Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, May 7, 1810
[ 7 May 1810 ] Received Quincy 7th. May 1810 of Thomas B. Adams the sum of Twenty-five Dollars: fifty Cents in full for one quarter’s interest due on John…
Thomas Boylston Adams was the third and youngest son of second United States president John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams. He worked as a lawyer, a secretary to his brother John Quincy Adams while the latter served as United States ambassador to the Netherlands and Prussia, the business manager of and a contributor to the political and literary journal Port Folio, and a Massachusetts chief justice.
[ 7 May 1810 ] Received Quincy 7th. May 1810 of Thomas B. Adams the sum of Twenty-five Dollars: fifty Cents in full for one quarter’s interest due on John…
[ , Start insertion, 7 Aug. 1810 , End, ] Received Quincy August 7th: 1810 of Thomas B Adams the sum of twenty-five Dollars and fifty Cents in full for…
St. Petersburg 11/23 October 1810. My Dear Brother, It was a fortunate circumstance for us, that Mr. Jones had so prosperous and so expeditious a voyage and Journey—In sixty days…
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St: Petersburg 15/27. May. 1811. The Washington, Capt. Brown, has at length arrived at cronstadt, and we have received the letters by her, which we had so earnestly expected, and…
St: Petersburg 31. July 1811. My Dear Brother. No more scolding about your accounts—No more petty complaints about trifles instead of hearty thanks for the faithful care, and trouble which…
St: Petersburg 25 Septr: 1811. The flood of our letters from America, as well as of vessels arriving from the United States has almost entirely subsided. From the last week…
St: Petersburg 6. November 1811. Since I wrote you last (which the enclosed will shew you was very lately) though I have not have had the pleasure of hearing from…
St. Petersburg 4. March 1812. I have not forgotten the engagement which I voluntarily undertook, at the beginning of the last year, not to suffer any month to pass over…
St: Petersburg 28. April 1812. The only notice of existence directly from yourself that I have received since your letter of 2. June 1811. is by a scrap of half…
St: Petersburg 22 May 1812. Your N 19/10 dated 10 Septr: 7. Decr: 1811. and 3. Jany: 1812 was forwarded to me from Gothenburg, and received by me the 8th:…
St: Petersburg 4 July 1812 Since the original of my last letter was written, I have received no letters from America, but there are newspaper Accounts and letters to other…
St: Petersburg 14 July 1812 Although I wrote you not more than ten days ago, having yesterday received your letter of 18. March, and having now an excellent opportunity to…
St: Petersburg 29. September 1812 My dear Brother. A War between the United States and Great-Britain, and a War between France and Russia, having commenced on the same Week in…
St: Petersburg 21. June 1813. The duplicate of your Account for the year 1811. has at length reached me; but without comment or explanation—Part of it I therefore cannot fully…
St. Petersburg 23. October 1813 Mr. W. Story, arrived at Gothenburg on the 28th: of last Month, and forwarded to me from that place several Letters from Quincy, among which…
4 March 1814 Received Quincy March 4th 1814 of Thomas B Adams Esqr Twenty-five Dollars and fifty Cents in full for one quarter’s interest on J Q Adams’s Note $…
[ , Start insertion, 10 May 1814 , End, ] Recd: Quincy May 10th: 1814 of Thomas B Adams Esqr Twenty-five dollars & fifty Cents in full for a quarters…
Ghent 19 August 1814. My Dear Brother. I have now barely time to enclose you a Press-Copy of my last Letter; the original of which I sent to England, to…
Little Boston, Ealing 5. February 1817. My dear Brother Mr Sargent who arrived in London, about ten days ago, delivered to me your Letter of 6. December; and I am…
Boston 10th. Septbr. 1817 My Dear Brother. I have placed to your credit as my Agent the sum of ten thousand Dollars, in the United States Branch Bank, which you…
Washington 5th. December 1817 My Dear Brother Yours of the 24th. ulto. with the draft on the Branch Bank for 3000 Dollars in received.—Messrs: Payne and Co wrote me lately…
Washington 18 May 1818 My Dear Brother On examining the Register which you sent me, I find that your Court sits at Nantucket the second and at Edgar Town the…