Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0149
[dateline] Plymouth June 16 1775
[salute] Dear Mrs. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0150
[dateline] Sunday June 18 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
[dateline] Tuesday afternoon [20 June]
How sleep the Brave who sink to rest,
By all their Countrys wishes blest?
When Spring with dew'ey fingers cold
Returns to deck their Hallowed mould
She their shall dress a sweeter Sod
Than fancys feet has ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung
By forms unseen their Dirge is sung
Their [There] Honour comes a pilgrim grey
To Bless the turf that wraps their Clay
And freedom shall a while repair
To Dwell a weeping Hermit there.3
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0151
[dateline] Phyladelphia June 18. 1775
[salute] My Dear
[salute] I am &c.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0152
[dateline] June 22 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0153
[dateline] Philadelphia June 23. 1775
[salute] My Dear
[dateline] June 27
[salute] My Love every where.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0154
[dateline] Salem. June 24. 1775
[salute] Mr. Adams
[salute] I am with,5 wishing your Counsels may be conducted by An Overruleing Providence, for the purpose of a lasting Tranquility, Your hume. servant,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0155
[dateline] June 25 1775 Braintree
[salute] Dearest Friend
“Extremity is the trier of Spirits—
Common chances common men will bear;
And when the Sea is calm all boats alike
Shew mastership in floating, but fortunes blows
When most struck home, being bravely warded, crave
A noble cunning.” Shakespear.
“And in his Duty prompt at every call
Can watch, and weep, and pray, and feel for all.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0156
[dateline] Braintree June 28th. 1775
[salute] Dear Sir
[salute] From, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0157
[dateline] Weymouth July. 3. 1775
[salute] Dear Sr.
[salute] Yr. Friend & Humb. Servt.,
[dateline] June [i.e. July] 4th.
[salute] Dear Sr.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0158
[dateline] Phyladelphia July 4. 1775
[salute] My dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0159
[dateline] Braintre July 5 1775
[salute] Good Night with thoughts of the[e] do I close my Eyes; Angels gaurd and protect the[e], and may a safe return ere long bless thy
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0160
[dateline] Philadelphia July1 7. 1775
[salute] My Dear
[salute] I am forever yours—
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0161
[dateline] Braintree July 12. 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0162
[dateline] Braintree July 16 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
“Mark his Majestick fabrick! he's a temple
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine
His Souls the Deity that lodges there.
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God.”
“This Day be Bread and peace my lot
All Else beneath the Sun
Thou knowst if best bestowed or not
And let thy will be done.”
But is the Almighty ever bound to please
Ruild by my wish or studious of my ease.
Shall I determine where his frowns shall fall
And fence my Grotto from the Lot of all?
Prostrate his Sovereign Wisdom I adore
Intreat his Mercy, but I dare no more.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0163
[dateline] Philadelphia July 17. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0164
[dateline] July 23 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0165
[dateline] Philadelphia July 23d: 1775
[salute] My Dear
[salute] My Love to all the Children.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0166
[dateline] Braintree 24 [July]1 1775
[salute] My Dear Mrs. Warren
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0167
[dateline] PhiladelphiaJuly 24th, 1775.1
[salute] My Dear,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0168
[dateline] Braintree July 24th 1775
[salute] Dear Bror:
[salute] I fear you will be tir'd with the length of this Scrawl unless reliev'd by believing it to be design'd for your amusement, by your most affectionate Bror.,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0169
[dateline] Braintree, July 25 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade;
A Breath can make them, as a Breath has made
But a bold peasantry, their Country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0170
[dateline] Weymouth July 25. 1775
[salute] Dear Sr.
[dateline] Tuesday Evening4
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0171
[dateline] Salem July 26 1775
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0172
[dateline] Philadelphia July 28. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0173
[dateline] Philadelphia July 30th. 1775
[salute] My dear
[salute] Love to the Children.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0174
[dateline] Braintree july 31—1775
“Nor writ his Name whose tomb should pierce the Skies.”
“Glows my resentment into Guilt? What Guilt
Can equal voilations of the Dead?
The Dead how sacred! Sacred is the Dust
Of this Heaven-labourd form erect, divine!
This Heav'n assum'd Majestick robe of earth.”
[dateline] August 2
[salute] Adieu my Dearest Friend and allways believe me unalterably yours,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0175
[dateline] Braintree August 10 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
[dateline] August 11
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0176
[dateline] Westfield August 18th. 1775
[salute] My Dear Friend
“To certain Trouble we are born
Hope to rejoice but sure to mourn.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0177
[dateline] Watertown. Saterday 12 o Clock [26 August 1775]1
[salute] With unfeigned Regards to both Mr. and Mrs. Adams subscribes their affectionate Friend,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0178
[dateline] Braintree August 27 1775
[salute] My Dear Mrs. Warren
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0179
[dateline] Braintree Sepbr. 8 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
[dateline] Sunday Sepbr. 10.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0180
[dateline] Braintree Sepbr. 16 [i.e. 17] Sunday 1775
“To Bear and Suffer is our portion here.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0181
[dateline] Philadelphia Septr. 17. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0182
[dateline] Plimouth 21 of Sept. [1775]
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0183
[dateline] Westfield Sepr. 22d. 1775
[salute] My Dear Friend
[salute] I am Affectionately Your Friend,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0184
[dateline] Watertown 23d. Septr. 1775
[salute] Mrs. Adams
[salute] I am Madm. Your Most respectful and Obedient Sert.,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0185
[dateline] Braintree Sepbr. 25 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0186
[dateline] Philadelphia Septr. 26. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0187
[dateline] Watertown Sepr. 27th: 1775
[salute] Dear Madam
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0188
[dateline] Braintree Sepbr. 29 1775
[salute] Dearest Friend
“A Bitter change, severer for severe.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0189
[dateline] Weymouth october. 1 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0190
[dateline] Philadelphia Octr. 1. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0191
[dateline] Philadelphia Octr. 2. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0192
[dateline] Hingham Octr. 4th. 1775
[salute] Dear Sir
[salute] I am, dear Sir, your very humble Servt:,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0193
[dateline] Weymouth Octer. 6th 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0194
[dateline] Philadelphia Octr. 7th. 1775
[salute] My dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0195
[dateline] Braintree october 9 1775
“Rare are solitary woes, they Love a Train
And tread each others heal.”
“The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when they sleep in Dust.”
“Give Sorrow words.
The Grief that cannot speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it Break.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0196
[dateline] Octr. 10. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0197
[dateline] Octr. 13. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0198
[dateline] Braintree October 19 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0199
[dateline] Octr: 19. 1775
[salute] My Dear
[salute] Yours—yours—yours—
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0200
[dateline] October 20th, 1775
[salute] My dear Daughter
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0201
[dateline] Octr. 20. 1775
[salute] My dear son
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0202
[dateline] Braintree October 21 1775
There's not a day, but, to the Man of thought,
Betrays some secret, that throws new reproach
on life, and makes him sick of seeing more.
“A foe to God was ne'er true Friend to man
Some sinister intent taints all he does.”
“Each Friend snatchd from us is a plume
pluck'd from the wing of Humane vanity.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0203
[dateline] October 21. 1775
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0204
[dateline] Braintree october 22 1775
“Yet the Grief that cannot speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it burst.”
[salute] I hope to hear often from you which is all the alleviation I have of your absence, and is next to seeing you the greatest comfort of your
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0205
[dateline] Octr. 23. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0206
[dateline] October 25 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0207
[dateline] Octr. 28. 1775
[salute] My dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0208
[dateline] Octr. 29.1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0209
[dateline] [Philadelphia], 29 October, 17751
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0210
[dateline] Octr. 29. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0211
[dateline] Novr. 4. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0212
[dateline] November 5 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0213
[dateline] Braintree [ca. 5 ]November1 1775
[salute] Dear Marcia
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0214
[dateline] Braintree Novbr. 12 1775
[salute] I must bid you adieu tis late at Night. Most affectionately Yours.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0215
[dateline] Novr. 12. 1775
[salute] My dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0216
[dateline] Novr. 15th. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0217
[dateline] November 18. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0218
[dateline] November 27 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0219
[dateline] Decr. 3. 1775
[salute] My best Friend
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0220
[dateline] Enfield near London Decr. 5 1775
[salute] Dear Sir1
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0221
[dateline] Braintree December 10. 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0222
[dateline] Plimouth Dec. 11 1775
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0223
[dateline] Salem January the 2d. 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0224
[dateline] Salem, January 19, 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0225
[dateline] Watertown Jan. 24. 1776
[salute] My dear Nabby
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0226
[dateline] February 7 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0227
[dateline] Philadelphia Feby. 11. 1776
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0228
[dateline] Feby. [13]1 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0229
[dateline] February 18. 1776
[salute] My dearest Friend
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0230
[dateline] Febry 21 1776
“To all my foes dear fortune sent thy Gifts
But never to my Friends.
I tamely can endure the first
But this with envy makes me Burst.”
[salute] All our Friends send Love. Write me by every opportunity and believe me at all times Yours.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0231
[dateline] Saturday Evening March 2 [1776]
[dateline] Sunday Eve March 3
[dateline] Monday Evening
[dateline] Twesday morning
[dateline] Thursday Fast Day
“There is a tide in the affairs of Men
Which taken, at the flood leads on to fortune;
omitted, all the voyage of their life
is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
{ 355 }And we must take the current when it serves,
or lose our ventures.”
Shakespear
[dateline] Sunday Eve March 10
Blood and destruction are so much in use
And Dreadfull objects so familiar,
Man wants but Little here below
Nor wants that Little long.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0232
[dateline] Philadelphia March 8. 1776
[salute] My Dear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0233
[dateline] B[raintr]ee March 16 1776
[dateline] Sunday Noon2
[dateline] Monday morning
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0234
[dateline] March 17. 1776
[salute] My dearest Friend
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0235
[dateline] March 19. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0236
[dateline] Salem. March 22d. 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
[salute] I am with regard Sr. Yr. hum Servt.,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0237
[dateline] Salem March the 27th. 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0238
[dateline] March 29. 1776
[salute] Remember me as you ought.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0239
[dateline] Philadelphia March 29. 1776
[salute] My dear sir
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0240
[dateline] Philadelphia March 30th. 1776
[salute] Dear sir
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0241
[dateline] Braintree March 31 1776
[dateline] April 5
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0242
[dateline] Braintree April 4th. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0243
[dateline] Salem Aprill the 6 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
[dateline] the <7> 8th att Boston
[salute] I am Yrs.,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0244
[dateline] April 7 1776
[dateline] April 10
“Woe to the Hands that shed this costly blood;
A curse shall light upon their line;
Domestick fury, and firce civil Strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Britton.”5
[dateline] April 11
“Though certain pains attend the cares of State
A Good Man owes his Country to be Great
Should act abroad the high distinguish'd part
And shew at least the purpose of his Heart.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0245
[dateline] April 12. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0246
[dateline] Braintree April 13. 1776
[salute] Dear Marcia
O pardon me, thou bleeding peice of Earth!
That I am meek and gentle with these Butchers
Thou art the Ruins of as brave a Man
As ever live'd in the tide of times;
Woe to [the] hand that shed this costly Blood
Over thy Wounds now do I prophesy,
(Which like dumb mouths, do ope their Ruby lips
To beg the voice and utterance of a Tongue)
A curse shall light upon that line of Men
Domestick fury and firce civil Strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Brittain.
Shakspear
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0247
[dateline] April 14 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0248
[dateline] Ap. 14. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0249
[dateline] April 15. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0250
[dateline] Watertown April 17 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0251
[dateline] April 18 1776
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[dateline] April 18th, 1776
[salute] My dear Daughter
[salute] I am your affectionate father,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0253
[dateline] Philadelphia April 18. 1776
[salute] My dear Son
[salute] I am your affectionate Father,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0254
[dateline] April 21 1776
O Thou, whose wisdom, solid yet refin'd
Whose patriot-virtues, and consumate skill
So struck the finer springs that move the world
joind to what'er the Graces can bestow,
And all Apollo's animating fire
Give the[e] with pleasing dignity to shine
At once the Guardian, ornament and joy
Of polish'd life, permit the Rural Muse
O Chesterfield, to grace thee with her Song!
e'er to the shades again she Humbly flies
Indulge her fond ambition in thy Train,
(For every Muse has in thy train a place)
To Mark thy various full accomplish'd mind
To mark that Spirit which, with British scorn
Rejects th Allurements of corrupted power;
That elegant politeness which excels,
Even in the judgment of presumptuous France
The boasted manners of her shining court
That wit, the vivid energy of Sense
The truth of Nature, which with Attic point
{ 390 }And kind well-temperd Satire, smoothly keen
Steals through the Soul and without pain corrects.
Oh are ye not those patriots, in whose power
That best, that Godlike Luxery is plac'd
Of blessing thousands, thousands yet unborn
Thro' late posterity? Ye large of Soul
chear up dejected industery, and give
A double Harvest to the pining Swain
Teach thou the Labouring hand the Sweets of Toil
How by the finest Art, the Native robe
To weave; how white as hyperborean Snow
To form the lucid lawn; with venturous oar
How to dash wide the billow; nor look on
Shamefully passive, while Brittania's Fleets
Defraud us of the glittering finny Swarms
That heave our friths, and swarm upon our Shores
How all-enlivening trade to rouse, and wing
The prosperous Sail, from every growing port
uninjurd, round the sea incircled Globe.
[salute] Adieu. Shall I say remember me as you ought.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0255
[dateline] April 23d. 1776
The Thirteen united Colonies.
The free and independent States of America.
The Congress for the Time being.
The American Army and Navy.
The Governor and Council of South Carolina,2 &c. &c. &c.
An happy Election for the Whiggs on the first of May &c.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0256
[dateline] Weymouth April 26. 1776
[salute] Dear Sr.
[salute] Our Families and Yours are well. I am with Affection Yrs.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0257
[dateline] Braintree April 27 1776
And charm by accepting, by submitting sway.
“Though certain pains attend the cares of State
A Good Man owes his Country to be great
Should act abroad the high distinguishd part
or shew at least the purpose of his heart.”
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0258
[dateline] April 28. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0259
[dateline] B[raintre]e May 7 1776
“Charm by accepting, by submitting sway
Yet have our Humour most when we obey.”
“engaged in a corrupted State
Wrestling with vice and faction.”
[dateline] May 9
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0260
[dateline] [Braintree, ca. 8 May 1776]
[salute] Dear Marcia
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0261
[dateline] May 9 1776
[salute] Let me hear from you often. Yours unfeignedly.
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0262
[dateline] May 12. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0263
[dateline] May 14 1776
[salute] Adieu—Yours,
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0264
[dateline] Salem May 14th. 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0265
[dateline] May 15. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0266
[dateline] May 17.1 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0267
[dateline] May 22d. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0268
[dateline] Salem May 22d. 1776
[salute] Mr. Adams
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0269
[dateline] [Braintree, 27 May 1776?]
[dateline] May 27
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0270
[dateline] May 27. 1776
Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0271
[dateline] Plimouth 27 May [1776]
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[dateline] [Braintree, January? 1776]1
[salute] My Dear Marcia
“will often sigh to find the unwilling Gratitude
of base Mankind.”