1From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
Passy, 9 July 1778. 4:149–150
2From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry?, 27 August 1779 (Adams Papers)
to Gerry of 9 July (vol. 4:149–150
4:192–193John Dickinson was the author and chief supporter of the second petition to George III that the congress agreed to on 5 July 1775, but which went unanswered by the King ( ’s opinion of the petition, his disagreement with Dickinson, and the genesis of his reference to Dickinson as a “piddling genius” in his letter of 24 July 1775 to James Warren, see
4From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 2 July 1782 (Adams Papers)
The News, must be divided into that which respects War, and that which respects Peace. The War in Europe is wholly maritime. The combined Fleet Sailed from Cadiz, the 4. June, and has not been heard of Since...., was to be joined by a squadron from Brest under La Motte-Picquet in early July. Its objective was to block the mouth of the English Channel and thereby positioning itself to...
5From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 14 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
in 1782. The others were of 2 July and 19 Aug. (vol. The 12 July 1781 revocation of
6From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 6 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
Gerry.”; endorsed: “Paris Letter / His Excellency J / Adams Esq July / 2., and note 4, below.
7From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 28 April 1785 (Adams Papers)
replies specifically to those objections in the first two numbered paragraphs that follow, but see also his response to the charge that he was possessed of a “weak passion” in the fourth paragraph below, and note 4....in June and July 1781. In the first instance his 1779 commission to conclude an Anglo-American peace treaty was superseded by the creation of a joint commission composed of...
8From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 13 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
of July.—Gerry’s 14 July letter
9From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 14 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
.... If these volumes appear to you as they do to me, how can We wonder at the total Ignorance and Oblivion of the Revolution, which appears every where in the present Generation. All the Boston Orations on the 4th. of July that I have ever read or heard contain not So much of “the Manners and Feelings and Principles which lead to the Revolution as these two Volumes of Gazettes and Journals.
10From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4th. 1814