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Papers of John Adams, Volume 2

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To James Warren -

Boston Decr 17 1773
The Dye is cast: The People have ...

To James Warren -

Boston Der. 22. 1773
Yesterday, the Governor called a ...

From James Warren -

Plymo. Jany. the 3d. 1774
I Received your last and am to ...

Document Group: Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Peter Oliver

Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Peter Oliver -

ARTICLES of Impeachment of High ...

From Edward Dilly -

London March 4th 1774
The Letters you sent for Mrs. ...

From William Woodfall -

Dorset-street, Salisbury-Court, March 12, 1774
As the Affairs of AMERICA are now ...

Document Group: Report to the General Court on Massachusetts Boundaries

I. Charles Phelps' State of His Case -

[1774-05]
A State of the Right in Fee, the ...

II. Draft of An Examination of the Claim of New Hampshire -

[1774-05]
The Council of Plymouth, on the 19 ...

III. Draft of An Examination of the Claim of New York -

[1774-05]
In the Journal of the Votes and ...

IV. A State of the Title of the Massachusetts-Bay -

[1774-05]
A State of the Title of the ...

V. Additions to A State of the Title of Massachusetts-Bay -

[1774-05]
1631. The Merchants Map of ...

VI. An Examination of the Claim of New York -

[1774-05]
1753. In the year 1753 a Committee ...

To Robert Treat Paine -

Boston April 9. 1774
How does the Impeachment set upon ...

To James Warren -

Boston April 9. 1774
It is a great Mortification to me, ...

To Ebenezer Thayer Jr. -

Boston. April 25. 1774
I have been so much absent upon ...

To Alexander Wedderburn -

Your Defence of Messrs. Hutchinson ...

To William Woodfall -

Boston May 14. 1774
I had the Pleasure of receiving ...

Document Group: Calendar of John Adams' Public Service in Boston

Report of the Committee on Proposals for Boston's Conduct under the Port Act. -

[1774-05-18]
Report of the Committee on ...

Report of the Committee on Proposals and Ways and Means -

[1774-05-30]
Report of the Committee on ...

Report of the Committee on Ways and Means -

[1774-06-17]
Report of the Committee on Ways ...

Report of the Committee on Ways and Means -

[1774-07-19]
Report of the Committee on Ways ...

Report of the Committee on Ways and Means -

[1774-08-09]
Report of the Committee on Ways ...

Elected Council Members Negatived by Governor Thomas Gage -

[1774-05-25]
MS (M-Ar): 50, p. 520–521. Of the ...

From Mary Nicolson -

Boston, Thursday 1/2 past 12– May 26, 1774
I have this moment been enformd ...

Appointment of Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress -

Friday, June 17, A.D. 1774
This House having duly consider'd ...

To James Warren -

Ipswich June 25. 1774
I am very sorry, I had not the ...

To Joseph Hawley -

Ipswich, 27 June 1774
to leys Co declining the lend your ...

From Jonathan Williams -

Boston June 28th 1774
We yesterday received your Letter ...

To William Tudor -

June 29. 1774
I am determined to amuse my self ...

Marginalia in Letters to . . . The Earl of Hillsborough from Governor Bernard -

June 1774
A few Days before the Election in ...

From James and Mercy Otis Warren -

Plymo. July the 14th. 1774
Yours of the 25th. of last month ...

To James Warren -

Braintree July 17. 1774
Among many other agreable Things, ...

From Edward Hill -

ante 19 July 1774
This may serve to apologize for so ...

To John Tudor -

Braintree July 23. 1774
You will be Surprised I believe, ...

To William Tudor -

Braintree July 24. 1774
In this Retreat I promise myself, ...

To James Warren -

Braintree July 25. 1774
There never was I believe, a ...

From Joseph Hawley -

Northampton 25th July 1774
I never recd. nor heard of your ...

From Jonathan Williams -

Boston Monday Morg 25 July 1774
Your Letter was this Day delivered ...

From Edward Hill -

Boston July 29. 1774
Nothing could induce me to keep ...

From John Tudor -

Cambridge Augst. 1, 1774
I Received your favor of the 23d. ...

To William Tudor -

Braintree August 4. 1774
I have received from your Father, ...

From Edward Hill -

Boston Monday Augt. 8 1774
Saturday a Man of war arrived with ...

From John Trumbull -

Boston, Aug. 20, 1774
In the county of Worcester, the ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Augst. 21st. 1774
The great Obligations your ...

To William Tudor -

Prince Town New Jersey Aug. 28. 1774
I received your obliging Letter at ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Augst. 29th. 1774
I wrote you 21st. Inst. which I ...

From Joseph Hawley -

August? 1774
“We must fight, if we can't ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Sepr. 3d. 1774
This Week has been fruitfull of ...

From Edward Hill -

Boston August September 4th. 1774
I wrote you a fortnight ago by Mr. ...

Document Group: John Adams' Service in the Continental Congress

I. Heads of Grievances and Rights -

ante 9 September? 1774
Whereas since the Accession of the ...

II. Motion on Nonexportation and Defense -

30 September 1774
Resolved That the Province of the ...

III. To General Gage -

ante 10 October 1774
The Delegates from the Several ...

IV. The Bill of Rights; a List of Grievances -

14 Oct. 1774
Whereas, since the close of the ...

From Catharine Macaulay -

Sepbr 11. 1774
A Very long and uninterrupted ...

To William Tudor -

Phyladelphia Septr. 14, 1774
I have been so totally taken up, ...

From Joseph Palmer -

Boston, Sept. 14, 1774
The spirit of liberty is amazingly ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Sepr. 17th. 1774
Nothing very material has taken ...

To Josiah Quincy Jr. -

Philadelphia Septr. 18. 1774
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Septr. 22d. 1774
On my Return from Salem this ...

From Benjamin Kent -

Boston, Septr. 23, 1774
Our enemies, for their own further ...

From Edward Dilly -

London Sept 24th 1774
Your favor of the first of August ...

To Joseph Palmer -

Phyladelphia September 26. 1774
Yesterday I had the Pleasure of ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Sepr. 26th. 1774
Mr. Revere arriv'd late on friday ...

To William Tudor -

Philadelphia Septr. 29. 1774
I wish it was in my Power, to ...

To the Boston Committee of Correspondence -

September? 1774
As I am of the Opinion, that the ...

Samuel Swift to Thomas Cushing -

Octr. 2d 1774
Since I wrote you, Jealousies seem ...

To William Tudor -

Phyladelphia Octr. 7. 1774
I have just Time to thank you for ...

From Richard Cranch -

Boston, Oct. 15, 1774
I hear that a letter from one ...

From Samuel Cooper -

16th Oct. 1774
Having just been informed that Mr. ...

From James Warren -

Boston Octr the 16th: 1774
I Recd yours of the 18th Sepr with ...

From Samuel Swift -

Obr. 20. 74
Yours of the 30th. Ult. I Recd, by ...

Reply to A Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans -

post 17 November 1774
Enquire who is the Author? Whether ...

Document Group: John Adams' Service in the First Provincial Congress

To the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Towns and Districts of Massachusetts Bay -

[1774-12-10]
printed: Mass. Provincial ...

Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government -

[1774-12-10]
printed: Mass. Provincial ...

To Edward Biddle? -

Braintree Decr. 12. 1774
I received your kind favour 16. ...

Donation for the Boston Poor from Two Virginia Counties -

[1774-12-16]
LbC (MHi:Donations to Sufferers by ...

Donation for the Boston Poor from Chesterfield County, Virginia -

[1774-12-17]
LbC (MHi:Donations to Sufferers by ...

From James Warren -

Plymo: Decr. 19th:1774
It always gives me pleasure to ...

To James Burgh -

Braintree Decr. 28. 1774
I have had the Honour of receiving ...

To James Warren -

Braintree Jany. 3d. 1775
I have this Moment recd a Line ...

To Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree Jany 3. 17745
I remember, that Bishop Burnet in ...

From Edward Dilly -

London Jany 13th 1775
I Wrote to you the 24th of Septr ...

From James Warren -

Plymo. Jany. 15. 1775
I Admire the Notes and Resolves of ...

To a Friend in London -

January 21, 1775
“You have no doubt, long before ...

Document Group: The Letters of Novanglus

I. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

23 January 1775
A Writer, under the signature of ...

II. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

30 January 1775
I have heretofore intimated my ...

III. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

6 February 1775
The history of the Tories, begun ...

IV. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

13 February 1775
Massachusettensis, whose pen can ...

V. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

20 February 1775
We are at length arrived at the ...

VI. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

27 February 1775
Such events as the resistance to ...

VII. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

6 March 1775
Our rhetorical magician, in his ...

VIII. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

13 March 1775
It has been often observed by me, ...

VIII. (cont.). To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

20 March 1775
Wales was a little portion of the ...

IX. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

27 March 1775
Massachusettensis, in some of his ...

X. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

3 April 1775
Give me leave now to descend from ...

XI. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

10 April 1775
The cases of Wales and Ireland are ...

XII. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

17 April 1775
We now come to Jersey and ...

XIII. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay -

April 1775
Another Clause in the Charter, ...

From Samuel Swift -

1775. Monday Jany 30th
(a Memento for Tyrants as A man ...

From Mercy Otis Warren -

Plimouth January 30 1775
The very polite introduction to ...

Credentials of the Massachusetts Delegates to the Continental Congress -

In provincial Congress Cambridge Feby. 6th 1775
Resolved, that the Hon. John ...

To a Friend in London -

February 10, 1775
“The account you give of an ...

From James Warren -

Plymo. Feby. 20th 1775
I need not tell you that I was ...

Document Group: John Adams' Public Service in Braintree

I. Report of the Braintree Committee on the Continental Association -

Braintree,1775 March 15th.
The Committee appointed the Sixth ...

II. Report of the Braintree Committee respecting Minute Men -

Braintree,1775 March 15th
The Committee appointed to ...

From Samuel Swift -

13th. March 75
I have Read a specimen of Nov ...

To James Warren -

Braintree March 15. 1775
I have had the Pleasure and the ...

To Mercy Otis Warren -

Braintree March 15. 1775
I thought myself greatly honoured, ...

From James Warren -

Plym: March 15th 1775
With some difficulty I have ...

From John Waite -

FalmouthMarch 18th 1775
A sacred regard to the american ...

From Samuel Swift -

31. March 75
I was in hopes you would have just ...

To the Reverend Caleb Gannett -

ante 1 April 1775
It is not easy for me to determine ...

From William Tudor -

Boston Apl. 4th. 1775
The interesting Advices we rec'd ...

From Mercy Otis Warren -

Plimouth April 4th 1775
At the same time that I make my ...

Alexander McDougall to ? -

New York, 14 April 1775
This covers a Letter, and ...

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