24751Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the spring of 1774, when Adams was kept busy helping to draft the impeachment articles against...
24752Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Adams approached his participation in the Continental Congress with trepidation. As he...
24753Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 26 October 1774 the Continental Congress adjourned, and its members returned home. John Adams...
24754Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Continental Association and the Bill of Rights of the First Continental Congress turned...
24755Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
While John Adams was writing his Novanglus letters, the town of Braintree met, on 6 March 1775,...
24756John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress (Adams Papers)
The first session of the Second Continental Congress began on 10 May 1775 and ended officially on...
24757Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
After the official adjournment of the Second Continental Congress on 1 August, another meeting...
24758Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In the fall of 1775 Adams worked in the congress to the point of exhaustion; by December he asked...
24759Editorial Note
(Adams Papers)
Adams returned to Braintree from Philadelphia on 21 December 1775 and departed from Watertown for...
24760Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Returning home to Braintree in December 1775, exhausted by his labors in the congress, John Adams...
24761Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
One of the most influential of Adams’ Revolutionary writings was the pamphlet Thoughts on...
24762Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 12 June 1776, almost five months after a committee had been named to consider the...
24763Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Plan of Treaties of 1776 had its origin in a resolution of the Continental Congress on 11...
24764Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
No member of the congress played a greater role in 1775 and 1776 in bringing about a separation...
24765Enclosure: Draft of an Article (Adams Papers)
At this Time of general Danger, when every one is anxiously considering by what Means our...
24766John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress (Adams Papers)
JA increasingly felt the weight of committee work during the six weeks that remained before he...
24767John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress (Adams Papers)
In his final months of service in the congress, JA served on 26 committees, acting as chairman...
24768Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Commissioners’ letter or memorial to Vergennes of early January 1779 is highly significant....
24769Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Of the eleven states that adopted constitutions during the Revolutionary period, Massachusetts,...
24770Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Adams’ letter of 19 April 1780 to the president of Congress (No. I, below), constitutes his...
24771Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The dispute between John Adams and the Comte de Vergennes over Congress’ revaluation of its...
24772Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The eight letters exchanged by John Adams and the Comte de Vergennes between 13 and 29 July...
24773Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 22 July, John Adams sent Edmund Jenings the final portion of his reply to Joseph Galloway’s...
24774Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 28 August 1780, John Adams dined with “A Lawyer, Mr. Calcoon” ( JA, Diary and Autobiography...
24775Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Congress adopted three documents 15 June that represented a major victory for French diplomacy...
24776Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Disturbed by errors in the Abbé Raynal’s Révolution de l’Amérique , London, 1781, and encouraged...
24777Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 14 May 1782, two days after John Adams moved into the new American legation, John Thaxter...
24778Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 19 April the States General recognized the United States as independent and John Adams as its...
24779Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Two separate documents are presented here. The first is derived from the printed Dutch...
24780III. John Adams’ Replies to the Dutch Remarks on and Suggested Changes to His Draft Treaty of Amity and Commerce: [ante … (Adams Papers)
John Adams wrote two point-by-point responses to the Dutch proposals for changes to his draft...
24781Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
John Adams had long contemplated the manner in which the history of the American Revolution, and...
24782Editorial Note: The American Peace Commissioners to Robert R. Livingston (Adams Papers)
The drafting and dispatch of the commissioners’ 18 July letter to Robert R. Livingston has a...
24783Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 9 April 1784 John Adams drafted two letters to Samuel Osgood. They were replies to Osgood’s of...
24784Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The draft Prussian-American commercial treaty that the Baron von Thulemeier submitted to John...
24785Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded on 10 September 1785. But...
24786Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Adams Papers)
The Hague, 10 September 1785. MS ( PCC , No. 135, I, f. 286–320). PRINTED : Miller, Treaties...
24787Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In 1784 and 1785 the absence of any treaties between the United States and the Barbary States...
24788Volume 1 of John Adams’ A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In early September 1786, John Adams returned to No. 8 Grosvenor Square from a whirlwind summer...
24789Volumes 2 and 3 of John Adams’ A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (Adams Papers)
[ ca. 25 August 1787 – ca. 23 January 1788 ] Wrapping up a decade of diplomatic service, John...
24790Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Congress reconvened for its second session on 4 January. Deadlocked over two entwined issues—the...
24791Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Following the favorable reception of his 1787–1788 work, A Defence of the Constitutions of...