1From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 5 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
If the Orators on the 4th. of July, really wish to investigate the principles and Feelings which produced the Revolution, they ought to Study this Pamphlet and Dr Mayhew’s Sermon on Passive Obedience and Non Risistance, and all the documents of those 9 hr days.......be made for the good of the People, and not the People for them. 4. No Government has a Right to make Hobby Horses, Asses and...
2From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 17 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
4th The people that evacuate from us to Barbadoes, and the other West-India plantations, as was hinted, do commonly work one Englishman to ten blacks; and if we kept the trade of our said plantation entirely to England...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, 19 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour from Richmond of July 4 I cannot write long letters.
4To James Madison from John Adams, 25 July 1818 (Madison Papers)
, 2d ed. (4 vols.; London, 1768).
5From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 28 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
your kind Letter of July 4th. ought to have been answered sooner. my apology would be long and tedious.—
6From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am Informed by your Son—my dear Name Sake—that you propose to be here by the first of July—I pray you to be sure—that you arrive hear before that day.—bring your Husband with you—If the President can wander round the Universe and leave all the business of the Public to two or three Of...I hope your Husband and yourself will be here the 4th of July—and on the Commencement day at Cambridge, and...
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Aug. 1819 and so recorded in , 21 July. TJ’s letter of 9 July 1819
8From John Adams to William Bentley, 21 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
4. Is it possible that Such Resolutions Should have escaped the vigitant Attention, the Seralinizing penetrating Minds of Patrick Henry, R. H. Lee, Mr. Jefferson, Mr Gadsden, Mr Rutledge, Mr Jay Mr Sherman, Mr Samuel... Adams? Haud credo. I cannot believe that they were known to one Member of Congress on the 4th. of July 1776.The Declaration of Independence, made by Congress on the 4th. of July...
9From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
Ditto from 3rd Febry 1777 to 7th July 1777.4.
10From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
...most amiable gentleman, whose name is Vanderkemp; another from Mr Jefferson; another from Dr Rush; and others from some other persons unnecessary to be named at present. It would have given me great pleasure to have celebrated the 4th. of July with the government and people in Boston, but palsey nerves, and purblind eyes, feeble knee