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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):

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promotes sale of U.S. whale oil to France8

AFC07

promotes U.S. sugar manufacturing5

Sons of Liberty4

PJA01
PJA02
116

arranges correspondence between Mass. and French medical societies3

AFC07

role in treaties with Great Britain3

EJA01
18
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24

signs petitions3

PJA01

and possible constitutional convention2

AFC07

arranges for Houdon's life insurance2

AFC06

assists Elizabeth Otis Brown in recovering inheritance2

AFC07

Frenchman solicits recommendation of wine from2

AFC06

gets Benjamin Newcombe released from Mill Prison2

AFC05

Harvard honors public service of2

AFC05
484
AFC06
12

Mably dedicates Observations sur le gouvernement . . . des Etats-Unis to2

AFC05

privately meets British leaders (1783)2

AFC05

receives news about unrest in Mass.2

AFC07

receives report of Annapolis Convention2

AFC07

receives requests to return to Mass.2

AFC07

recommends Winslow Warren as consul to Portugal2

AFC06

writes fewer non-family letters2

PJA05

AA on effect of political situations on1

AFC07
189

advises Livingston on trade in sugar and whale oil1

AFC07

appointed first U.S. minister to Court of St. James's1

EJA01
26

assists U.S. prisoners1

AFC07
134

blames Franklin and the French for Dana's failure in Russia1

AFC05

contacts French medical societies for Cotton Tufts1

AFC05
169

Continental Congress, First, reason for his appointment to1

PJA04
408

departure for Europe (1778)1

EJA01
17

diplomatic mission in Netherlands1

EJA01

elected to Supporters of the Bill of Rights1

PJA01
353

in Continental Congress1

EJA01
35

loans own money to Braintree prisoners of war1

AFC05

meets Lord George Gordon1

AFC06
172

president of Amer. Academy of Arts and Sciences1

EJA01
35

promotes plan for Amer. whale oil to illuminate French cities1

AFC05
464

recommends Thaxter to Congress1

AFC05
x

relationship with Lafayette1

AFC06
141

remarks on “Anglomanes” in Europe1

AFC05
10

reports signing of U.S.-Sweden treaty1

AFC05
98

satirizes Congress' easy treatment of Silas Deane1

AFC05
164

Storer seeks federal offices from (1790s)1

AFC05
ix

Summarized1

PJA01

tries to arrange for Winslow Warren to become consul at Lisbon1

AFC07
152

writes letters of introduction for young Chaumont1

AFC06

W. S. Shaw as secretary (1790s)1

AFC05
269

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