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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 June 1777
June 8. 1777 Upon an Invitation from the Board of War of Pensilvania, a Committee was appointed a few days ago to go down Delaware River and take a View…
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Letters to Abigail Adams
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 June 1777
June 4. 1777 I wish I could know, whether your season is cold or warm, wet or dry, fruitfull or barren. Whether you had late Frosts. Whether those Frosts have…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 June 1777
Monday June 2. 1777 Artillery Election!–I wish I was at it, or near it. Yours of the 18th. reached me this Morning. The Cause that Letters are so long in…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1777
Philadelphia May 28. 1777 An horrid cold Day for Election–warm work however, in the Afternoon, I suppose. 1 You will see by the inclosed Papers, among the Advertisements, how the…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1777
May 25. 1777 At half past four this Morning, I mounted my Horse, and took a ride, in a Road that was new to me. I went to Kensington, and…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 May 1777
Philadelphia May 24. 1777 We have an Army in the Jersies, so respectable that We seem to be under no Apprehensions at present, of an Invasion of Philadelphia–at least untill…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1777
May 22 [ 1777 ]. 4 O Clock in the Morning After a Series of the souerest, 1 and harshest Weather that ever I felt in this Climate, We are…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1777
Plimouth May 21 [ 1777 ] I this day Received a few lines 1 from my Friend, whose Long silence I have not been able to Account for but suppose…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1777
May 21. 1777 Dont be two much alarmed at the Report of an Attack of Boston. The British Court are pursuing a system which in the End I think they…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1777
Philadelphia May 17. 1777 I never fail to inclose to you the News papers, which contain the most of the Intelligence that comes to my Knowledge. I am obliged to…