1From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
Occupation for a considerable Squadron of the British Navy for a considerable part of the Campaign. 4 between 29 May and 14 Aug. under the pseudonym “Leonidas,” particularly that of 4 July, which dealt with naval affairs.
2From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
letter of 4 June
3From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
...distinguished different Families of the Same Race. for Gens signified the whole and Familia a Part.— Those of the Same Gens were called Gentiles, (whence our Word Genteel and Gentleman)— Those of the Same Family Agnati. 4 The Agnomen, like Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asiaticus, has been mentioned before.— Julius Signified the Gens and Cæsar the Familia.letter of 21 July
4From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
...Washington with Franklin and Jefferson, I mean only in the Article of silence. He had integrity and public Virtue, as I seriously believe. Thus much for your Letter of the 26 of June. that of the Eleventh of July might be answered by a Volume....Employment. He must be a navy officer. He is an Enthusiast for it, and I wish he may be an Admiral. I drank a Glass of wine with him in the 4th...
5From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
...a near Relation and most intimate Friend of ours in Boston had a Son of most promising Hopes educated at the University and the Bar, an Officer in a Cadet Corps of Militia, in the unprecedent heat of the 4th of July got a Fever that left him in a Consumption of which he died
6From 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
7From 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
8From 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.
9From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
N.B. in 1813. The War till the 4th. July 1776, was carried by Congress as well as by all the States upon this Principle, or rather this distinction. It was like our ...you to return to me. I have not committed you. Neither Gerry nor Langdon know that you suggested this Investigation. November 4. 1775. General Heath in his Memoirs. p. 30. Says, “The Privateers fitted out by the Americans,...