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Abigail Adams to John Adams, May 6, 1777
May 6 1777 Tis ten days I believe since I wrote you a Line, 1 yet not ten minuts passes without thinking of you. Tis four Months wanting 3 days…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 4, 1777
May 4. 1777 Inclosed with this you have an Evening Post, containing some of the tender Mercies of the Barbarians to their Prisoners. If there is a Man, Woman or…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 2, 1777
May 2. 1777 We have promoted Arnold, one Step this day, for his Vigilance, Activity, and Bravery, in the late Affair at Connecticutt. 1 —We shall make Huntingdon a Brigadier,…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1, 1777
May 1. 1777 This is King Tammany’s Day. Tammany was an Indian King, of this Part of the Continent, when Mr. Penn first came here. His Court was in this…
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Abigail Adams to John Adams, April 1, 1777
[ , Start insertion, April 1777 , End, ] 1 The young folks desire Mamma to return thanks for their Letters which they will properly notice soon. It would have…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 30, 1777
April 30. 1777 We have a fine Piece of News this Morning of the March of 2000 of the Enemy, and destroying a fine Magazine there—and the stupid sordid cowardly…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 29, 1777
Ap. 29. 1777 This days Post brought me yours of 17th. inst. and Miss Nabbys obliging Favour of the 16. 1 This young Lady writes a very pretty Hand, and…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 28, 1777
Ap. 28. 1777 There is a Clock Calm, at this Time, in the political and military Hemispheres. The Surface is smooth and the Air serene. Not a Breath, nor a…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 27, 1777
Ap. 27. 1777 Your Favours of Ap. 2 and Ap. 7. I have received. The inclosed Evening Post, will give you, some Idea, of the Humanity of the present Race…
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 26, 1777
Saturday Evening 26 April 1777 I have been lately more remiss, than usual in Writing to you. There has been a great Dearth of News. Nothing from England, nothing from…