Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 June 1777
June 8. 1777 I generally endeavour to write you once a week, if my Letters do not reach you, tis oweing to the neglect of the post. I generally get…
June 8. 1777 I generally endeavour to write you once a week, if my Letters do not reach you, tis oweing to the neglect of the post. I generally get…
Boston June 4th. 1777 Sir Last Monday Dr. Mather Byles was tried by Virtue of a late Act of this State, and found by the Jury so inimical, as to…
June 4. 1777 I wish I could know, whether your season is cold or warm, wet or dry, fruitfull or barren. Whether you had late Frosts. Whether those Frosts have…
Braintree June the 2d 1777 Dear Sir I Love to recieve Letters very well much better than I love to write them, I make but a poor figure at Composition…
Monday June 2. 1777 Artillery Election!–I wish I was at it, or near it. Yours of the 18th. reached me this Morning. The Cause that Letters are so long in…
June 1. 1777 My dearest Friend I designd to have wrote you by the last Post, but have been so unwell for the week past that I have not been…
Philadelphia May 28. 1777 An horrid cold Day for Election–warm work however, in the Afternoon, I suppose. 1 You will see by the inclosed Papers, among the Advertisements, how the…
May 28 1777 This is Election Day, but the news of the day I am not able to inform you of as I have Heard nothing from Town. The House…
May 25. 1777 At half past four this Morning, I mounted my Horse, and took a ride, in a Road that was new to me. I went to Kensington, and…
Philadelphia May 24. 1777 We have an Army in the Jersies, so respectable that We seem to be under no Apprehensions at present, of an Invasion of Philadelphia–at least untill…