Col Smith has not yet arrived altho we have been looking every hour for more than a week. he gave us notice that he should leave home upon the 6th. upon the 4th he was detained. we begin to fear, that either mrs Adams or her sister Nancy who was to accompany her, is taken Sick upon the journey. we will however hope the best,Quincy 4th
2From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
My first intelligence to you, is respecting your Sons, who are both in good health, and celebrated with me the 4th of July. first as the Birth day of American independence and next, as the Birth Day of Master John; .... some instances of it have been fatal in Boston Charlestown and cambridge port. in general it is healthy— Manufactors increase and flourish, but your Fathers Toast upon the 4th...
3From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...dissapointed in a visit which I expected to have made to them, before your Sister left me. I hope however to see them soon—We have not any Letters from you of a later date than the 4th March, and we wait in anxious expectation of hearing. I have written to you by various opportunities—and I could now fill many pages with subjects which ought to come to your knowledge of a political nature...
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits are so deprest, and your health so infirm.
I had a Letter from new orleans from your Brother dated in july. he was well and wrote to inquire after you, and to know the certainty of a marriage which he had learnd from a News paper—judge Adams has a Son about 4 Months old by the Name of Isaac Hull—
6From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 20 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
...in Sorrow, I wish to make you a Sharer with me in pleasure—and if the partiality of a Mother does not deceive me. I shall contribute to it, by one of the Letters which I inclose of the 4 March. the other, I sent you as a Specimen of the Duties and Labours of an American Minister at the Court of London I think if our House of Reps. had felt these labours, they would not have... ...upon the 4...
7From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
If you had Still been at St Petersburgh, and the war continued;—I Should not have expected, to have heard from you for 4 or 5 months at a time, but now feeling, as tho comparatively you were at the next door; and knowing your punctuality, hearing from the Country where you are, as late as the 4 July, to have, not a Line, is more than I can account for. Liverpool must be your channel of...
8From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
...and made her journey in 15 days accompanied by Caroline and John, dear good tender and affectionate Children every thing was done for her by them which the utmost anxiety and Solisitude could obtain. they arrived upon the 24 july—we calld in the Skill of the best physicians but the decree was gone forth—all aid was ineffectual and upon the ...I think of my own dear Son—4 or 5 years have...
9From Charles Francis Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
No. 4St. Petersburg July 15/3 1814
10From John Adams to Alexander Hill Everett, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4 1814
11From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4th. 1814
12From 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.
13From 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...
14From 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.
15John 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
16John 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....
17John 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.”
18John 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
19From 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...
20John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
, 31 July. no. 1558), 4:317–57.
21From 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...
22From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says
23From 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
24From 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...
25John 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.
26John 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;
27From 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
28From 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...
29From 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
30From 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....