4041[November] 1760. (Adams Papers)
Pater was in a very sociable Mood this Evening. He told 3 or 4 merry stories of old Horn. Old...
4042From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris, 22 November 1760 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: American Philosophical Society; copy: Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Share...
4043From Benjamin Franklin to John Canton, 24 November 1760 (Franklin Papers)
AL : The Royal Society Mr. Franklin’s Compliments to Mr. Canton, and is sorry to find that he...
4044Novr. 25th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Rode to the Iron Works Landing to see a Vessell launched. And after Launching went to smoke a...
40451760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10...
40461760. Novr. 26th Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Night before Thanksgiving.—I have read a Multitude of Law Books—mastered but few. Wood. Coke. 2...
40471760 Novr. 28th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
I have not read one Word of Law, this Day. But several Points, and Queries have been suggested to...
40481760. Novr. 29th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Read no Law.—An exclusive Property is certainly claimed and enjoyed, by private Persons, in Tombs...
4049Novr. 30th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Read no Law. Read Bolinbroke.
4050Cash Accounts, December 1760 (Washington Papers)
Contra Decr 10— By George Taylor’s Balle pr Acct 20/ —Club at Hughs’s 1/ £ 1. 1. 0 11— By hire of...
4051[December 1760] (Adams Papers)
I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had...
40521760. Decr. 1st. Monday. (Adams Papers)
I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had...
40531760. Decr. 2d. (Adams Papers)
Spent the Evening at Coll. Q.’s with Captn. Freeman. About the middle of the Evening Dr. Lincoln...
4054From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 2 December 1760 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 2 Dec. 1760. On 30 Oct. 1761 Fairfax wrote to GW :...
4055From John Adams to Samuel Holden Parsons, 5 December 1760 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical and legal family, to give you this...
4056From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 5 December 1760 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : New-York Historical Society I take this first Opportunity of congratulating you most...
4057Decr. 6th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende...
40581760. Decr. 8. (Adams Papers)
Began Machiavells Machiavell The illegible word begins with “D” but is not “Discourses.” JA ’s...
4059To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 12 December 1760 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 12 Dec. 1760. On 3 April 1761 GW wrote to Robert Cary &...
4060Decr. 14th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Hunt v. White. Complaint to Coll. Quincy—of a scandalous Lye, made and published to Hunts Damage....
40611760. Decr. 16th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Attended the Tryal all day, between Hunt and White before Coll. Quincy, at James Bracketts. What...
4062From Benjamin Franklin to Isaac Norris, [16] December 1760 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: American Philosophical Society Agreeable to what I wrote in mine of the 13th. I [have]...
40631760 Decr. 18th. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday spent in Weymouth, in settling the Disputes between old Thos. White and young Isaac...
40641760. Decr. 18. (Adams Papers)
Justice Dyer says there is more Occasion for Justices than for Lawyers. Lawyers live upon the...
40651760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday. (Adams Papers)
I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed my whole Life in the...
40661760. Decr. 22nd. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This day and Tomorrow are the last. I have but one Blank left that I can use.
4067To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 26 December 1760 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 26 Dec. 1760. On 3 April 1761 GW wrote to Robert Cary &...
40681760. Decr. 27th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Governor Bernards Speech to the two Houses, at the opening of the present sessions, has several...
4069To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 27 December 1760 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Mr. Strahan’s respectful Compliments to Dr. Franklin—called...
4070To Benjamin Franklin from Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 29 December 1760 (Franklin Papers)
MS not found; abstract reprinted from Thomas G. Morton and Frank Woodbury, The History of the...
4071To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Taunton, 29 December 1760 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Few documents could be more exasperating to editors trying...
4072Appendix E. Consolidated Inventory of Personal Property in the Estate, c.1761 (Washington Papers)
D , ViHi : Custis Papers. The manuscript of the consolidated inventory, in John Mercer’s hand, is...
4073Cash Accounts, 1761 (Washington Papers)
Cash For 1761 To Cash received of severals for Sundrys viz. Smiths work of Sundrys £ 7.15. 4 1/2...
4074Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1761 (Washington Papers)
A List of Lands for which I paid Quit-Rents in the Year 1761—to Tomison Elzey. In King George...
4075[January 1761] (Adams Papers)
The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
4076[January? 1761.] (Adams Papers)
I am an old Man, seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have spent my whole Life, a few...
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
4078Draft of a New Year’s Address to His Nieces, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
4079From John Adams to Peter Chardon, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
4080To George Washington from Richard Washington, 1 January 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Washington, 1 Jan. 1761. On 14 July 1761 GW wrote to Washington :...
4081Jany. 2nd. 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
40821760 [i.e. 1761]. Jany. 2nd. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Nathl. Bayley Administrator v. Nathll. Niles.—Plea in Abatement. Defendant lives on the Castle,...
4083To George Washington from John Moorey, 3 January 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Moorey, 3 Jan. 1761. On 3 April GW wrote to Moorey : “I receivd your...
4084Jany. 8th. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Last Monday, had a passionate Wrangle, with Eb. Thayer, before Major Crosby. He called me, a...
4085To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Stevenson, 13 January 1761 (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society It is long since I troubled you with a Letter, which I am...
4086To Benjamin Franklin from William Heberden, [before 20 March 1761] (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Dr. Heberden sends his compliments to Dr. Franklin and...
4087To Benjamin Franklin from William Heberden, 17 January 1761 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Dr. Heberden sends his Compliments to Dr. and Mr....
4088To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Eyre, 20 January 1761 (Franklin Papers)
AL : Library Company of Philadelphia Mr. Eyre’s Compliments to Mr. Franklin, and Mr. Moore’s Act...
4089To Benjamin Franklin from the Earl of Morton, 23 January 1761 (Franklin Papers)
AL : American Philosophical Society Lord Morton’s Compliments to Dr: Franklin, and desires the...
40901761. Tuesday Jany. 27th. (Adams Papers)
Last Fryday I borrowed of Mr. Gridley, the second Volume of the Corpus Iuris Canonici Notis...