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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 21, 1777
Philadelphia August 21. 1777. Thursday My best Friend This Morning, We have heard again from the Fleet. At 9 o Clock at Night, on the 14. Inst. upwards of an…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 20, 1777
Philadelphia August 20th. 1777 Wednesday My best Friend This Day compleats three Years since I stepped into the Coach, at Mr. Cushings Door, in Boston, to go to Philadelphia in…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 19, 1777
Philadelphia August 19. 1777 Tuesday My best Friend The Weather still continues cloudy and cool and the Wind Easterly. Howe’s Fleet and Army is still incognito. The Gentlemen from South…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 17, 1777
Philadelphia August 17. 1777 Sunday My dearest Friend Yesterday We had a cool Day, the Wind Easterly and cloudy, this Morning there is a brisk northeast Wind and cool Rain,…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 15, 1777
Philadelphia Aug. 15. 1777 My dearest Friend The Weather continues, as hot as ever. Upon my Word I dont know how to sustain it. Oh for a Bowl of your…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 14, 1777
Philadelphia August 14. 1777 Thursday My dearest Friend We are still parching under the fierce Heats of Dog days. It is agreed, by most People, that so long and so…
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Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, August 14, 1777
August 14. 1777. Braintree This is the memorable fourteenth of August. This day 12 years the Stamp office was distroyd. 1 Since that time what have we endured? What have…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, August 14, 1777
[ , Start insertion, Plymouth, ante 14 August 1777 , End, ] 1 Most sincerly do I Congratulate My Friend on her Restoration to Health after pain, peril and Disappointment.…
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Isaac, Sr Smith to John Adams, July 28, 1777
Boston July 28th. 1777 Mr. Adams Not haveing anything worth troubling you with for sometime have been silent. The late Affair of Ticonderogia, makes us all sick. I have been…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 28, 1777
Philadelphia July 28. 1777 My dearest Friend Never in my whole Life, was my Heart affected with such Emotions and Sensations, as were this Day occasioned by your Letters of…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, July 27, 1777
Philadelphia July 27. 1777 My dear Son If it should be the Design of Providence that you should live to grow up, you will naturally feel a Curiosity to learn…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 26, 1777
Philadelphia July 26. 1777 Saturday My dearest Friend At this Moment, I hope you are abed and happy. I am anxious to hear, and the more so because I had…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 23, 1777
July 23 1777 My dearest Friend Notwithstanding my confinement I think I have not omitted writing you by every post. I have recoverd Health and strength beyond expectation; and never…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 21, 1777
Philadelphia July 21. 1777 My best Friend I have long sought for a compleat History of the Revolution in the low Countries, when the Seven united Provinces seperated from the…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 20, 1777
Phila. July 20th. 1777 The little masterly Expedition to Rhode Island has given Us, some Spirits, amidst our Mournings for the Loss of Ti. Barton conducted his Expedition with infinite…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 18, 1777
Fryday July 18, 1777 The Papers inclosed will inform you, of the Loss of Ticonderoga, with all its Circumstances of Incapacity and Pusillanimity.—Dont you pitty me to be wasting away…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 16, 1777
Wednesday July 16. 1777 My dearest Friend Your Favour of the 2d. instant reached me on the 14th. The last Letters from me which you had received, were of the…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, July 16, 1777
July 16 1777 Join with me my dearest Friend in Gratitude to Heaven, that a life I know you value, has been spaired and carried thro Distress and danger altho…
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John Thaxter to John Adams, July 13, 1777
Braintree July 13th. 1777 Sir The day before Yesterday Mrs. Adams was delivered of a daughter; < , Start deletion, but , End, > it grieves me to add, Sir,…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 13, 1777
Philadelphia July 13. 1777 My dearest Friend We have a confused Account, from the Northward, of Something Unlucky, at Ticonderoga, but cannot certainly tell what it is. 1 I am…