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  Adams Genealogy
• A set of genealogical charts and a concise biographical register of the Adams family in the Presidential line and of closely related families from the 17th through the 19th century. The Adams Genealogy is now being compiled and will be published as a part of The Adams Papers.
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  Adams Papers
• Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (see below). The location of materials in the Letterbooks and in the volumes of Miscellany is given more fully and, if the original would be hard to locate, by the microfilm reel number.
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  Adams Papers, Microfilms
• The corpus of the Adams Papers, 1639–1889, as published on microfilm by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954–1959, in 608 reels. Cited in the present work, when necessary, by reel number. Available in research libraries throughout the United States and in a few libraries in Europe.
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  The Adams Papers
• The present edition in letterpress, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. References to earlier volumes of any given unit will take this form: vol. 2:146. Since there will be no over-all volume numbering for the edition, references from one series, or unit of a series, to another will be by title, volume, and page; for example, JA, Diary and Autobiography, 4:205.
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  Arch. Aff. Etr., Corr. Pol., E.-U., Paris
• Archives Affaires Etrangères, Correspondance Politique, Etats-Unis, Paris.
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  PCC
• Papers of the Continental Congress. Originals in the National Archives: Record Group 360. Microfilm edition in 204 reels. Usually cited in the present work from the microfilms, but according to the original series and volume numbering devised in the State Department in the early 19th century; for example, PCC, No. 93, III, i.e. the third volume of series 93.
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  P.R.O.
• Public Record Office, London.
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  Quincy, First Church, MS Records
• First Church of Quincy, Mass., MS Records, 1639–1854.
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  RG
• Record Group. Used, with appropriate numbers, to designate the location of documents in the National Archives.
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  Thwing Catalogue, MHi
• Annie Haven Thwing, comp., Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800; typed card catalogue, with supplementary bound typescripts, in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited

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  AA, Letters, ed. CFA, 1840
• Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1840.
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  AA2, Jour. and Corr.
• Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, Daughter of John Adams, . . . edited by Her Daughter [Caroline Amelia (Smith) de Windt], New York and London, 1841–[1849]; 3 vols.
  Note: Vol. [1], unnumbered, has title and date: Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, 1841; vol. 2 has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams . . . Vol. II, 1842; vol. [3] has title, volume number, and date: Correspondence of Miss Adams . . ., Vol. II, 1842[!], i.e. same as vol. 2, but preface is signed “April 3d, 1849”[!], and the volume contains as “Part II” a complete reprinting from same type, and with same pagination, of vol. 2 (i.e. “Vol. II”), above, originally issued in 1842.
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  Adams Family Correspondence
• Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– .
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  AHR
• American Historical Review.
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  Ann. Register
• The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, ed. Edmund Burke and others, London, 1759– .
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  Appletons' Cyclo. Amer. Biog.
• James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, New York, 1887–1889; 6 vols.
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  Austin, Gerry
• James T. Austin, The Life of Elbridge Gerry. With Contemporary Letters, Boston, 1828–1829; 2 vols. [Vol. 1:] To the Close of the American Revolution; [vol. 2:] From the Close of the American Revolution.
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  Bailyn, ed., Pamphlets
• Bernard Bailyn, ed., Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750–1776, Cambridge, 1965– .
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  Barry, History of Mass.
• John Stetson Barry, The History of Massachusetts, Boston, 1855–1857; 3 vols.
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  Bemis, Diplomacy of the Amer. Revolution
• Samuel Flagg Bemis, The Diplomacy of the American Revolution: The Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775–1823, New York and London, 1935.
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  Biog. Dir. Cong.
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949, Washington, 1950.
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  Black, Law Dictionary
• Henry Campbell Black, A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence Ancient and Modern, 2d edn., St. Paul, Minn., 1910.
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  BM, Catalogue
• The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881–1900, Ann Arbor, 1946; 58 vols. Supplement, 1900–1905, Ann Arbor, 1950; 10 vols.
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  BN, Catalogue
• Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), Catalogue générale des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale: Auteurs, Paris, 1897– .
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  Boston Record Commissioners, Reports
• City of Boston, Record Commissioners, Reports, Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols.
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  Braintree Town Records
• Samuel A. Bates, ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, Mass., 1886.
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  Brooks, Medford
• Charles Brooks, History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, From its First Settlement in 1630 to 1855, rev. . . . by James M. Usher, Boston, 1886.
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  Burnett, Continental Congress
• Edmund C. Burnett, The Continental Congress, New York, 1941.
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  Burnett, ed., Letters of Members
• Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, 1921–1936; 8 vols.
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  Cal. Franklin Papers, A.P.S.
• I. Minis Hays, comp., Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1908; 5 vols.
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  Catalogue of JA's Library
• Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917.
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  Catalogue of JQA's Books
• Worthington C. Ford, ed., A Catalogue of the Books of John Quincy Adams Deposited in the Boston Athenaeum. With Notes on Books, Adams Seals and Book-Plates, by Henry Adams, Boston, 1938.
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  CFA, Diary
• Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Cambridge, 1964– . Vols. 1–2, ed. Aïda DiPace Donald and David Donald; vols. 3–4, ed. Marc Friedlaender and L. H. Butterfield.
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  Col. Soc. Mass., Pubns.
• Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Publications.
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  Commonwealth Hist. of Mass.
• Albert Bushnell Hart, ed., Commonwealth History of Massachusetts: Colony, Province and State, New York, 1927–1930; 5 vols.
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  Cushing, History of the Transition
• Harry A. Cushing, History of the Transition from Provincial to Commonwealth Government in Massachusetts (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, vol. 7, no. 1), New York, 1896.
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  DAB
• Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–1936; 20 vols. plus index and supplements.
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  DAH
• James Truslow Adams and R. V. Coleman, eds., Dictionary of American History, New York, 1940; 5 vols. and index.
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  Deane Papers
• Papers of Silas Deane, 1774–1790, in New-York Historical Society, Collections, Publication Fund Series, vols. 19–23, New York, 1887–1891; 5 vols.
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  Dexter, Yale Graduates
• Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, with Annals of the College History, New York, 1885–1912; 6 vols.
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  Dezallier, Environs de Paris, 1779
• [Antoine Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville,] Voyage pittoresque des environs de Paris, 4e. édn., Paris, 1779.
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  Dict. Amer. Fighting Ships
• U.S. Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Washington, 1959– .
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  Dict. historique de la ville de Paris, 1779
• Pierre Thomas Nicolas Hurtaut and —— Magny, Dictionnaire historique de la ville de Paris et de ses environs . . ., Paris, 1779; 4 vols.
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  DNB
• Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The Dictionary of National Biography, New York and London, 1885–1900; 63 vols. plus supplements.
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  Essex Inst., Hist. Colls.
• Essex Institute Historical Collections.
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  Evans
• Charles Evans and others, comps., American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols.
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  Ford, Mass. Broadsides
• [Worthington C. Ford, comp.,] Broadsides, Ballads &c. Printed in Massachusetts, 1639–1800 (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vol. 75), Boston, 1922.
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  Ford, ed., Statesman and Friend
• Worthington C. Ford, ed., Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784–1822, Boston, 1927.
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  Franklin, Papers, ed. Labaree and Willcox
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox (from vol. 15), and others, New Haven, 1959– .
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  Franklin, Writings, ed. Smyth
• The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert Henry Smyth, New York and London, 1905–1907; 10 vols.
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  Gérard, Despatches and Instructions
• Despatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 1778–1780: Correspondence of the First French Minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes, ed. John J. Meng, Baltimore, 1939.
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  Gottschalk, Lafayette
• Louis Gottschalk, Lafayette, Chicago, 1935–1950; 4 vols. [Vol. 1:] Lafayette Comes to America; [vol. 2:] Lafayette Joins the American Army; [vol. 3:] Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution; [vol. 4:] Lafayette between the American and the French Revolution (1783–1789).
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  Grandmother Tyler's Book
• Frederick Tupper and Helen Tyler Brown, eds., Grandmother Tyler's Book: The Recollections of Mary Palmer Tyler (Mrs. Royall Tyler), 1775–1866, New York and London, 1925.
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  Haraszti, JA and the Prophets of Progress
• Zoltán Haraszti, John Adams and the Prophets of Progress, Cambridge, 1952.
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  Harper's Dict. of Classical Lit.
• Harry Thurston Peck, ed., Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, New York, 1898.
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  Harvard Quinquennial Cat.
• Harvard University, Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636–1930, Cambridge, 1930.
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  Heitman, Register Continental Army
• Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, new edn., Washington, 1914.
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  Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale
• J. C. F. Hoefer, ed., Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1852–1866; 46 vols.
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  Hutchinson, Diary and Letters
• The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, ed. Peter Orlando Hutchinson, Boston, 1884–1886; 2 vols.
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  JA, Collection of State-Papers, 1782
• [JA, comp.,] A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgement of the Sovereignity[!] of the United States of America, and the Reception of Their Minister Plenipotentiary, by Their High-Mightinesses the States-General of the United Netherlands, The Hague, 1782.
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  JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot
• Correspondence of the Late President Adams. Originally Published in the Boston Patriot. In a Series of Letters, Boston, 1809[–1810]; 10 pts.
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  JA, Diary and Autobiography
• Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols.
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  JA, Earliest Diary
• The Earliest Diary of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966.
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  JA, Legal Papers
• Legal Papers of John Adams, ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Cambridge, 1965; 3 vols.
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  JA, Works
• The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856; 10 vols.
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  JA-AA, Familiar Letters
• Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution. With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, New York, 1876.
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  Jay, Correspondence and Public Papers
• The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, ed. Henry P. Johnston, New York and London, 1890–1893; 4 vols.
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  JCC
• Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols.
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  Jefferson, Papers, ed. Boyd
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd and others, Princeton, 1950– .
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  Jones, Loyalists of Mass.
• E. Alfred Jones, The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions and Claims, London, 1930.
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  JQA, Memoirs
• Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Philadelphia, 1874–1877; 12 vols.
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  Kelly, Amer. Medical Biog.
• Howard A. Kelly, A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography . . . from 1610 to 1910, Philadelphia and London, 1912; 2 vols.
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  Lasseray, Les français sous les treize étoiles
• André Lasseray, Les français sous les treize étoiles (1775–1783), Macon and Paris, 1935; 2 vols.
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  LC, Catalog
• A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards, Ann Arbor, 1942–1946; 167 vols. Supplement, Ann Arbor, 1948; 42 vols.
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  R.H. Lee, Letters, ed. Ballagh
• The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, ed. James C. Ballagh, New York, 1911–1914; 2 vols.
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  Lüthy, La banque protestante en France
• Herbert Lüthy, La banque protestante en France de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes à la Révolution, Paris, 1959–1961; 2 vols.
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  Madison, Papers, ed. Hutchinson
• The Papers of James Madison, eds. William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal, Chicago, 1962– .
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  Mass., Acts and Laws
• Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1780–1805], Boston, 1890–1898; 13 vols.
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  Mass. Constitutional Convention, 1779–1780, Journal
• Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay, . . . September 1, 1779, . . . to June 16, 1780, Boston, 1832.
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  Mass., House Jour.
• Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts [1715– ], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919– . (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.)
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  Mass., Province Laws
• The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1869–1922; 21 vols.
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  Mass. Soldiers and Sailors
• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Boston, 1896–1908; 17 vols.
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  MHS, Colls., Procs.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections and Proceedings.
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  Miller, ed., Treaties
• Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Washington, 1931–1948; 8 vols.
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  Monaghan, John Jay
• Frank Monaghan, John Jay, Defender of Liberty . . ., New York and Indianapolis, 1935.
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  Morison, H. G. Otis
• Samuel Eliot Morison, The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765–1848, Boston and New York, 1913; 2 vols.
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  Morris, Peacemakers
• Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, New York, 1965.
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  NEHGR
• New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
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  NEQ
• New England Quarterly.
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  Nieuw Ned. Biog. Woordenboek
• P. C. Molhuysen and others, eds., Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, Leyden, 1911–1937; 10 vols.
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  OED
• The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement.
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  Oliver, Portraits of JA and AA
• Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John and Abigail Adams, Cambridge, 1967.
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  Oliver, Portraits of JQA and His Wife
• Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife, Cambridge, 1970.
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  Paige, Hist. of Cambridge, Mass.
• Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630–1877. With a Genealogical Register, Boston and New York, 1877. Supplement and Index . . ., by Mary I. Gozzaldi, Cambridge, 1930.
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  Parliamentary Hist.
• The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, London: Hansard, 1806–1820; 36 vols.
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  Pattee, Old Braintree and Quincy
• William S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, with a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook, Quincy, 1878.
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  PMHB
• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
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  Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreten aller Länder
• Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreten aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), ed. Ludwig Bittner and others, Oldenburg, &c., 1936–1965; 3 vols.
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  Benjamin Rush, Letters
• Letters of Benjamin Rush, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Princeton, 1951; 2 vols.
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  Sabin
• Joseph Sabin and others, comps., A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, New York, 1868–1936; 29 vols.
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  Sabine, Loyalists
• Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay, Boston, 1864; 2 vols.
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  Sheppard, Tucker
• John H. Sheppard, The Life of Samuel Tucker, Commodore in the American Revolution, Boston, 1868.
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  Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates
• John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Boston, 1873– .
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  Stevens, Facsimiles
• B. F. Stevens's Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, 1773–1783, London, 1889–1898; 25 vols.
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  Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island
• I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498–1919, New York, 1915–1928; 6 vols.
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  Thiéry, Almanach du voyageur à Paris
• Luc Vincent Thiéry, Almanach du voyageur à Paris . . ., année 1784, Paris [1784].
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  John Trumbull, Autobiography, ed. Sizer, 1953
• The Autobiography of Colonel John Trumbull, Patriot-Artist, 1756–1843, ed. Theodore Sizer, New Haven, 1953.
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  Van der Kemp, Autobiography
• Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 1752–1829: An Autobiography, Together with Extracts from His Correspondence, ed. Helen Lincklaen Fairchild, New York and London, 1903.
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  Van Doren, Secret History
• Carl Van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution, New York, 1941.
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  Walpole, Corr., ed. W. S. Lewis
• The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, ed. W. S. Lewis and others, New Haven, 1937– .
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  Warren-Adams Letters
• Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren (Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, vols. 72–73), Boston, 1917–1925; 2 vols.
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  Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick
• The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931–1944; 39 vols.
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  Washington, Writings, ed. Sparks
• The Writings of George Washington, . . . with a Life of the Author, ed. Jared Sparks, Boston, 1839–1840; 12 vols.
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  Weis, Colonial Clergy of N.E.
• Frederick Lewis Weis, comp., The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, Lancaster, Mass., 1936.
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  Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
• Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols.
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  WMQ
• William and Mary Quarterly.