8551To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 25 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I never recd. nor heard of your letter of the 27th June last, Wrote at Ipswich until the 22d...
8552To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 25 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter was this Day delivered to me in the office. Your obliging thanks for my duty gives me...
8553To John Adams from Edward Hill, 29 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Nothing could induce me to keep alive the remembrance of an affair which you will easily believe...
8554To John Adams from John Tudor, 1 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Received your favor of the 23d. ult. but not til Satterday night as the man who promisd. to...
8555From John Adams to William Tudor, 4 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have received from your Father, a Letter dated August the first, in answer to mine. It has been...
8556To John Adams from Edward Hill, 8 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
Saturday a Man of war arrived with the new accounts. The Governor has summoned the new Council to...
8557To John Adams from John Trumbull, 20 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
In the county of Worcester, the people, at a general meeting, have resolved that no court shall...
8558To John Adams from William Tudor, 21 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
The great Obligations your Friendship has laid me under would render me inexcusable to neglect...
8559From John Adams to William Tudor, 28 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I received your obliging Letter at New York, and it was peculiarly acceptable to me and my...
8560To John Adams from William Tudor, 29 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you 21st. Inst. which I hope you have receiv’d. The publick Prints of to Day, Which you...
8561To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, August 1774 (Adams Papers)
“We must fight , if we can’t otherwise rid ourselves of British taxation, all revenues, and the...
8562To John Adams from William Tudor, 3 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
This Week has been fruitfull of extraordinary Transactions. I will endeavour to give You some...
8563To John Adams from Edward Hill, 4 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you a fortnight ago by Mr. Sullivan, since which almost every day has produced some new...
8564Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Adams approached his participation in the Continental Congress with trepidation. As he...
8565I. Heads of Grievances and Rights, 9 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Whereas since the Accession of the present King, Parliament has claimed a Power of Right to bind...
8566II. Motion on Nonexportation and Defense, 30 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Resolved That the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, and the Town of Boston are now nobly...
8567III. To General Gage, 10 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
The Delegates from the Several Provinces in North America, now assembled in Congress, beg Leave...
8568IV. The Bill of Rights; a List of Grievances, 14 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament claiming a power of right to...
8569To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 11 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
A Very long and uninterrupted course of sickness has hitherto prevented me the pleasure of...
8570From John Adams to William Tudor, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have been so totally taken up, that I dont know whether I have acknowledged your Agreeble...
8571To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 14 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
The spirit of liberty is amazingly increased, so that there is scarce a tory and hardly a neutral...
8572To John Adams from William Tudor, 17 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Nothing very material has taken Place here since Mr. Revere left Boston, by whom you will have...
8573From John Adams to Josiah Quincy Jr., 18 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your kind Letter, and to thank you for it, and then Seal my...
8574To John Adams from William Tudor, 22 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
On my Return from Salem this Afternoon I was gratified with the Receipt of your kind Letter dated...
8575To John Adams from Benjamin Kent, 23 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Our enemies, for their own further security, as well as to bring the town into the most complete...
8576To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 24 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the first of August I received Yesterday by a private Hand. I most sincerly...
8577From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 26 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I had the Pleasure of receiving yours of the fourteenth Instant for which I am very...
8578To John Adams from William Tudor, 26 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Revere arriv’d late on friday Evening and brought Us your Letters. Each one communicated the...
8579From John Adams to William Tudor, 29 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I wish it was in my Power, to write you any Thing for the Relief of your Anxiety, under the...
8580From John Adams to the Boston Committee of Correspondence, September 1774 (Adams Papers)
As I am of the Opinion, that the Subjects of the Massachusetts Bay are without a King, Governor,...
8581Samuel Swift to Thomas Cushing, 2 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Since I wrote you, Jealousies seem to rise higher between the People and the Army. It has been...
8582From John Adams to William Tudor, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have just Time to thank you for your Letters by Mr Revere, and all other of your Favours. The...
8583To John Adams from Richard Cranch, 15 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I hear that a letter from one P——s, a clergyman in Connecticut, has been intercepted, and that an...
8584To John Adams from Samuel Cooper, 16 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Having just been informed that Mr. Tudor is going to Philadelphia, I take this opportunity to...
8585To John Adams from James Warren, 16 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I Recd yours of the 18th Sepr with A pleasure and satisfaction that render my Negligence in not...
8586To John Adams from Samuel Swift, 20 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 30th. Ult. I Recd, by Mr. Revere. He shew me Also your Cautionary paper, which was...
8587Reply to A Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans, 17 November 1774 (Adams Papers)
Enquire who is the Author? Whether a Sandemanian, a Quaker, or an high Churchman? The Character...
8588Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 26 October 1774 the Continental Congress adjourned, and its members returned home. John Adams...
8589From John Adams to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Towns and Districts of Massachusetts Bay, 10 December … (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
8590Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government, 10 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The...
8591From John Adams to Edward Biddle?, 12 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind favour 16. Ulto with great Pleasure last Week at Cambridge. I rejoice at the...
8592Donation for the Boston Poor from Two Virginia Counties, 16 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Virginia, 16 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston Port Bill, p. 66);...
8593Donation for the Boston Poor from Chesterfield County, Virginia, 17 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Virginia, Chesterfield County, 17 December 1774. LbC ( MHi :Donations to Sufferers by the Boston...
8594To John Adams from James Warren, 19 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
It always gives me pleasure to hear of the Existence and Health of my Friend and his Family and...
8595From John Adams to James Burgh, 28 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have had the Honour of receiving from you a most valuable desirable Present, in two Volumes of...
8596From John Adams to James Warren, 3 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I have this Moment recd a Line from Mrs. Warren and will in close her Letter to Mrs. Maccaulay,...
8597From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 3 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I remember, that Bishop Burnet in a Letter he once wrote to Lady Rachell Russell the virtuous...
8598To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 13 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I Wrote to you the 24th of Septr last in answer to your Obliging favor of the first of August, at...
8599To John Adams from James Warren, 15 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
I Admire the Notes and Resolves of the Maryland Convention. They Breath a Spirit of Liberty and...
8600From John Adams to a Friend in London, 21 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
“You have no doubt, long before this time, heard the particulars of the General Congress, and...