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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 1

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Richard Cranch and John Adams to Mary Smith -

Germantown Decr. 30th. 1761
I was at Boston yesterday and saw ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Octr. 4th. 1762
By the same Token that the Bearer ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Braintree? 1762–1763
I have taken the best Advice, on ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763
Accidents are often more Friendly ...

Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Weymouth March 16 1763
Tis no small pleasure to me, to ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

April 20th. 1763
Love sweetens Life, and Life ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth August th 11 1763
If I was sure your absence to day ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Monday Morning 15 August 1763
The Disappointment you mention was ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Saturday morning Aug. 1763
Germantown is at a great Distance ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth Sepbr. th 12 1763
You was pleas'd to say that the ...

Hannah Storer Green to Abigail Smith -

Friday 10 O'clock 1763–1764
My inclinations, tho' not my ...

Hannah Storer Green to John Adams -

Boston Februry. 20th. 1764
I think myself greatly indebted to ...

Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts -

Weymouth April th 2. 1764
I should not have been unmindful ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth April 7. 1764
How do you now? For my part, I ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Saturday Evening Eight O'Clock 7 April 1764
For many Years past, I have not ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth April 8. 1764
If our wishes could have conveyed ...

John Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Ap. 9th 1764
I have nothing to do at present ...

Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts -

Monday eve—Weymouth April 9. 1764
I suppose you have written to me, ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Braintree Ap. 11th. 1764
The Room which I thought would ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Wednesday Eveng. 11 April 1764
This is the last Opportunity I ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Thurdsday. 5. Oclock. 12 April 1764
I have Thoughts of sending you a ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth April 12. 1764
Here am I all alone, in my ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Boston, 13 April 1764
We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Saturday. Two O Clock 14 April 1764
The Deacon and his Three Children ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Sunday Noon Weymouth April th 15 1764
Mr. Cranch informs me that Hones ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth April th 16 1764
I think I write to you every Day. ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Tuesday 17th. April 1764
Yours of April 15th. this moment ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

April 18. 1764 Wednesday 2 O Clock
Three of our Company, have now the ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Thursday Eve.—Weymouth April th 19 1764
Why my good Man, thou hast the ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Smith -

Boston, 19? April 1764
It was not forgetfulness, that ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Boston April 26th. 1764
Many have been the particular ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth April 30. 1764
Your Friendly Epistle reach'd me a ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Four O Clock afternoon May 4th. 1764
Returned from a Ramble in Town ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth May th 4: 1764
Your desire that I would write ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Boston May 7th. 1764
I promised you, Sometime agone, a ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

May 8th. 1764
This Morning received yours by Mr. ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Weymouth May. th 9 1764
Welcome, Welcome thrice welcome is ...

John Adams to Abigail Smith -

Septr. 30th. 1764
I have this Evening been to see ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Boston Octobr. 4. 1764
I am much obliged to you for the ...

Abigail Smith to John Adams -

Saturday afternoon Boston Octobr. 13. 1764
When I wrote you by the Doctor I ...

Abigail Adams to Hannah Storer Green -

post 14 July 1765
How many months have passed away ...

John Adams to Richard Cranch -

Braintree June 29th. 1766
I have been determined, a long ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Braintree july 15. 1766
Tomorrow being Commencment, ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Braintree Octobr. 6. 1766
I wrote to you a week ago, and ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Octobr. 13. 1766
I heard to Day that the Doctor had ...

Abigail and John Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Braintree Jana'ry 12 1767
Mr. Etter was so good as to come ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Salem Jany. 15 1767
Your kind letter I receiv'd to day ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Braintree Jan'ry. 31 1767
I have just returnd from Weymouth, ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Sunday Eveng. Weymouth Sepbr. 14 i.e. 13 1767
The Doctor talks of Setting out ...

John Adams to Richard Cranch -

September 23. 1767
I have but a few Moments, to ...

Elizabeth Smith to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Weymouth April 13th 1768
I return you Dr. Smollet, the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth 29 June 1769, I know not wt. day but it is Thurdsday morning the first Week
I embrace with Joy, this ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth June 30 July 1 1769
We have lived thro the Heat, and ...

Abigail and John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Boston Janry. 4 1770
I Congratulate you upon the fine ...

Isaac Smith Jr. to Abigail Adams -

London, Feb. 21. 1771
Your kindness to me in a former ...

Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams -

London, Feb. 21. 1771
I have very little of a political, ...

John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Boston April 11th. 1771
Three Days since I received your ...

Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Braintree April the 20 1771
I write you, not from the Noisy ...

Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams -

London, Septr. 3: 1771
I have just returned from an ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Septr. 17. 1771.
There is no Business here—And I ...

John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr. -

1771
P.S. There is another Gentleman ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Plymouth May Saturday 1772
I take an opportunity by Mr. Kent, ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Boston July 16 1773
The kind reception I met with at ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth july 25 1773
I shall pass over in silence the ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Boston December 5. 1773
Do not my Worthy Friend tax me ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Weymouth December 30 1773
Alass! How many snow banks devide ...

John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

1773
i thank you for your last letter i ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth january 19 1774
I sincerely Congratulate my much ...

Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams -

WeymouthFebruary. 8th. 1774
When I cast my Eyes backward; and ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Feby. 24. 1774
I was very glad to receive a Line ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

ante 27 February 1774
Your agreable favour of January 19 ...

Enclosure Group: Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, with a Poem on the Boston Tea Party

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth February 27 1774
The Confidence I have in the ...

[enclosure] Enclosure: Poem on the Boston Tea Party -

[1774-02-27]
Wrote at the Request of A ...

Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams -

WeymouthMarch 7th. 1774
I had written to the Deacon before ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Boston May 12. 1774
I am extreamly afflicted with the ...

Mercy Otis Warren to John and Abigail Adams -

May 17 74
Mr. Warren being prevented by many ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Ipswich June 23. 1774
I had a tollerable Journey hither, ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York June 29 1774
The Prophet of York has not ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York June 29. 1774
This is the second day of the Term ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York June 29. 1774
I have a great Deal of Leisure, ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York June 30th, 1774
I have nothing to do here, but to ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York June 30. 1774
I have had a Curiosity to examine ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York July 1st: 1774
I am so idle, that I have not an ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

York July 2. 1774
I have concluded, to mount my ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Littlefields at Wells. July 3. 1774
Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Quincy and I ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth July 5. 1774
I cant be easy without my Pen in ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth July. 6. 1774
Mobs are the trite Topick of ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth July 6th: 1774
Our Justice Hutchinson is ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth July 7th: 1774
Have you seen a List of the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Falmouth July 9. 1774
I never enjoyed better Health in ...

Elizabeth Palmer to Abigail Adams -

Satterday evening July 15th 16 1774
I have this moment finished ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth August 9th 1774
I Returned yesterday from a Visit ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree August th 15 1774
I know not where this will find ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree August 19 1774
The great distance between us, ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Boston August 20 1774
I thank you my dear Sister for all ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Prince Town New Jersey Aug. 28th. 1774
I received your kind Letter, at ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 2 1774
I am very impatient to receive a ...

William Tudor to Abigail Adams -

Saturday 12 oClock 3 September 1774
You may depend on my giving your ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 8. 1774
When or where this Letter will ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 14 1774
Five Weeks have past and not one ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 14. 1774
I have written but once to you ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 16. 1774
Having a Leisure Moment, while the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 18. 1774
I received your very agreable ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 18. 1774
In your last you inquire tenderly ...

John Adams to Richard Cranch -

Phyladelphia Septr. 18. 1774
I thank you most kindly for your ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Philadelphia Sept. 19. 1774
I have received your pretty ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Septr. 20. 1774
I am very well yet:—write to me as ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Boston Garison Sepbr. 22 1774
I have just returnd from a visit ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 25. 1774
I would not loose the Opportunity ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Septr. 29. 1774
Sitting down to write to you, is a ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Octr. 7. 1774
I thank you for all your kind ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia Octr. 9. 1774
I am wearied to Death with the ...

John Quincy Adams to John Adams -

October 13 1774
I have been trying ever since you ...

Elizabeth Smith to John Adams -

Wey— October 14th. 1774
I have (my Dear Brother) been more ...

Abigail Adams to William Tudor -

Braintree October 15 1774
I received your very obliging ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Isaac Smith Jr. -

Boston October 15 1774
It has been with inexpressable ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree October 16 1774
I dare not express to you at 300 ...

Isaac Smith Jr. to Mary Smith Cranch -

Cambridge, Octr. 20. 1774
If it was possible to tell you, my ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

1774
I was yesterday at Weymouth where ...

Abigail Adams to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay -

1774
In the last Letter which Mr. Adams ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree, 25 January 1775
I wrote you last Sabbeth evening ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth January 28 1775
I think myself Doubly obligated to ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree, 3? February 1775
The die is cast. Yesterday brought ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth February 25 1775
I had the pleasure of hearing ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Hartford. April 30th. 1775
I arrived here, last Evening, and ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Hartford. April 30th. 1775
New York has appointed an ample ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree May 2 1775
What a scene has opened upon us ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Hartford May 2d. 1775
Our Hearts are bleeding for the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Hartford May 2d. 1775
Mr. Eliot of Fairfield, is this ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree May 4. 1775
I have but little news to write ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree May 7 1775
I received by the Deacon two ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

New York May 8. 1775
I have an opportunity by Captn. ...

Abigail Adams to Joseph Warren -

Braintree May 13 1775
A Brother of Mr. Adams'es who has ...

Eunice Paine to Abigail Adams -

Taunton May 14th. 1775
I am indeed the Silvia, the once ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth May 15 1775
Though I am very unwell scarce ...

Abigail Adams to Edward Dilly -

America New England May 22. 1775
Just before Mr. Adams set off upon ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

24 May Braintree 1775
Suppose you have had a formidable ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia May 26. 1775
I embrace an Opportunity by two ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia May 29. 1775
Our amiable Friend Hancock, who by ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia June 2. 1775
I had Yesterday the Pleasure of ...

Abigail Adams to Eunice Paine -

Braintree June 3 1775
So good an opportunity offering, ...

Eunice Paine to Abigail Adams -

From the Green June 4th 1775
Yours received last Evening ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia June 6th 1775
I have received yours of 24th. May ...

John Adams to Isaac Smith Sr. -

Phyladelphia June 7. 1775
Two days ago, I was very agreably ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia. June 10. 1775
Dr. Church returns to Day, and ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia June 10th. 1775
Dr. Church has given me a Lotion, ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia June 11. 1775
I have been this Morning to hear ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Weymouth June 16 1775
I set down to write to you a ...

Abigail Adams to James Bowdoin -

Braintree June 16th. 1775
I have the Pleasure of acquainting ...

Mary Nicolson to Abigail Adams -

Plymouth June 16 1775
I hoped long ere now to have Been ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Sunday June 18 1775
The Day; perhaps the decisive Day ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia June 18. 1775
This Letter, I presume, will go by ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

June 22 1775
I received yours of june 10, for ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia June 23. 1775
I have this Morning been out of ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem. June 24. 1775
Long before this will reach you, ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

June 25 1775 Braintree
My Father has been more affected ...

John Thaxter to John Adams -

Braintree June 28th. 1775
One of the many brave and gallant ...

Cotton Tufts to John Adams -

Weymouth July. 3. 1775
You have no Doubt long before this ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Phyladelphia July 4. 1775
This Letter is to go by my worthy ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintre July 5 1775
I have received a good deal of ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia July 7. 1775
I have received your very agreable ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree July 12. 1775
I have met with some abuse and ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree July 16 1775
I have this afternoon had the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia July 17. 1775
About five O Clock this Morning, I ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

July 23 1775
You have more than once in your ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia July 23d: 1775
Have only Time to send by this ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree 24 July 1775
I have been hoping every day since ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

PhiladelphiaJuly 24th, 1775.
IT is now almost three Months ...

Richard Cranch to John Adams -

Braintree July 24th 1775
Sister Adams informs me that you ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree, July 25 1775
I received yours of July 7 for ...

Cotton Tufts to John Adams -

Weymouth July 25. 1775
Since my last to you, nothing very ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem July 26 1775
I forgot in my last epistle, to ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia July 28. 1775
Your two last Letters had very ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia July 30th. 1775
This Letter is intended to go by ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree july 31—1775
I do not feel easy more than two ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree August 10 1775
Tis with a sad Heart I take my pen ...

Hannah Storer Green to Abigail Adams -

Westfield August 18th. 1775
A serious truth this, which daily ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Watertown. Saterday 12 o Clock 26 August 1775
I know my dear friend Mrs. Adams ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree August 27 1775
It was with pleasure I received a ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 8 1775
Since you left me I have passed ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 16 i.e. 17 Sunday 1775
I set myself down to write with a ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Septr. 17. 1775
This is the first Time, that I ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth 21 of Sept. 1775
As soon as the Letter of my ...

Hannah Storer Green to Mary Smith Cranch -

Westfield Sepr. 22d. 1775
I suppose you have received a ...

Joseph Hawley to Abigail Adams -

Watertown 23d. Septr. 1775
The Publick have great Need of two ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 25 1775
I set down with a heavy Heart to ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Septr. 26. 1775
I have not written the usual ...

James Warren to Abigail Adams -

Watertown Sepr. 27th: 1775
I Received yours last Evening. Att ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Sepbr. 29 1775
I received your kind favour of the ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Weymouth october. 1 1775
Have pitty upon me, have pitty ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Octr. 1. 1775
This Morning, I received your two ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Octr. 2. 1775
Every Thing here is in as good a ...

John Thaxter to John Adams -

Hingham Octr. 4th. 1775
Since your absence your family has ...

Obituary of Elizabeth Quincy Smith -

[1775-10-06]
Last Sabbath departed this Life ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Octr. 7th. 1775
Yesterday, by the Post, I received ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree october 9 1775
I have not been composed enough to ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 10. 1775
I am much concerned least you ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 13. 1775
I this day received yours of the ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree October 19 1775
I thank my Friends for their kind ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr: 19. 1775
It is some Time since I wrote you, ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

October 20th, 1775
I condole with you, most ...

John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams -

Octr. 20. 1775
I have suffered a great deal of ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree October 21 1775
Tis ten Days since I have wrote ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

October 21. 1775
This Letter will go by two ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree october 22 1775
Mr. Lorthorp call'd here this ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 23. 1775
Yesterday yours of Octr. 9th. came ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

October 25 1775
I have been highly favourd this ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 28. 1775
The Fall of Dr. Church, has given ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 29.1775
I cannot exclude from my Mind your ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia, 29 October, 1775
Human nature with all its ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Octr. 29. 1775
There is, in the human Breast, a ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Novr. 4. 1775
Have but Yesterday received yours ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

November 5 1775
I have been prevented writing you ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree ca. 5 November 1775
I hope the Historick page will ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree Novbr. 12 1775
I received yours of October 23. I ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Novr. 12. 1775
I am often afraid you will think ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Novr. 15th. 1775
This I suppose will go by Mr. ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

November 18. 1775
Your kind Letter of the 5th. Inst. ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

November 27 1775
Tis a fortnight to Night since I ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Decr. 3. 1775
Yours of Novr. 12 is before me. I ...

Isaac Smith Jr. to the Reverend William Smith? -

Enfield near London Decr. 5 1775
The present opportunity appears to ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree December 10. 1775
I received your obliging favour by ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth Dec. 11 1775
My Dear Mrs. Adams has ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem January the 2d. 1776
I wrote you sometime Ago, ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, with Adams' Letter of Transmittal -

Salem, January 19, 1776
I had wrote you several posts ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Watertown Jan. 24. 1776
I am determined not to commit a ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

February 7 1776
Just Come to hand is A Letter from ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia Feby. 11. 1776
Here I am again. Arrived last ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Feby. 13 1776
Lee is at York, and We have ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

February 18. 1776
I sent you from New York a ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Febry 21 1776
Tis a month this day since you ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

[1776-03-02]
I was greatly rejoiced at the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Philadelphia March 8. 1776
Yesterday by Major Osgood I had ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree March 16 1776
I last Evening Received yours of ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

March 17. 1776
Our worthy Friend Frank Dana ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

March 19. 1776
Yesterday I had the long expected ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem. March 22d. 1776
You will by this itts likely have ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem March the 27th. 1776
Sir I wrote you by last, to which ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

March 29. 1776
I give you Joy of Boston and ...

John Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Philadelphia March 29. 1776
We are impatiently waiting for ...

John Adams to Norton Quincy -

Philadelphia March 30th. 1776
The Acquisition of Boston, and its ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree March 31 1776
I wish you would ever write me a ...

Peter Boylston Adams to John Adams -

Braintree April 4th. 1776
So far Sincable of my duty to ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem Aprill the 6 1776
I wrote you a post or two Ago, of ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

April 7 1776
I Received two Letters from you ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

April 12. 1776
Inclose a few Sheets of Paper, and ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree April 13. 1776
I Received a few lines from you ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

April 14 1776
I have misst my Good Friend Col. ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

Ap. 14. 1776
You justly complain of my short ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

April 15. 1776
I send you every News Paper, that ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Watertown April 17 1776
If my dear friend Required only a ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

April 18 1776
I cannot omit so good an ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

April 18th, 1776
I cannot recollect the tenderness ...

John Adams to John Quincy Adams -

Philadelphia April 18. 1776
I thank you for your agreable ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

April 21 1776
I have to acknowledg the Recept of ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

April 23d. 1776
This is St. Georges Day, a ...

Cotton Tufts to John Adams -

Weymouth April 26. 1776
Soon after the Removal of our ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree April 27 1776
I set myself down to comply with ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

April 28. 1776
Yesterday, I received two Letters ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree May 7 1776
How many are the solitary hours I ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree, ca. 8 May 1776
Mr. Morton has given me great ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

May 9 1776
I this day Received yours of the ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

May 12. 1776
Yours of April 21. came to Hand ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

May 14 1776
I set down to write you a Letter ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem May 14th. 1776
I received last post a letter from ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

May 15. 1776
Mr. Church setts off, tomorrow ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

May 17. 1776
I have this Morning heard Mr. ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

May 22d. 1776
When a Man is seated, in the Midst ...

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams -

Salem May 22d. 1776
Your esteemed favors of the 29th. ...

Abigail Adams to John Adams -

Braintree, 27 May 1776
What can be the reason I have not ...

John Adams to Abigail Adams -

May 27. 1776
I have three of your Favours, ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Plimouth 27 May 1776
My dear Mrs. Adams will ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree, January? 1776
Our Country is as it were a ...

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