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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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8451 | Adams, John | Otis, James Jr. | Instructions of Boston to its Representatives in the … | 1768-06-17 | After the repeal of the late American Stamp Act, we were happy in the pleasing prospect of a... |
8452 | Adams, John | Wilkes, John | Committee of the Boston Sons of Liberty to John Wilkes … | 1768-10-05 | Your very obliging favor we receiv’d by Capt. Bruce the 18th ultimo. The members were immediately... |
8453 | Adams, John | George III | Petition of the Boston Town Meeting to King George III … | 1769-04-04 | Boston, 4 April 1769. MS not found. Printed Boston Gazette , 24 July 1769. At the town meeting of... |
8454 | Adams, John | Otis, James Jr. | Draft Instructions of Boston to its Representatives in … | 1769-05-08 | You have, once more received, the highest Testimony of the Confidence and Affection of your... |
8455 | Adams, John | Boston Town Meeting Committee Report on Measures for … | 1769-10-18 | Boston, 18 October 1769. MS ( MB ). Printed: Boston Record Commissioners, 16th Report City of... | |
8456 | Adams, John | De Berdt, Dennys | Boston Town Meeting Committee to Dennys De Berdt, 23 … | 1769-10-23 | In pursuance of the directions of the Town of Boston we have the honor to transmit you a Pamphlet... |
8457 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | Boston Town Meeting Committee to Benjamin Franklin, 23 … | 1769-10-23 | Printed: Franklin, Papers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin , ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B.... |
8458 | Adams, John | Wilkes, John | Committee of the Boston Sons of Liberty to John Wilkes … | 1769-11-04 | Many unforeseen engagements, and unavoidable accidents, furnish us with our only apology for not... |
8459 | Adams, John | Suffolk County Bar Book, 3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774 | ≈1770-01-03 | Boston,3 January 1770 – 26 July 1774. MS book containing 138 numbered pages ( MHi ). Printed:... | |
8460 | Adams, John | Governor Winthrop to the Inhabitants of New England … | ≈1770-01-01 | Boston, January? 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams... | |
8461 | Editorial Note | In the first week of June 1770, Adams accepted a seat in the Massachusetts House, a step which at... | |||
8462 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Requesting … | 1770-06-07 | 7 June 1770. MS ( M-Ar ), in an unidentified hand. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the... |
8463 | Adams, John | Committee Report on the Reasons for not Proceeding to … | 1770-06-12 | 12 June 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives... | |
8464 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Address to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson Seeking a … | 1770-06-15 | 15 June 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives... |
8465 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Reply to a Speech of Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson, 31 … | 1770-07-31 | 31 July 1770. MS , fair copy, in the hand of Samuel Adams ( MB ). Printed: Mass., House Jour.... |
8466 | Adams, John | Committee Report on Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson’s … | 1770-09-28 | 28 September 1770. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed 27 September, composed of... | |
8467 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on his Speech … | 1770-10-04 | 4 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of... |
8468 | Adams, John | Committee Report on Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson’s … | 1770-10-05 | 5 October 1770. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed and reporting 5 October, composed... | |
8469 | Adams, John | Committee Report on Naming a Day of Prayer and … | 1770-10-17 | 17 October 1770. MS not found. Draft prepared by a committee appointed 16 October composed of JA... | |
8470 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the … | 1770-10-23 | 23 October 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of... |
8471 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the Style … | 1770-11-06 | 6 November 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of... |
8472 | Adams, John | Committee Report on the State of the Province, 16 … | 1770-11-16 | 16 November 1770. MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of... | |
8473 | Adams, John | An Act for the Limitation of Personal Actions, 20 … | 1770-11-20 | 20 November 1770. MS , engrossed copy, signed by Hutchinson ( M-Ar ). Printed: Mass., Province... | |
8474 | Adams, John | Hutchinson, Thomas | Message to Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson on the … | 1770-11-20 | MS not found. Printed: Mass., House Jour. Journals of the House of Representatives of... |
8475 | Adams, John | Committee of Correspondence to Benjamin Franklin, 17 … | 1770-12-17 | Boston, 17 December 1770. RC ( MeHi ). Printed: Franklin, Papers The Papers of Benjamin Franklin... | |
8476 | Adams, John | Committee Report on the Petition of Gyles Merrill, 10 … | 1771-04-10 | 10 April 1771. MS not found. Prepared by a committee appointed and reporting the same day,... | |
8477 | Adams, John | A Bill for Granting Support to Lieutenant Governor … | 1771-04-10 | 10 April 1771. MS ( P.R.O. : Colonial Office, 5:760). Prepared by a committee appointed and... | |
8478 | Adams, John | Macaulay, Catharine Sawbridge | From John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, 9 August 1770 | 1770-08-09 | Boston9 August 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams ,... |
8479 | Adams, John | Draft of a Newspaper Communication, August 1770 | ≈1770-08-01 | August? 1770. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L.... | |
8480 | Adams, John | Boston Town Committee Report on a Society to Promote … | 1770-09-29 | Boston, 29 September 1770. MS not found. At the Boston Town Meeting of 20 Sept., JA was named to... | |
8481 | Adams, John | Lowell, John | From John Adams to John Lowell?, 15 December 1770 | 1770-12-15 | Being generally Speaking a son of Liberty, notwithstanding the Cloud of Toryism that has lately,... |
8482 | Adams, John | Announcement of Changes of Address of John Adams’ Law … | 1771-04-22 | Notifies the Removal of his Office to a Room in Queen-Street, in the House of Mr. John Gill,... | |
8483 | Macaulay, Catharine | Adams, John | To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 19 July 1771 | 1771-07-19 | A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe... |
8484 | Adams, John | Whipple, William | From John Adams to William Whipple, 27 January 1772 | 1772-01-27 | Boston, 27 January 1772. Printed: Letters by Washington . . . and Others ... to John Langdon ,... |
8485 | Adams, John | Draft of a Newspaper Communication, 9 February 1772 | 1772-02-09 | 9 February 1772. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed.... | |
8486 | Adams, John | The Brace of Adamses, 9 February 1772 | 1772-02-09 | 9 February 1772. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed.... | |
8487 | Whipple, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Whipple, 13 February 1772 | 1772-02-13 | Portsmouth, 13 February 1772. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr. at Boston... |
8488 | Adams, John | Notes for an Oration at Braintree Concerning … | ≈1772-03-02 | Braintree, 2 March – 18 May 1772.. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography... | |
8489 | Freeman, Nathaniel | Adams, John | To John Adams from Nathaniel Freeman, 4 October 1772 | 1772-10-04 | Sandwich, 4 October 1772. RC ( MiU-C ); addressed to John Adams in Boston; endorsed. Freeman... |
8490 | Adams, John | Macaulay, Catharine Sawbridge | From John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, 31 December 1772 | 1772-12-31 | Boston31 December 1772. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John... |
8491 | Editorial Note | The issue addressed by John Adams and William Brattle in this exchange in the pages of the Boston... | |||
8492 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | I. To the Boston Gazette, 11 January 1773 | 1773-01-11 | GENERAL BRATTLE, by his rank, station and character, is intituled to politeness and respect, even... |
8493 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | II. To the Boston Gazette, 18 January 1773 | 1773-01-18 | It has been said already, that the common law of England has not determined the judges to have an... |
8494 | Brattle, William | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | III. William Brattle to the Boston Gazette, 18 January … | 1773-01-18 | As the lines of mens minds are as various as the features of their faces, they can no more upon... |
8495 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | IV. To the Boston Gazette, 25 January 1773 | 1773-01-25 | Another observation which occurred to me upon reading General Brattle’s first publication, was... |
8496 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | V. To the Boston Gazette, 1 February 1773 | 1773-02-01 | One Thing at one Time . De Witt. The question is, in the present state of the controversy,... |
8497 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | VI. To the Boston Gazette, 8 February 1773 | 1773-02-08 | Two or three anecdotes, were omitted in my last, for want of room, which may be here inserted, in... |
8498 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | VII. To the Boston Gazette, 15 February 1773 | 1773-02-15 | We are now upon the commissions of our own Judges, and we ought to examine well the tenure by... |
8499 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | VIII. To the Boston Gazette, 22 February 1773 | 1773-02-22 | In all General Brattle’s researches hitherto, aided and assisted as he has been by mine, we have... |
8500 | Editorial Note | While John Adams was concluding his long series of replies to William Brattle on the independence... |