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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, June 17, 1818
Quincy June 17th. 1818 Dear Tudor The next Statute produced & commented by Mr Otis was the 15th. of Charles the Second, i.e. 1663, Chapter 7. “An Act for the…
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Letters from John Adams
B. 1735 · D. 1826
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the Continental Congress of the United States as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with contemporaries, including his wife and advisor Abigail Adams and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
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John Adams to George Brinley, June 19, 1818
Quincy June 19th. 1818 Dear Sir I have received your Letter of the 16th. My letter to Col Daniel Putnam of the 5th. is at his and your disposal. You…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, June 24, 1818
Quincy June 24th. 1818. Dear Tudor Mr Otis Said Such a “Writt of Assistance” might become the Reign of Charles the Second in England, and he would not dispute the…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1818
Quincy July 18 1818 Dear Sir Will you accept a curious Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Chatechism for the Education a Boy of 14 Years of…
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John Adams to William Wirt, July 18, 1818
Quincy July 18. 1818 Dear Sir Accept a Morsell of ancient Massachusetts Letterature: and will you be pleased to compare it with Mr Henry’s Argument against the Parsons. It was…
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John Adams to Moses Lloyd Hill, July 19, 1818
Quincy July 19. 1818 Sir Your request of permission to dedicate to me, your proposed travels and Statistical views whose title promiseth both entertainment and Instruction is too flattering to…
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John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, July 19, 1818
Quincy July 19. 1818 Dear Sir I have recd your favour from Richmond of July 4 I cannot write long letters. When you visit Boston do not forget Quincy the…
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John Adams to Rev. Horace Holly, July 22, 1818
Quincy July 22d. 1818 Dear Sir I have rarely, if ever, read a Letter with more Pleasure than yours of July the 3d. you could not have fallen into Families…
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John Adams to William Lambert, July 23, 1818
Quincy July 23d 1818 Sir I have received your favour of the 15th. with two printed Copies of the Abstracts &c. One Copy I shall give to William Smith Shaw…
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John Adams to John T Watson, July 23, 1818
Quincy July 23. 1818 Sir I thank you, < , Start deletion, for you , End, > for your favour of the 12th. You advise me to write my own…
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John Adams to James Madison, July 25, 1818
Quincy July 25 1818 Dear Sir Permit me to present you, what I think a Curiosity. Dr Mayhews Thirtieth of January Sermon, preached and printed almost Seventy Years ago. It…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, August 11, 1818
Quincy August 11th. 1818 Dear Sir The “Defence of the New England Charters” by Jer. “Dummer” is, both for Style and matter, one of our most classical American Productions. “The…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, August 16, 1818
Quincy August 16th 1818 Dear Sir We cannot yet dismiss this precious statute of the 6th of George the second. Chapter 13. The second section I must abridge, for I…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, August 20, 1818
Quincy August 20. 1818. Dear Sir Mr: Otis quoted another Author “The political & commercial Works of Charles D’Avenant LLD Vol 2 Discourse 3 on the plantation trade” I cannot…
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John Adams to Moses Lloyd Hill, August 21, 1818
Quincy August.—21st 1818 Sir Your first Ancestor in America lies buried in Quincy under a rough North Common Granite. I lament the hard Case of General Sinclair a Gentleman of…
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John Adams to Joseph Milligan, August 21, 1818
Quincy August 21st 1818 Dear Sir I beg you will accept my thanks for your obliging letter of the 10th & that you will present the name to Mr Jacob…
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John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, September 13, 1818
Quincy September 13, 1818. Dear Sir You cannot imagine how much You have obliged me by your kind Letter of the 6th. I was intimately acquainted with your Uncle Cesar…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, September 13, 1818
Quincy September 13th. 1818 Dear Sir It is some consolation to find in the Paragraph of the Charter, next following the Court of Admiralty, that Nothing in it, “Shall in…
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John Adams to Virginia Patiot, September 17, 1818
Quincy Sep 17th. 1818 Sir, I thank you for the copy of Decius’s letters &c. And I pray you, accept a Sermon of Dr Mayhew in 1749—50, and to present…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, September 18, 1818
Quincy Sepbr 18th 1818 Mr. Tudor The English doctrine of Allegiance, is so mysterious, fabulous, & enigmatical, that it is difficult to decompose the Elements Of which it is compounded.…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, September 23, 1818
Quincy September 23d 1818 Dear Sir If, in our Search of Principles We have not been able to investigate any moral phylosophical or rational foundation for any Claim of Dominion…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, September 24, 1818
Quincy Sep. 24. 1818 Dear Mr Rush The Procrastination of Old Age must be my only Apology for So long < for So long > neglecting to acknowledge Several kind…
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John Adams to William Mumford, October 9, 1818
Quincy October 9th. 1818. Sir, Though I have no intercourse with government, and very little to do with this world; I might have transmitted your letter of July 7th. to…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, October 11, 1818
Montezillo Oct. 11. [ 18 ]18 Dear Waterhouse I am really grieved at your Misfortune, if it were only on the Principle of Rochefaucault and Swift, that “In all Misfortunes…