one going...4
26From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 27 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of July 1. ought not to have lain by me, so long unanswered. But the old Apology of Multiplicity of Avocations is Threadbare., 4:177; 24:387;
27From John Adams to James Warren, 25 September 1776 (Adams Papers)
4:19–20The revision of the American articles was stimulated by a letter from Joseph Reed of 25 July delivered to the congress by
28[October 1776] (Adams Papers)
25 July July , 4, to Warren, 4 Sept. (
291776 Octr. 13. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
25 July July , 4, to Warren, 4 Sept. (
30[Account with Massachusetts as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, January–September 1777.] (Adams Papers)
4:4:
31John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 April 1777 (Adams Papers)
4 May, below. On the following 19 July Congress ordered the committee to publish the report and affidavits as a pamphlet, “and that 4,000 copies in English, and 2,000 in German, be struck off and distributed through the several States” (
32John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 June 1777 (Adams Papers)
I must write a Letter, in Behalf of Mr. Thaxter, to the Bar and Bench in Boston, in order to get him sworn, at July Court. of 4 June printed Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons’ letter to Washington, New Haven, 25 May, recounting Lt. Col. Return Jonathan Meigs’ destruction of an amphibious British foraging party at Sag Harbor, Long Island. Washington forwarded Parsons’...
33From John Adams to Nathanael Greene, 7 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
These letters, written from camp at Middle Brook, each dated 1 July, were similar enough to provoke suspicions of collusion. Each sought confirmation of a report (or information) that the congress had granted Du Coudray a commission as major general effective 1 Aug. 1776, a date that would have......at the congress on 3 July, brought an immediate and coldly hostile response: a...
34From John Adams to James Warren, 7 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
I am weary enough of Complaints, concerning Navy Matters. I do all I can in public and private to stimulate but all in vain. The Commissions were never sent untill 4 or 5 days ago by Mr. Sherman.:Warren-Adams Coll.); docketed: “J. A Lettr July 1777.”
35John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
We have had no News from Camp for 3 or 4 days. Mr. How, by the last Advices, was maneuvring his Fleet and Army in such a Manner, as
36John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
The last Letters from me which you had received, were of the 2d. 4th. and 8th. June. Here were 24 days between the 8th. of June and the 2d. July the date of yours. How this could happen I know not. I have inclosed you the Newspapers and written you a Line, every Week, for several Months past. If there is one Week passes without bringing you...
37John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 27 July 1777 (Adams Papers)
4. William of Nassau, Prince of Orange.21 July
38John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Favour of July 23, came by the Post, this Morning. It revives me, to hear of your Health, and Welfare, altho I shall be, and am disappointed of a Blessing, which I hoped to enjoy. But this is......, and presses” alluded to in the preceding letter. On 30 July and 1 Aug. respectively, Congress had ordered St. Clair and Schuyler back to Washington’s headquarters, and on the latter...
39From John Adams to James Warren, 12 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
Two letters from Schuyler, one to Washington dated 1 Aug. and one to Hancock of 4 Aug., were read in the congress on 7 and 11 Aug., respectively. The pessimism of both is marked. The general described an “unaccountable panic” among troops on the march whenever a few Indians shot at them... ...he expected others to leave in a few days. Of his 4,000 Continental men, one-third were Negroes, boys,...
40From John Adams to William Gordon, 31 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
, 24 July, note 4