1From John Adams to Alexander Hill Everett, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4 1814
2From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4th. 1814
3From John Adams to John Thornton Kirkland, 10 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have written to my Son and enclosed your Letter of the 4th. which will be the best recommendation of mr Bigalow that can be written.
4From John Adams to Richard Rush, 22 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
4. “Not Ingratitude but too much Love is the constant Fault of the People..... Look in the Journal of Congress 1774 for the Declaration of the Rights of the Colonies, and in the Journal of 1776. Month of May for a Resolution of Independence. Then consider Whether the Declaration of Independence of 4. July 1776 is any thing more than a juvenile declamation founded on those two Documents, Yet...
5From John Adams to Richard Rush, 31 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of the 18th of this month with your Oration on the 4th.
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 4. 1803; at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Aug. 1813 and so recorded in
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
...the complaint in the preface to the first volume of my defence. While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a Stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than 3 or 4 thousand years ago. What is the Reason? I say Parties and Factions will not Suffer, or permit Improvements to be made. As Soon as one Man hints at an improvement his Rival opposes it....
8John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 21 July 1813 and so recorded in letter of 24 July 1775 (not : Adams is quoting the Bible, 2 Corinthians 4.17, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
9John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 July 1813 and so recorded in : Adams Papers); dated 17 July 1813., 4th ed. (1848), 427–72, with the originals in
10From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 27 July 1809 (Adams Papers)
On the 27th of July, I sat out from Paris on a journey
to Amsterdam. I left Mr. Dana and Mr. Thaxter at Paris, who will regularly transmit to Congress, whatever
shall occur of importance to the United States to know....The remainder of this letter was filled with the declaration of the king of Sweden, of the 30th of July, and that
of the king of Denmark of the 8th of July, in favor of the...
11John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
, 31 July. no. 1558), 4:317–57.
12From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 9 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Art. 4th. In the ordonance of the thirtieth of April, his majesty has been
pleased to encourage his subjects to the national commerce, to advise
them to engage in maritime commerce, as much as possible, upon their own
account,...4. That these stipulations shall be considered, on one part and on the other, as permanent and as making a rule, whenever it shall come in question to determine the...
13From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says
14From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
4. Ditto, for the best relation in detail of the motives, causes, views, designs, and actions in
15From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 25 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
During my absence, which was nearly through the whole month of July, the following state papers were translated by the gentlemen of my family, whom I left in Holland, and transmitted to Congress, or to be kept for me to sign, according to my directions after my return....July, 1781—“The following is an extract from the registry of the Resolutions of their high Mightinesses the States General...
16John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 July 1813 and so recorded in 13.4.
17John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 July 1813 and so recorded in , 4 vols. (London, 1786;
18From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
A hint for your History. Lincoln and Strong were fellow Students in Major Hawleys Office at Northampton in 1773. 4. 5. Lincoln was the brightest Genius, the most Studious and the most learned, and the most enterprising. He distinguished himself by his Writings
19From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 18 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday was brought me one more bill drawn on Mr. Laurens, on the 6th July, 1780, for 550 guilders, No. 145. I have asked time to write to your excellency about this too, and shall wait your answer before I accept it..... 4, 1782, wrote to Dr. Franklin—“Yesterday was presented to me another bill of exchange for eleven hundred guilders, drawn on Mr. Laurens, 25th Feb. 1780. I have as usual...
20From John Adams to Thomas McKean, 6 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
4. That our officers and Men by Land are equal to any from Spain and Portugal
21From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
...the complaint in the preface to the first volume of my defence. While all other sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a Stand: little better understood; little better practiced now than 3 or 4 thousand Years ago. What is the Reason? I Say Parties and Factions will not Suffer, or permit Improvements to be made. As soon as one Man hints at an improvement his Rival opposes it....
22From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
remains of a beautiful Child of my Son Thomas, that died of the whooping Cough. Why was I preserved 3/4 of a Century, and that Rose cropped in the bud? I, almost dead at Top and in all my Limbs, and wholly Useless to myself and the World? Great Teacher tell me.
23From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 31 July 1809 (Adams Papers)
September 4th, wrote to Congress, news that the outward bound West-India fleet of 52 sail, and five East-Indiamen, on the 9th of August, fell in with the combined
French and Spanish fleets, about sixty leagues from Cape......4th, wrote to my correspondent in London, “I have only time to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 25th and 29th ult. which were very acceptable, and to enclose two...
24From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 27 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
The friendly and patriotic anxiety with which you enquire after my motives and reasons for making the proposition of the 4th of May, and for printing the memorial of the 19th of April, has put me upon recollecting the circumstances. If the series of my letters had arrived, I think the reasons would have appeared; but not with...4. There is not an effect of that memorial, suggested in this...
25From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 29 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
Passy, November 4, 1782.Sir—In answer to the letter you did us the honor to write, on the 4th. inst. we beg leave to repeat what we often said in conversation, viz. that the restoration of such of the estates of refugees, as have been confiscated, is impracticable, because they were confiscated by laws of...
26From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 1 March 1810 (Adams Papers)
...articles, proposed by the mediating courts, and desired me to make such observations upon them, as should occur to me. Accordingly I wrote a number of letters to his excellency, of the following dates: July 13th, inclosing an answer to the articles: 16, 18, 19, and 21st. I would readily send you copies of the articles and of those letters; but there are matters in them which had......July,...
27From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 4 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
This immortal declaration, of the 4th of July, 1776,
when America was invaded by an hundred vessels of war, and, according to estimates laid before parliament, by 55,000 of veteran troops, was not the effect of any sudden passion, or enthusiasm; but a...
28From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 3 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
This evening was brought me your dispatches to congress of 4th and 15th of September with all the papers enclosed, in very good order. I Shall send them by Doctor Dexter, by the way of France, as there is no prospect of any conveyance, for hence, sooner....
29From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 29 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
...in which his Majesty the King of Sweden,
as well as their High Mightinesses the States General of
the United Provinces have taken part and acceded, and
which has been signed respectively at St. Petersburg,
the 21st of July, 1780, and the 5th of January, 1781....and demanded them, in the declaration of the 8th of July, 1780, which he has caused to be presented, as well as that of Russia,...
30From John Adams to Richard Rush, 5 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
...think! No. The People in 1774, by the Right which Nature and Natures God had given them, confiding in original Right and original Power, in 1774 assumed Powers of Sovereignty. In 1775 they assumed greater Power, in July 4th. 1776 they assumed absolute, unlimited Sovereignty, in relation to other Nations in all Cases whatsoever: no longer acknowledging any Authority over them but that of God...