1From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan: Two Versions, 24 January 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Deleted: “Sacrifices enough have been made to Moloch.”
2To John Adams from John Trumbull, 14 November 1775 (Adams Papers)
...sufficient fondness for, to be sollicitous about making its apology; and which, I assure you Sir, came very near following many of its former Brethren into the flames, as a Sacrifice to that Poetical Moloch (if such a one there be) who delights in burnt offerings of the Infants of our modern Muses; or at best was in danger of suffering perpetual imprisonment, under the Sentence of Horace...
3From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 8 June 1779 (Adams Papers)
...which has been heard heretofore very often and sometimes with Indulgence, shall be heard again. I will not always see the Honour and Interest of my Country, intrigued away and her most solid Characters immolated at the shrine of Moloch and be Silent.