Letters to John Adams

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Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 24 June 1775

Salem. June 24. 1775 Mr. Adams Long before this will reach you, you will have an Account of the Action, att Charlestown, in which though the regulars have gaind an…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 June 1775

June 22 1775 I received yours [of] june 10, for which I thank you. I want you to be more perticuliar. Does every Member feel for us? Can they realize…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 18 June 1775

Sunday June 18 1775 Dearest Friend The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting Heart must find vent at my pen.…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 June 1775

Weymouth June [16?] 1775 1 I set down to write to you a monday, but really could not compose myself sufficently: the anxiety I sufferd from not hearing one syllable…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 24 May 1775

24 May B [raintre] e 1775 Suppose you have had a formidable account of the alarm we had last Sunday morning. When I rose about six oclock I was told…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1775

Braintree May 7 1775 I received by the Deacon 1 two Letters from you this Day from Hartford. I feel a recruit of spirits upon the reception of them, and…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 May 1775

Braintree May 4. 1775 I have but little news to write you. Every thing of that kind you will learn by a more accurate hand than mine; things remain much…

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Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774

Braintree October 16 1774 My Much Loved Friend I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I have some very…

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Elizabeth Smith to John Adams, 14 October 1774

Wey–€” October 14th. 1774 I have (my Dear Brother) been more than entertained by perusing a number of your Letters to my Sister. Highly favoured among Women, and peculiarly happy…

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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 13 October 1774

October 13 1774 Sir I have been trying ever since you went away to learn to write you a Letter. I shall make poor work of it, but Sir Mamma…

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