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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 the Miscellany is given more fully, and often, if the original would be hard to locate, by the microfilm reel number.
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  Adams Papers Editorial Files
• Other materials in the Adams Papers editorial office, Massachusetts Historical Society. These include photoduplicated documents (normally cited by the location of the originals), photographs, correspondence, and bibliographical and other aids compiled and accumulated by the editorial staff.
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  Adams Papers, Fourth Generation
• Adams manuscripts dating 1890 or later, now separated from the Trust collection and administered by the Massachusetts Historical Society on the same footing with its other manuscript collections.
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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 between volumes of any given unit will take this form: vol. 3:171. 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, JQA, Papers, 4:205.
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  Corr. pol.
• Correspondance politique, in the Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris.
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  PCC
• Papers of the Continental Congress. Originals in the National Archives; microfilm edition, completed in 1961, 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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  Quincy, First Church, MS Records
• First Church of Quincy, Mass., MS Records, 1639–1854; transcript in possession of William C. Edwards, city historian.
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  Quincy Town Records, 1791–1891
• Quincy, Mass., MS Town Records, 1791–1891, 6 vols., in the archives of the City of Quincy; positive microfilm, 2 reels, in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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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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  Suffolk County Court House, Early Court Files, &c.
• Early Court Files and Miscellaneous Papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Suffolk County, Suffolk County Court House, Boston.
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  Superior Court of Judicature, Minute Books, Records
• Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, Minute Books and Records in the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, Suffolk County, Suffolk County Court House, Boston.
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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 Massachusetts Historical Society.

Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited

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  AA, Letters, ed. CFA, 1848
• Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. With an Introductory Memoir by Her Grandson, Charles Francis Adams, 4th edn., Boston, 1848.
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  AA, New Letters
• New Letters of Abigail Adams, 1788–1801, ed. Stewart Mitchell, Boston, 1947.
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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, 1841–1842; 2 vols.
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  A. N. Adams, Geneal. Hist, of Henry Adams of Braintree
• Andrew N. Adams, A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants, Rutland, Vt., 1898.
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  Samuel Adams, Writings
• The Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. Harry Alonzo Cushing, New York and London, 1904–1908; 4 vols.
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  AHR
• American Historical Review.
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  Almanach royal, 1778 [and later years]
• Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LXXVII [&c.]. Présenté à sa majèsté pour la première fois en 1699, Paris, no date.
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  Annals of Congress
• The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States [1789–1824], Washington, 1834–1856; 42 vols.
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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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  Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire
• J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants, New York, 1927.
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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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  Bemis, JQA
• Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams, New York, 1949–1956; 2 vols. [Vol. 1:] John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; [vol. 2:] John Quincy Adams and the Union.
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  Biddle, Old Family Letters
• Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle, Series A, Philadelphia, 1892.
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  Biog. Dir. Cong.
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949, Washington, 1950.
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  Blanck, Bibliog. Amer. Lit.
• Jacob Blanck, comp., Bibliography of American Literature ... Compiled for the Bibliographical Society of America, New Haven, 1955–.
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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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  Boston Record Commissioners, Reports
• City of Boston, Record Commissioners, Reports, Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols.
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  Boston Streets, &c., 1910
• City of Boston, Street Commissioners, A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places, Etc., in the City of Boston, Boston, 1910.
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  Bouvier, Law Dictionary
• John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States, 14th edn., Philadelphia, 1871; 2 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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  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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  CFA2, Three Episodes
• Charles Francis Adams, Three Episodes of Massachusetts History: The Settlement of Boston Bay; The Antinomian Controversy; A Study of Church and Town Government, Boston and New York, 1892; 2 vols.
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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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  Currier, Newburyport
• John J. Currier, History of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1764–1905, Newburyport, 1906–1909; 2 vols.
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  Curwen, Journal and Letters, 4th edn., 1864
• The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, ... from 1775 to 1783; with an Appendix of Biographical Sketches, ed. George Atkinson Ward, 4th edn., Boston, 1864.
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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. de la noblesse
• François Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois and —— Badier, Dictionnaire de la noblesse, Paris, 3d edn., 1863–1876; 19 vols.
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  Dict. of Americanisms
• Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles, Chicago, 1951.
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  Dipl. Corr., 1783–1789
• [William A. Weaver, ed.,] The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America, from ... 1783, to ... 1789, Washington, 1837 [actually 1855]; 3 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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  Doniol, Histoire
• Henri Doniol, Histoire de la participation de la France à l' établissement des Etats-Unis d’Amérique: correspondance diplomatique et documents, Paris, 1886–1892; 5 vols.
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  Eliot, Biog. Diet. of N.E.
• John Eliot, Biographical Dictionary, Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters ... in New-England, Salem and Boston, 1809.
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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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  Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention
• Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, New Haven, 1911–1937; 4 vols.
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  Forbes, Paul Revere
• Esther Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Boston, 1942.
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  Force, Archives
• [Peter Force, ed.,] American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs, Washington, 1837–1853; 9 vols.
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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 Bell
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree and Whitfield J. Bell Jr., 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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  Freeman, Washington
• Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington: A Biography, New York, 1948–1952; 6 vols. Vol. 7, by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth, New York, 1957.
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  Gage, Corr.
• The Correspondence of General Thomas Gage with the Secretaries of State, 1763–1775, ed. Clarence E. Carter, New Haven, 1931–1933; 2 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:] {p. R91} 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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  La grande encyclopédie
• La grande encyclopédie: inventairé raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Paris [1886–1902]; 31 vols.
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  HA, Gallatin
• Henry Adams, The Life of Albert Gallatin, Philadelphia, 1879.
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  HA2, Birthplaces
• Henry Adams, The Birthplaces of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams in Quincy, Massachusetts, Quincy, 1936.
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  Hamilton, Works, ed. Hamilton
• The Works of Alexander Hamilton, ed. John C. Hamilton, New York, 1850–1851; 7 vols.
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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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  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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  Hutchinson, Massachusetts Bay, ed. Mayo
• Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, ed. Lawrence Shaw Mayo, Cambridge, 1936; 3 vols.
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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, Defence
• John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, London, 1787–1788; 3 vols.
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  JA, Letters, ed. CFA
• Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1841; 2 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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  Jefferson, Writings, ed. Ford
• The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, New York and London, 1892–1899; 10 vols.
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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, Life in a New England Town
• Life in a New England Town: 1787, 1788. Diary of John Quincy Adams, While a Student in the Office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport, Boston, 1903.
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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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  JQA, Writings
• The Writings of John Quincy Adams, ed. Worthington C. Ford, New York, 1913–1917; 7 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, Arthur Lee
• Richard Henry Lee, Life of Arthur Lee, Boston, 1829; 2 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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  William Lee, Letters
• Letters of William Lee, ... 1766–1783, ed. Worthington C. Ford, Brooklyn, 1891; 3 vols.
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  Lincoln, Worcester
• William Lincoln, History of Worcester, Massachusetts, from Its Earliest Settlement to September, 1836, Worcester, 1837; 2 vols.
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  Maclay, Journal, 1890
• Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789–1791, ed. Edgar S. Maclay, New York, 1890.
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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. Provincial Congress, Jours.
• William Lincoln, ed., The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of {p. R94} Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety, Boston, 1838.
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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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  Mass., Speeches of the Governors, &c., 1765–1775
• [Alden Bradford, ed.,] Speeches of the Governors of Massachusetts, from 1765 to 1775 ..., Boston, 1818.
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  MHS, Colls., Procs.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections and Proceedings.
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  Michaud, Biog. universelle
• Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, Paris: Michaud Frères, 1811–1862; 85 vols.
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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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  MVHR
• Mississippi Valley Historical Review.
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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 Nederlandsche 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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  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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  Paullin, Atlas
• Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright, eds., Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, Washington and New York, 1932.
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  Pickering and Upham, Pickering
• Octavius Pickering and Charles W. Upham, The Life of Timothy Pickering, Boston, 1867–1873; 4 vols.
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  PMHB
• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
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  Quincy, History of Harvard Univ.
• Josiah Quincy, The History of Harvard University, 2d. edn., Boston, 1860; 2 vols.
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  Quincy, Reports
• Josiah Quincy Jr., Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, between 1761 and 1772, ed. Samuel M. Quincy, Boston, 1865.
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  Josiah Quincy, Josiah Quincy, Jr.
• Josiah Quincy, Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Junior, of Massachusetts: 1744–1775, 2d edn., ed. Eliza Susan Quincy, Boston, 1874.
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  Rowe, Letters and Diary
• Letters and Diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, 1759–1762, 1764–1779, ed. Anne Rowe Cunningham, Boston, 1903.
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  Benjamin Rush, Autobiography
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His “Travels through Life,” Together with His Commonplace Book for 1789–1813, ed. George W. Corner, Princeton, 1948.
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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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  Salisbury, Family-Memorials
• Edward E. Salisbury, Family-Memorials: A Series of Genealogical and Biographical Monographs, New Haven, 1885; 2 vols. and 1 portfolio.
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  Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia
• J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884, Philadelphia, 1884; 3 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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  Shurtleff, Description of Boston
• Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston, 3d edn., Boston, 1890.
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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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  Sprague, Annals Amer. Pulpit
• William B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations, New York, 1857–1869; 9 vols.
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  Stark, Loyalists of Mass.
• James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution, Boston, 1910.
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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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  Stiles, Literary Diary
• The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., President of Yale College, ed. Franklin Bowditch Dexter, New York, 1901; 3 vols.
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  Stillé, Dickinson
• Charles J. Stillé, The Life and Times of John Dickinson, 1732–1808, Philadelphia, 1891.
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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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  Thacher, Amer. Medical Biog.
• James Thacher, American Medical Biography: or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians Who Have Flourished in America, Boston, 1828; 2 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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  Thomas, Columbia Univ. Officers and Alumni
• Milton Halsey Thomas, comp., Columbia University Officers and Alumni, 1754–1857, New York, 1936.
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  Thorpe, Federal and State Constitutions
• Francis N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America, Washington, 1909; 7 vols.
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  Tudor, James Otis
• William Tudor, The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts, Boston, 1823.
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  VMHB
• Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
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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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  Walpole, Letters, ed. Mrs. Toynbee
• The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, ed. Mrs. Paget Toynbee, Oxford, 1903–1905; 16 vols.
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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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  Wells, Samuel Adams
• William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, Boston, 1865; 3 vols.
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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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  Wheatley, London Past and Present
• Henry B. Wheatley, London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, London, 1891; 3 vols.
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  Whitmore, Mass. Civil List
• William H. Whitmore, comp., The Massachusetts Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods, 1630–1774, Albany, 1870.
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  Wilson, Where Amer. Independence Began
• Daniel Munro Wilson, Where American Independence Began: Quincy, Its Famous Group of Patriots; Their Deeds, Homes, and Descendants, 2d edn., Boston and New York, 1904.
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  Winsor, Memorial History of Boston
• Justin Winsor, ed., The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, 1630–1880, Boston, 1880–1881; 4 vols.
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  WMQ
• William and Mary Quarterly.