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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, August 16, 1799
Quincy Aug 16th 1799 Sir Inclosed is a request of Dr Amos Windship to be a surgeon in one of our vessels of war. I was in the year 1779…
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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 Benjamin Stoddert, August 23, 1799
Quincy Aug 23d 1799 Sir My thoughts and feelings are exactly in union with yours, expressed in your favor of the 17th. I would propose that our envoys be landed…
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John Adams to Timothy Pickering, August 24, 1799
Quincy Aug 24th 1799 Sir I have received your favor of the 16th & read the letter of Mr B. H. Phillips, our consul at Curacao of 20th July, &…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, August 28, 1799
Quincy Aug 28th 1799 Sir I have signed the commission for Joseph Whitmore, to be sailing master in the navy & have sent it in your letter to him, as…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, September 4, 1799
Quincy Sept 4th 1799 Sir I have received your kind letter of the 29th. of August, & I thank you for the friendly sentiments expressed in it, in your private…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, September 5, 1799
Quincy Sept 5 [ , Start insertion, 1799 , End, ] Sir I enclose you a letter from McNeil of August 1st & 3d with two inclosures.
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John Adams to James McHenry, September 13, 1799
Quincy Sept 13th 1799 Sir If you can extract any meaning from the inclosed letter from Chilacautha, on Sioto, you will be welcome to it.
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John Adams to Timothy Pickering, September 13, 1799
Quincy Sept 13th 1799 Sir Inclosed are letters from Major McFarland, a meritorious old officer & as I have always understood an amiable, irreproachable character, though unfortunate & in distress.…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, September 13, 1799
Quincy Sept 13th 1799 Sir I have signed & return inclosed all the blanks which came with your favor of the 5th.
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John Adams to James McHenry, September 14, 1799
Quincy Sept 14 1799 Sir I am out of patience with some body, I know not whom. Your letter of the 4th of August, reached but last night. It had…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, September 14, 1799
Quincy Sept 14th [ , Start insertion, 1799 , End, ] Sir I received last night, your favor of the 5. The gentleman you mention is a native of Boston…
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John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, September 21, 1799
Quincy Sept 21st 1799 Sir I have read over and over again your letter of the 13th. I regret extreamly another blunder, of the post office, by which it has…
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John Adams to Oliver, Jr Wolcott, September 21, 1799
Quincy 21st Sept. 1799 Sir I return you all the papers inclosed in yours of the 13th, & I pray you to acquaint Ebenezer Skiff & Gen. Lincoln that Ebenezer…
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John Adams to Anonymous, September 22, 1799
Quincy Sept 22 [ , Start insertion, 1799 , End, ] Sir Last night I received the inclosed from Mr. Will. Moubray, resigning the office of collector of the destrict…
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John Adams to Oliver Ellsworth, September 22, 1799
Quincy Septr. 22. 1799 Dear Sir I recd last night your favour of the 18th. Judge Cushing called here yesterday in his Way to Vermont. This however may not perhaps…
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John Adams to Timothy Pickering, September 23, 1799
Quincy Sept 23d 1799 Sir I return you Mr. Murrays letters of May 28. June 13 & 22d, July 13 & 15 & the parts of newspapers inclosed with them.…
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John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, September 26, 1799
Quincy Septr. 26. 1799 Dear Sir I have recd your favour of this morning; and in Answer inform you that I have not recd an Answer to my Letter to…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, October 14, 1799
Trenton October 14. 1799 My dearest Friend I Sent you a Letter this morning before I rec d yours of the 13. from Brookfield. 1 I rejoice that you had…
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John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, October 17, 1799
Trenton October 17. 1799 Sir I received last night your favour of the 15 th , the Sentiments and expressions of which are Such as cannot fail to render your…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, October 18, 1799
Trenton October 18. 1799 My dearest Friend I have written you but once Since I bid you farewell. 1 I was Seized in Connecticutt with one of those direful Colds,…
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John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, October 19, 1799
Trenton October 19. 1799 My dear Son Since you are desirous of a Confidence, in the Breast of your Father, and he is not less anxious to possess one in…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, October 21, 1799
Trenton October 21. 1799 My dearest Friend I have no line from you, Since the 13 th at Brookfield. There has been So much rainy Weather as to have made…
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John Adams to David Sewall, October 23, 1799
Trenton Oct 23d 1799 Sir I beg pardon for postponeing to this time an answer to your favor of the 30th. Sept. I have run over all the names, Hooper…
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John Adams to Dr. Joseph Hamilton, October 25, 1799
Trenton Oct 25st 1799 Sir I have received your favor of the 15th with the agreeable present of your “occasional reflections on the operation of the small pox.” I am…