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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, May 16, 1797
Philadelphia May 16 1797 My Dear sister most cordially welcome to me was your kind Letter of May the 4 th , yet I have not found time since my…
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Letters to Mary Smith Cranch
B. 1769 · D. 1855
William Cranch was a United States circuit judge and chief judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. A staunch Federalist and nephew of First Lady Abigail Adams, Cranch moved his legal practice from Massachusetts to the new national capital, where he became one of three city land commissioners for Washington, D.C., and during his judicial service also was the 2nd Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and a professor of law at Columbian College.
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87 letters
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, May 24, 1797
Philadelphia May 24 1797 my dear sister I keep up My old Habit of rising at an early hour. if I did not I should have little command of my…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, June 23, 1797
Philadelphia June 23 1797 my dear sister I received your Letter of June 13 th. and thank you for it. the account you give me respecting my House and the…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, July 19, 1797
Philadelphia July 19 1797— my dear sisters If the Compass by which my course is directed does not vary again through unavoidable necessity I shall sit out for Quincy next…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, July 21, 1797
July 21 1797 my dear sister The weather is Hot as we can bear the whole city is like a Bake House. we have a House with large and airy…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, July 29, 1797
Saturday Mor g. East Chester 29 July 1797. My Dear sister We leave this place this morning & hope to reach Home on fryday of the next week. I have…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, October 13, 1797
East Chester october 13 1797 my dear sister we arrived here on twesday Evening on the 11 th , after a pleasent journey in which we met with but few…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, January 20, 1798
Philadelphia Jan ry 20 1798 my dear sister I do not know whether there is any getting over the Rivers. the Eastern Mail due yesterday is not arrived. the Ice…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, February 1, 1798
Philadelphia [ 1 ] Feb ry 1798 1 my dear sister your kind Letter of Jan’ ry 14 th I received last week. 2 I Shall not be dissatisfied with…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, February 6, 1798
Philadelphia Feb’ ry 6 th 1798 my dear sister I was very anxious to receive a Letter from you this morning, and Betsy was wishing yet dreading to hear from…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, March 3, 1798
Philadelphia March 3 d. 1798 my dear sister To communicate pleasure, is reflecting happiness. The secretary of state came smiling in my Room yesterday. I said to him, I know…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, March 5, 1798
Philadelphia march 5 th 1798 my dear sister I received on saturday Evening the 3 d March Your kind Letter of 25 Feb’ ry. 1 You estimate much too highly…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, April 4, 1798
April 4 1798 dear sister The eastern post will go out this morning and I take my pen to thank you for your Letters of the 20 & 26th of…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, April 7, 1798
April 7 th 1798 my dear sister The senate on thursday voted to have the dispatches from our Envoys made publick, and orderd them Printed, but not the instructions. 1…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, April 9, 1798
Philadelphia April 9 th 1798 My Dear sister I wrote you on saturday that I would forward to you the Dispatches as soon as they were out. I accordingly inclose…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, April 13, 1798
Philadelphia April 13 1798 my dear sister I inclose a Letter to cousin Betsy who has been very frank with me upon the subject of her approaching connection. I hope…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, May 7, 1798
Philadelphia May 7 th 1798 my dear sister mr Black got here on thursday night. I was rejoiced to see him. it seemd next to being at home. I yesterday…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, May 10, 1798
May 10 th 1798 Philadelphia my dear sister Rumour at a distance magnifies, and seldom reports truth. I have not written you a word upon a subject which I know…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, June 1, 1798
Philadelphia June 1 1798 My dear sister I was indeed greatly afflicted by the contents of your last Letter. 1 I received it yesterday, and having a large party of…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, June 4, 1798
Monday Philadelphia June 4 1798 my dear sister I received on saturday Yours of May 28 th I wrote you on saturday previous to my receiving yours I am very…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, June 19, 1798
Quincy 1 19 June 1798 my dear sister I expected to have heard from you on Saturday, but no Letter came and on Wedensday but still no Letter. I was…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, June 23, 1798
Philadelphia June 23 d 1798 my dear sister The weather has been so oppressively Hot for this week—and the streets of the City so nausious that I expect the concequences…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, July 13, 1798
Philadelphia July 13 1798 my dear sister I begin my Letter by saying that mr Cranch was so much better on the 7th, the date of mrs Johnsons last Letter,…
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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, July 17, 1798
Philadelphia July 17 th 1798 My dear sister I had a Letter yesterday from mrs Johnson of the 12 July, in which she says mr Cranch had just returnd from…