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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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8341 | Quincy, Josiah Jr. | Josiah Quincy’s Argument for the Defense: 3 December … | 1770-12-03 | Monday 3 December , NINE o’ Clock, the Court met according to adjournment, and proceeded. May... | |
8342 | Adams, John | Adams’ Argument for the Defense: 3–4 December 1770 | ≈1770-12-03 | May it please your Honours and you Gentlemen of the Jury, I am for the prisoners at the bar, and... | |
8343 | Paine, Robert Treat | Paine’s Argument for the Crown: 4–5 December 1770 | ≈1770-12-04 | May it please &c. It now remains to close this Cause on the part of the Crown, a cause, which... | |
8344 | UNKNOWN | Adjournment: 4–5 December 1770 | ≈1770-12-04 | TUESDAY 4 December , half past FIVE o’Clock, p.m. (Mr. Paine not having gone through his... | |
8345 | Trowbridge, Edmund | Trowbridge’s and Oliver’s Charges to the Jury: 5 … | 1770-12-05 | Gentlemen of the Jury, William Wemms, James Hartegan, William McCauley, Hugh White, Matthew... | |
8346 | Paine, Robert Treat | Paine’s Minutes of Cushing’s and Lynde’s Charges to the … | 1770-12-05 | Judge Cushing . The longest Tryal I have ever known. The Party in K ing S treet had a right to... | |
8347 | Lynde, Benjamin | Lynde’s Charge to the Jury: 5 December 1770 | 1770-12-05 | If therefore on the whole of the evidence offered, you should be of the mind that this meeting of... | |
8348 | UNKNOWN | Verdicts: 5 December 1770 | 1770-12-05 | After the Court had summed up the Cause, the Jury withdrew for about two hours and an half, and... | |
8349 | Adams, John | Webb, Nathan | From John Adams to Nathan Webb, 1 September 1755 | 1755-09-01 | The Favour you granted me on aug. 12 was unluckily packeted with a number of Letters and carried... |
8350 | Adams, John | Cranch, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 2 September 1755 | 1755-09-02 | I promised to write you an account of the scituation of my mind. The natural strength of my... |
8351 | Adams, John | Webb, Nathan | From John Adams to Nathan Webb, with Comments by the … | 1755-10-12 | All that part of Creation that lies within our observation is liable to Change. Even mighty... |
8352 | Adams, John | Literary Commonplace Book, 1755 – 1756 | ≈1755-01-01 | Harvard College(?) and Worcester, mainly compiled in 1755–1756 , with some possibly earlier... | |
8353 | Adams, John | Bailey, Rev. Jacob | From John Adams to the Reverend Jacob Bailey, January … | ≈1756-01-01 | I receiv’d your favour of Decr. 29. about 3 or 4 Days after it was wrote. The bearer left it at... |
8354 | Adams, John | Cushing, Charles | From John Adams to Charles Cushing, 3 April 1756 | 1756-04-03 | I had the Pleasure, a few Days since, of receiving your favour of February 4th. I am obliged to... |
8355 | Adams, John | Cranch, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 29 August 1756 | 1756-08-29 | I am set down with a Design of writing to you.—But the narrow Sphere I move in, and the lonely... |
8356 | Adams, John | Wentworth, John | From John Adams to John Wentworth, September 1756 | ≈1756-09-01 | I brought a few Ideas with me when I first came to this Town, that grew in the luxurious soil of... |
8357 | Adams, John | Cranch, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Cranch, 18 October 1756 | 1756-10-18 | In my last you remember I desired your sincere Opinion of the new Resolution I had taken, but as... |
8358 | Adams, John | Cushing, Charles | From John Adams to Charles Cushing, 19 October 1756 | 1756-10-19 | I look upon myself obliged to give you the reasons that induced me to resolve upon the study and... |
8359 | Cranch, Richard | Adams, John | To John Adams from Richard Cranch, October 1756 | ≈1756-10-01 | Tho’ I acknowledge that one ought never to be asham’d to speak the truth; yet I find my self much... |
8360 | Adams, John | Wentworth, John | From John Adams to John Wentworth, 12 April 1758 | 1758-04-12 | Te Deum &c., I have resigned my school, I have almost recovered my Health, I have received a... |
8361 | Adams, John | Crawford, William | From John Adams to William Crawford, October 1758 | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L.... |
8362 | Adams, John | Dalton, Tristram | From John Adams to Tristram Dalton, October 1758 | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L.... |
8363 | Adams, John | Wentworth, John | From John Adams to John Wentworth, October 1758 | ≈1758-10-01 | I resume with Pleasure my long neglected Pen upon this opportunity by Mr. Belcher to inform you... |
8364 | Adams, John | Wentworth, John | From John Adams to John Wentworth, October 1758 | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L.... |
8365 | Adams, John | Crawford, William | From John Adams to William Crawford, October – November … | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree, October–November? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,... |
8366 | Adams, John | Quincy, Samuel | From John Adams to Samuel Quincy, October – November … | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree, October–November? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,... |
8367 | Adams, John | UNKNOWN | From John Adams to an Unidentified Correspondent … | ≈1758-10-01 | Braintree October–December? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,... |
8368 | Adams, John | Cranch, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Cranch, November – December … | ≈1758-11-01 | Braintree October–December? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams ,... |
8369 | Adams, John | Marginalia in John Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes, 5 … | ≈1758-12-05 | Braintree, 5 December 1758?, 12 March 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and... | |
8370 | Adams, John | Quincy, Josiah | From John Adams to Josiah Quincy, 17 May 1759 | 1759-05-17 | Braintree, post 17 May 1759. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John... |