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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 March 1777
Philadelphia March 30 1777 Two ingenious Artificers, a Mr. Wheeler and a Mr. Wiley, under the Direction of a Committee, have been lately employed in making a Field Piece, a…
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John Adams to Charles Adams, 30 March 1777
Philadelphia March 30 1777 Yesterday, I took a Walk upon the Wharves, to see the Navigation. The new Frigate called The Delaware, is hawled off, into the stream and is…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 30 March 1777
Philadelphia March 30 1777 Sunday I have been this Afternoon, to a Place of Worship, which I never attended before. It is the Church of the Scotch Seceeders. They have…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 March 1777
Philadelphia March 28. 1777 –A Plott! a Plott! an horrid Plott, Mr. A.– says my Barber, this Morning.––It must be a Plott 1. because there is British Gold in it.…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1777
Philadelphia March 22. 1777 The Post now comes regularly, once a Week, and brings me the Boston News Papers, but no Letters from Penns Hill or its Environs. How do…
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John Adams to Isaac Smith Sr., 20 March 1777
Philadelphia March 20. 1777 In an Hand Bill printed at Baltimore the 17th instant 1 is as well made a Lye as ever I read. It is in these Words…
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John Adams to Charles Adams, 17 March 1777
Philadelphia March 17. 1777 Charles How do you do?–I hope you are in fine Health and Spirits. What Subject do your Thoughts run upon these Times. You are a thoughtfull…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 17 March 1777
Philadelphia March 17. 1777 My dear Daughter I hope by this Time, you can write an handsome Hand; but I wish you would, now and then, send a Specimen of…
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John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 March 1777
Philadelphia March 16. 1777 Tommy I believe I must make a Phisician of you. There seems to be a Propriety in your studying Physick, because your Great Great Grandfather after…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 March 1777
Philadelphia March 16. 1777 My dear Son There is an observation, which I wish you to make very early in Life because it may be usefull to you, when you…