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Jonathan Sewall to John Adams, March 11, 1767
11 March 1767. Enclosed in a letter from JA to Hezekiah Niles (5 Feb. 1819, LbC , Adams Papers). Sewall’s letter was “in answer to a letter I had written…
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Letters to 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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Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 13, 1767
Sunday Eveng. Weymouth Sepbr. 14 [ , Start insertion, i.e. 13 , End, ] 1767 1 My Dearest Friend The Doctor talks of Setting out tomorrow for New Braintree. 2…
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Catharine Macaulay to John Adams, July 19, 1771
London July 19. 1771 Sr A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe fever of five months duration the consequence…
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William D. Whipple to John Adams, February 13, 1772
Portsmouth, 13 February 1772. RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr. at Boston favoured P Mr. Cutts”; endorsed. Whipple gives directions for litigation in the admiralty cases involving himself…
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Nathaniel Freeman to John Adams, October 4, 1772
Sandwich, 4 October 1772. RC ( MiU-C ); addressed to John Adams in Boston; endorsed. Freeman notifies Adams that he is appealing a case to the Superior Court and urges…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, December 30, 1773
Weymouth December 30 1773 Alass! How many snow banks devide thee and me and my warmest wishes to see thee will not melt one of them. I have not heard…
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James Warren to John Adams, January 3, 1774
Plymo. Jany. the 3d. 1774 Dr. Sir I Received your last and am to Acknowledge that the Contents of it gave me great pleasure. 1 I have for some time…
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Edward Dilly to John Adams, March 4, 1774
London March 4th 1774 Dear Sir The Letters you sent for Mrs. Macaulay directed, under Cover, for me, 1 were put into the Post office on Capt Scott’s arrival at…
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William Woodfall to John Adams, March 12, 1774
Dorset-street, Salisbury-Court , March 12, 1774 Sir As the Affairs of AMERICA are now agitating in both Houses of the English Parliament, and as it would be a matter of…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, May 17, 1774
May 17 74 Mr. Warren being prevented by many Avocations from writing this Morning, has put the pen into the hand of his substitute: who with him presents sincere Regards…
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Mary Nicolson to John Adams, May 26, 1774
[ , Start insertion, Boston, , End, ] Thursday 1/2 past 12– May 26, 1774 Dear Sir I have this moment been enformd that You and a Number of Worthy…
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Joseph R. Hawley to John Adams, August 1, 1774
[ , Start insertion, August? 1774 , End, ] 1 “We must fight , if we can’t otherwise rid ourselves of British taxation, all revenues, and the constitution or form…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, August 15, 1774
Braintree August th 15 1774 I know not where this will find you whether upon the road, or at Phylidelphia, but where-ever it is I hope it will find you…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, August 19, 1774
Braintree August 19 1774 The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month since you left me. The great anxiety I…
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William Tudor to John Adams, August 21, 1774
Boston Augst. 21st. 1774 Dear Sir The great Obligations your Friendship has laid me under would render me inexcusable to neglect any Occasion of paying You my Acknowlegements; it is…
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William Tudor to John Adams, August 29, 1774
Boston Augst. 29th. 1774 Dear Sir I wrote you 21st. Inst. which I hope you have receiv’d. The publick Prints of to Day, Which you will doubtless see, have been…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 2, 1774
Braintree Sepbr. 2 1774 I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your last absence, that I now think…
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William Tudor to John Adams, September 3, 1774
Boston Sepr. 3d. 1774 Dear Sir This Week has been fruitfull of extraordinary Transactions. I will endeavour to give You some Account of them. Tuesday the Superior Court opened 1…
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Edward Hill to John Adams, September 4, 1774
Boston August [ , Start insertion, September , End, ] 4th. 1774 Sir I wrote you a fortnight ago by Mr. Sullivan, since which almost every day has produced some…
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Catharine Macaulay to John Adams, September 11, 1774
Sepbr 11. 1774 Dear Sr A Very long and uninterrupted course of sickness has hitherto prevented me the pleasure of answering your Letters dated Boston June 28 and Dec. 11:1773,…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 14, 1774
Braintree Sepbr. 14 1774 Dearest Friend Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by the post, tho…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, September 22, 1774
Boston Garison Sepbr. 22 1774 I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day before yesterday, and call’d here in…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, October 13, 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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Elizabeth (1750-1815) Smith to John Adams, October 14, 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…