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- “A.”
- “A” (newspaper pseudonym for Samuel Adams)
- AA
- AA2
- Aan het Volk van Nederland (To the People of the Netherlands)
- ABA
- Abatement, plea in
- Abatement of freehold, No. 17
- Abbadie, Jacques, Truth of Christian Religion
- Abbé de la Trappe
- Abbema, Balthasar Elias (of Amsterdam)
- Abbeville, France
- Abbington, Mass.
- Abbot, Abiel (Abbot 2d, H.C. 1787)
- Abbot, Abiel, Letters Written in the Interior of Cuba
- Abbot, Amos (of the Ranger)
- Abbot, Benjamin (H.C. 1788)
- Abbot, John (Harvard tutor)
- Abbot, Rev. John S. C.
- Abbot, Samuel
- Abbot, William Lovejoy (Abbot 1st, H.C. 1787)
- Abbot, Zebediah (of Andover, Mass.)
- Abbotts Langley, England
- Abdee, Phoebe (Adams family servant)
- Abdee, William (Adams family servant)
- 'Abd-ur-rahman Aga, Sidi Haggi (Tripoline ambassador)
- Abélard, Pierre
- Abercrombie, Lt. Col. James (British)
- Abercromby, Maj. Gen. James
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Aberdeen Arctic Co. v. Sutter
- Abernathy, Rev. John
- Abert, Lt. Col. John James, identified
- Abigail (Indian squaw)
- Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of (writer and composer)
- Abington, Frances (actress)
- Abington, Mass.
- Abney, Sir Thomas
- Åbo, Finland
- Abolition
- Aboville, François Marie, Comte d'
- A.B. papers affair
- Abraham, Mr. (in St. Petersburg)
- Abrantès, Laure Permon Junot, Duchesse d', Mémoires
- “Abstract Exhibiting the Condition of the Banks of Massachusetts”
- Académie française
- Académie royale de chirurgie
- Académie royale de musique
- Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
- Académie royale des sciences (Paris)
- Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
- Acadia
- Acadian exiles (French neutrals)
- Acceptor of bill of exchange, action against
- Accessory
- Accomac County, Va.
- Accomplice
- Account, action of, pleadings in
- Account annexed
- “Account of the Trial of Captain Preston” ... Annual Register for 1770
- Account stated, count on
- Achates
- Acheson, Archibald, 2d earl of Gosford
- Acrobats (in London)
- Acte van Consulentschap
- Actionnaire, L' (French ship of the line)
- Actions in law
- Active (Continental packet)
- Active (French frigate)
- Active (merchant ship)
- Active (sloop), case of
- Act of God, as excusing liability, No. 53
- Act of Settlement (1701)
- Act of Union (1707)
- Actors and actresses
- Adam (Biblical figure)
- Adam, Mr.
- Adam, Robert
- Adam brothers (English builders)
- Adams, Abigail, 2d (Nabby, Amelia, 1765-1813, daughter of AA and JA, wife of William Stephens Smith, designated as AA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Abigail Baxter (1634-1692, wife of Joseph)
- Adams, Abigail Brown Brooks (1808-1889, wife of Charles Francis, designated as ABA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Abigail Smith (1806-1845, daughter of TBA, later wife of John Angier)
- Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Alice (b. 1770, daughter of Ebenezer)
- Adams, Rev. Amos
- Adams, Ann (1731-1794)
- Adams, Ann (Nancy, 1773-1818, niece of JA)
- Adams, Anne Boylston (1706-1770, wife of Ebenezer)
- Adams, Ann Harrod (1774?-1845, wife of Thomas Boylston, designated as AHA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Mrs. (wife of Arthur)
- Adams, Arthur (1877-1943, son of JQA2)
- Adams, Benjamin, witness, No. 31
- Adams, Bethiah
- Adams, Betty
- Adams, Boylston (1771-1829, nephew of JA)
- Adams, Brooks (1848-1927, son of CFA, designated as BA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Capt., of Braintree
- Adams, Capt., master of Mass. privateer
- Adams, Charles (1770-1800, son of AA and JA, designated as CA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Charles Francis (of Dover, Mass.)
- Adams, Charles Francis, 2d (1835-1915, son of ABA and CFA, designated as CFA2 in The Adams Papers
- Adams, Charles Francis (1866-1954, designated as CFA3 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Charles Frederick (of Boston)
- Adams, Daniel (pump- and blockmaker)
- Adams, Deborah
- Adams, Deacon Ebenezer (1737-1791, cousin of JA)
- Adams, Ebenezer (1704-1769, uncle of JA)
- Adams, Rev. Ebenezer (1726-1764, cousin of JA)
- Adams, Deacon Ebenezer (1762-1841)
- Adams, Ebenezer, juror, No. 59
- Adams, Edith Squire (1587-1673, wife of Henry)
- Adams, Edward, in No. 43
- Adams, Elihu (1741-1775, brother of JA)
- Adams, Elisha (ca. 1770-1819, nephew of JA)
- Adams, Elizabeth (stillborn daughter of AA and JA, 11 July 1777)
- Adams, Elizabeth (1766-1852, daughter of Zabdiel)
- Adams, Elizabeth (b. & d. 1780, niece of JA)
- Adams, Elizabeth Anne Crosby (wife of Boylston)
- Adams, Elizabeth Coombs (1808-1903, daughter of TBA, designated as ECA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Elizabeth Rawson (wife of Peter)
- Adams, Elizabeth Stearns (1742-1800, wife of Zabdiel)
- Adams, Elizabeth Welles (wife of Samuel)
- Adams, Frances Foster (1811-1812, daughter of TBA)
- Adams, George
- Adams, Georgeanna Frances (1830-1839, daughter of JA2)
- Adams, George Washington (1801-1829, son of JQA and LCA, designated as GWA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Hannah (daughter of Samuel)
- Adams, Hannah (1755-1831)
- Adams, Hannah (b. 1698)
- Adams, Hannah Bass (1662-1705, wife of Joseph)
- Adams, Henry (1838-1918, son of CFA, designated as HA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Henry (ca. 1583-1646)
- Adams, Henry, 2d (1875-1951, great-great-grandson of AA and JA, designated as HA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Isaac (Harvard student)
- Adams, Isaac Hull (1813-1900, son of TBA)
- Adams, James
- Adams, James, deposition, No. 29
- Adams, Jasper
- Adams, Deacon John (1691-1761, father of JA)
- Adams, John (JA's nephew, 1768-1835)
- Adams, Lt. John (ex-prisoner)
- Adams, John (1622-1706)
- Adams, John (1661-1702)
- Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Mrs. John
- Adams, John (1875-1964, president, Massachusetts Historical Society)
- Adams, John, 2d (1803-1834, son of JQA and LCA, designated as JA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, John, D.D. (1662-1720), CFA reads sermon
- Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848, son of AA and JA, designated as JQA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, John Quincy (1815-1854, son of TBA, called “JQA Jr.”)
- Adams, John Quincy (1922-1987, trustee, Adams Manuscript Trust)
- Adams, John Quincy, 2d (1833-1894, son of ABA and CFA, designated as JQA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Dr. Joseph (d. 1803)
- Adams, Joseph (of the Alliance)
- Adams, Joseph (1626-1694)
- Adams, Joseph (1654-1737, grandfather of JA)
- Adams, Rev. Joseph (1689-1783, uncle of JA, of Newington, N.H.)
- Adams, Dr. Joseph (1723-1801)
- Adams, Joseph Harrod (1817-1853, son of TBA)
- Adams, Joseph T. (ed., Columbian Centinel)
- Adams, Josiah (1696-1802)
- Adams, Deacon Josiah (1763-1844)
- Adams, Josiah, Jr. (1792-1882)
- Adams, J. Q. (printer)
- Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775-1852, wife of John Quincy, designated as LCA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Louisa Catherine (1831-1870, daughter of ABA and CFA, later wife of Charles Kuhn, designated as LCA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Love Lawrence (wife of Joseph)
- Adams, Marian Hooper (1842-1885, wife of Henry, designated as MHA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Mary (1845-1928, daughter of ABA and CFA, later wife of Henry Parker Quincy, designated as MA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Mary (Polly, 1769-1830, niece of JA, later wife of Elisha Turner)
- Adams, Mary Catherine Hellen (1806?-1870, wife of John 2d, designated as MCHA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Mary Crosby (1749-1780, wife of Peter Boylston, sister-in-law of JA)
- Adams, Mary Louisa (1828-1859, daughter of JA2, later wife of William Clarkson Johnson)
- Adams, Mehitable Spear (1737-1814, wife of Ebenezer)
- Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Micajah (1742-1769, JA's cousin)
- Adams, Miss (daughter of Samuel)
- Adams, Moses (1733-1778)
- Adams, Mr. (director of Quincy Lyceum)
- Adams, Mr. (of Quincy)
- Adams, Mr. (of Roxbury)
- Adams, Mr. (son of Samuel)
- Adams, Mrs. N. (of Medford)
- Adams, Peter (b. 1700, cousin of Deacon John Adams)
- Adams, Peter Boylston (1738-1823, brother of JA)
- Adams, Rev. Phineas (of Haverhill)
- Adams, Randolph G., New Light on the Boston Massacre
- Adams, Capt. Robert (of the Little Hannah)
- Adams, Ruth
- Adams, Ruth Ruggles (wife of William)
- Adams, Dr. Samuel
- Adams, Samuel (1689-1748)
- Adams, Samuel (1722-1803, 2d cousin of JA)
- Adams, Samuel (N.Y. physician)
- Adams, Dr. Samuel, Jr. (1751-1788)
- Adams, Sarah Smith (1769-1828, wife of Charles, designated as SSA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Solomon (Adams 2d, H.C. 1788)
- Adams, Susanna (1766-1826, daughter of Elihu Adams and niece of JA, later wife of Aaron Hobart Jr.)
- Adams, Susanna (1768-1770, daughter of AA and JA, called “Suky”)
- Adams, Susanna (1775-1776, daughter of Peter B. Adams and niece of JA)
- Adams, Susanna (Sukey, 1777-1816, daughter of Peter B. Adams and niece of JA, later wife of Darius Boardman)
- Adams, Susanna Boylston
- Adams, Susanna Boylston (1709-1797, mother of JA, later wife of John Hall)
- Adams, T. (Quincy tax collector)
- Adams, Thankful (1747-1822, wife of Elihu, sister-in-law of JA)
- Adams, Thomas (Adams 3d, H.C. 1788)
- Adams, Thomas, witness, No. 34
- Adams, Thomas (Boston printer)
- Adams, Thomas (delegate from Va.)
- Adams, Thomas (of Medfield, Mass.), identified
- Adams, Thomas (of the Ranger)
- Adams, Thomas (proprietor of Massachusetts Bay Company)
- Adams, Thomas Boylston (1772-1832, son of AA and JA, designated as TBA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Thomas Boylston, Jr. (1809-1837, son of TBA)
- Adams, Thomas Boylston (1910-1997, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society)
- Adams, William (of Hopkinton)
- Adams, William (of the Middle Temple)
- Adams, Capt. Winburn
- Adams, Rev. Zabdiel (1739-1801, cousin of JA)
- Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass.
- Adams Bibliography
- Adams-Clement Collection, Smithsonian Institution
- Adams-Cranch-Palmer circle in Braintree
- “Adams faction”
- Adams family
- Adams Family Correspondence
- Adams family library (Stone Library)
- Adams Genealogy
- Adams Legal Papers
- Adams Manuscript Trust
- Adams Massacre Minutes, described
- Adams Memorial Society
- Adams National Historical Park (Old House; Vassall-Borland house)
- Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
- Adams Papers
- Adams Temple and School Fund
- Adams v. Bowditch
- Adams v. Brown
- Adams v. Cordis
- Adams v. Eddy
- Adams v. Penniman
- Adams v. Whitmarsh
- Adan, John Richardson
- Ad damnum, defined
- Addenet, Mr. (translator)
- Addington, Henry Unwin (British chargé in Washington)
- Addington, Isaac
- Addington, Justice (British)
- Addington, William
- Addison, Joseph (British author)
- Addison v. Row
- Addition (pleading term)
- “Address, Petition, and Remonstrance in favor of the Americans presented by the City of London to the King”
- Addresses of the Successive Presidents of the United States to Both Houses of Congress
- “Address to the Inhabitants of Great Britain,” adopted by Continental Congress in 1775
- “Address to the People of the United States”
- Adélaïde (aunt of Louis XVI)
- Adhémar, Jean Balthazar, Comte d' (French ambassador to Britain)
- Administration Dissected
- Administration of estates, in Mass.
- Administration of Justice Act (1774)
- Administrative law
- Administrator, action by
- Admiraal de Ruyter (Dutch ship of the line)
- Admiraal Generaal (Dutch ship of the line)
- Admiraal Piet Hein (Dutch ship of the line)
- Admiral (Amiral?, French prison ship)
- Admiral Keppel (British privateer)
- Admiralty
- Admiralty, Board of (U.S.)
- Admiralty, droits of
- Admiralty, High Court of (British)
- Admiralty Book, JA's
- Admiralty courts
- Admiralty law
- Admiralty Office, British
- Admonition in church discipline
- Adonis
- Adultery
- Adventure (Amer. brigantine, later Penelope)
- Adventurer, The
- Advertizer (Philadelphia)
- Advocate general in Admiralty, position offered to JA
- Advocate General v. David Plummer, Moses Bray, Daniel Plummer, Peter Clowning, Daniel Trew, Joseph Eveleth, and Thomas Corbin
- Advowson, writs of right of
- Aelian
- Aeneas
- Aeschines (Athenian orator)
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Amérique
- Affair of Honor, The (farce)
- Affidavits, of English witnesses in colonial suits, No. 12
- Affirmation
- Affray, sudden
- Affreightment, charter party of
- Africa and Africans
- African Americans
- Africanus, Scipio (of the Ranger)
- Afrin, Joseph (of the Ranger)
- Agamentacus Mountain, Maine
- Agnue, William, witness, No. 61
- Agreement, commonplaced
- Agreements, executory
- Agriculture
- Agrippina
- Aguesseau, Henri François de
- Ahlströmer, Baron Clas
- Ahlströmer, Baron Patrick
- Aid, the, defined
- Aigle (French frigate)
- Aiguillon, Duc d' (French minister of war and foreign affairs)
- Aiken, Jonathan (prisoner at Granville, France)
- Aikin, John, Select Works of the British Poets
- Aikley
- Ainsworth, Robert
- Aitken, James (“John the Painter”), identified
- Aitkin, Robert (printer)
- Aitkins, Silas, challenged juror, No. 64
- Aix, Ile de, France
- Aix-en-Provence, France
- Aix-la-Chapelle, France
- Ajax
- Akenside, Mark
- Alabama (ship), claims
- Alabama, bank reports of
- Alagnac, M. d'
- Aland, Sir John Fortescue, Reports of Cases
- Ålands Sea
- Alaric
- Alaska
- Alava, Spain
- Alba Longa
- Albany (British sloop of war)
- Albany (formerly Aurania), N.Y., Dutch settlement of
- Albany (ship)
- Albany, N.Y.
- Albany Congress (1754)
- Albany Convention
- Albany Plan of Union
- “Albany Regency”
- Albany Road
- Albedhyll, Baron Gustaf von (Swedish chargé d'affaires at St. Petersburg)
- Albemarle, Duke of
- Alberda (of The Hague)
- Albert (CFA's manservant)
- Albert I, king of Austria
- Albertine, or The Heart's Three Trials
- “Alberts,” early German kings
- Albigenses
- Albion, The
- Al Borak
- Alcaeus
- Alcibiades
- Alcman, Everett on
- Alcock, Joseph, plaintiff, No. 8
- Alcock v. Warden, No. 8
- Alcott, Amos Bronson
- Alden, Briggs
- Alden, Col., conveys letters between Mary Nicolson and AA
- Alden, John
- Alden, Rev. Noah, witness, No. 37
- Alden, Priscilla
- Alden, Timothy
- Alden family
- Alderney, Channel Islands
- Aldridge (of Uxbridge, Mass.)
- Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (French writer)
- Alert (British cutter)
- Alewives, laws regarding
- Alexander (Amer. ship)
- Alexander, Capt. Charles (of the Delaware)
- Alexander, Francis (artist)
- Alexander, John, & Company, in No. 8
- Alexander, Mariamne
- Alexander, Mr. (from Scotland living in France)
- Alexander, Robert (delegate from Md.)
- Alexander, Sir William (Scottish nobleman)
- Alexander, William (banker)
- Alexander, William, Jr.
- Alexander, Maj. Gen. William (Lord Stirling, U.S.)
- Alexander family (from Scotland living in France)
- Alexander I, Czar of Russia
- Alexander the Coppersmith
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander VI, Pope
- Alexandre (French ship of the line)
- Alexandre (Russian merchant ship)
- Alexandria, Va.
- Alfred (Continental ship)
- Alfred the Great
- Algeciras, Spain
- Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, Dumas collection in
- Alger, Rev. Horatio
- Algiers and Algerines
- Alicante, Spain
- Alien Act
- Alimony
- Alison, Archibald, Essays on ... Taste
- Alison, Rev. Francis
- Alkmaar, Netherlands
- All, Capt. Isaac
- Allaire, Peter (N.Y. merchant and Brit. agent)
- Allamand, Jean Nicolas Sébastien (professor at Leyden)
- Allan, Hon. (prisoner of war)
- Allan, Mr.
- Allatius de Patria Homeri
- Allcock, William (Amer. prisoner)
- Allegheny College
- Allegheny Mountains
- Allen, Rev.
- Allen, Mr. (in Continental Army)
- Allen, Mr. (retired London wine merchant)
- Allen (tavernkeeper of Biddeford, Maine)
- Allen, Mr. (youth of Braintree)
- Allen, Andrew (son of former Chief Justice William)
- Allen, Dr. Benjamin (apothecary)
- Allen, Betsey (daughter of Jonathan)
- Allen, Ebenezer, witness, No. 1
- Allen, Elizabeth Kent (wife of Jonathan)
- Allen, Ethan
- Allen, Heman (Ethan's brother)
- Allen, J. (brother of Jeremiah Allen)
- Allen, James (CFA's classmate)
- Allen, James (of Philadelphia)
- Allen, Jeremiah (of Boston)
- Allen, J. M., & Co. (auctioneers)
- Allen, John (of Boston)
- Allen, John (of Nova Scotia)
- Allen, John, Oration on the Beauties of Liberty
- Allen, Jolley
- Allen, Deacon Jonathan (of Braintree)
- Allen, Rev. Jonathan (of Bradford, Mass.)
- Allen, Mr. (of Martha's Vineyard)
- Allen, Mr.
- Allen, Mr. (of Phila.)
- Allen, Mr., carries letters between JA and AA
- Allen, Mr. (father of John)
- Allen(?), Mr. (of Braintree)
- Allen (Atlen), Mr. (Brit. banker)
- Allen, Mrs., witness, No. 29
- Allen, Phineas (CFA's classmate)
- Allen, Robert
- Allen, Robert (coroner)
- Allen, Samuel
- Allen, Samuel Clesson (U.S. Repr., Mass.), identified
- Allen, S. C. (Workingmen's party candidate)
- Allen, Thomas (of the Madisonian)
- Allen, William
- Allen, William (former chief justice of Penn.)
- Allen, William (of the Ranger)
- Allen, William, Jr.
- Allen family (of Philadelphia)
- Allentown, Penn.
- Alleyne, Abel (of Braintree)
- Alleyne, Thomas (of Braintree)
- Alleyne, Mrs. (wife of Thomas)
- Alliance (Continental frigate)
- Alliance, term defined
- Alligator (British privateer)
- Allin, Mr. (of Braintree)
- Allin, Capt. (of Braintree)
- Alline, Henry (secretary of Kennebec Co.)
- Alline, Henry, Jr., letter to JA listed
- Allison (artist)
- Allison, Rev. Francis
- Allison, James, Jr. (U.S. Repr., Penn.)
- Allison, Rev. Patrick
- Allston, Ann Channing (1st wife of Washington)
- Allston, Washington
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Allyn, Capt. Francis, identified
- Allyne, John (H.C. 1785)
- Allyne, Mary
- Almanach royal
- Almanacs
- Almeida, Don Joas Theolonico de
- Almeida Beja e Noronha, João Theotonio de (Portuguese envoy to the Netherlands)
- Almodóvar, Pedro de Luxan y Silva, Marquis de (Spanish ambassador to Britain)
- Almon, John (London publisher)
- Almy, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
- Almy, Miss
- Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- Alphonsus, King
- Alsace, France
- Alsburn
- Alsop, John (of N.Y.)
- Alsop, Mary (daughter of John)
- Alsop, Mrs.
- Alsop, Richard
- Alsop v. Ruttenbergh
- Alston, Joseph and Theodosia Burr
- Alteration of instrument, No. 7
- Altinaa, Mme. (widow of Amsterdam)
- Alton, England
- Alton, Ill.
- Alum
- “Alva Gage,” JA's nickname for Thomas Gage
- “A.Z.,” letter to Boston Censor