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No. Author Recipient Title Date Context
24751 Editorial Note Congress reconvened for its second session on 4 January. Deadlocked over two entwined issues—the...
24752 Editorial Note The dispute between John Adams and the Comte de Vergennes over Congress’ revaluation of its...
24753 Editorial Note Returning home to Braintree in December 1775, exhausted by his labors in the congress, John Adams...
24754 Boston, Committee of Correspondence From John Adams to the Boston Committee of … ≈1774-09-01 As I am of the Opinion, that the Subjects of the Massachusetts Bay are without a King, Governor,...
24755 John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress In his final months of service in the congress, JA served on 26 committees, acting as chairman...
24756 Editorial Note This suit, as Adams noted in his diary, “arose from Ambition” and (apparently) from competition...
24757 Editorial Note In common with most lawyers John Adams maintained a collection of pleading forms to help in...
24758 Editorial Note This was a proceeding at the Middlesex General Sessions for September 1768, in which Lydia Gage...
24759 Editorial Note This case and Nos. 18–19 and 20–21 reflect some of the legal problems arising from the dependence...
24760 Editorial Note On 28 August 1780, John Adams dined with “A Lawyer, Mr. Calcoon” ( JA, Diary and Autobiography...
24761 Editorial Note In this forfeiture proceeding, as in Folger v. The Cornelia , No. 45 , Adams argued in favor of...
24762 Adams, John John Adams’ Instructions as Minister to Great Britain … 1785-03-07 Instructions for the Minister Plenipotentiary appointed to represent the United States of America...
24763 Editorial Note The Province Charter of 1691 provided that there should be “a liberty of Conscience allowed in...
24764 Volumes 2 and 3 of John Adams’ A Defence of the … [ ca. 25 August 1787 – ca. 23 January 1788 ] Wrapping up a decade of diplomatic service, John...
24765 Editorial Note The draft Prussian-American commercial treaty that the Baron von Thulemeier submitted to John...
24766 Editorial Note The riot of 5 March 1770, to which Samuel Adams and history have affixed the inaccurate title of...
24767 Editorial Note In the first week of June 1770, Adams accepted a seat in the Massachusetts House, a step which at...
24768 Editorial Note On 22 July, John Adams sent Edmund Jenings the final portion of his reply to Joseph Galloway’s...
24769 Editorial Note In the winter of 1766–67, Jonathan Sewall, writing as Philanthrop, took it upon himself to defend...
24770 John Adams’ Service in the Continental Congress JA increasingly felt the weight of committee work during the six weeks that remained before he...
24771 Editorial Note In the spring of 1770 the schooner Hitty , John Burnam, master, sailed from her home port of...
24772 Editorial Note: The American Peace Commissioners to … The drafting and dispatch of the commissioners’ 18 July letter to Robert R. Livingston has a...
24773 Editorial Note In 1763, John Adams made his first verifiable entry into print with the publication of his...
24774 [June 1753] ≈1753-06-08 At Colledge. A Clowdy, Dull morning, and so continued till about 5 a Clock, when it began to rain...
24775 Editorial Note Ann Josselyne of Marlborough claimed that John Harrington of the same town was the father of her...
24776 Editorial Note Adams returned to Braintree from Philadelphia on 21 December 1775 and departed from Watertown for...
24777 Editorial Note The litigation arising from Samuel Clap’s will is illustrative of two very important features of...
24778 Editorial Note In June 1765 at Boston, James Warden endorsed two bills of exchange drawn on a New York...
24779 Editorial Note On 14 October 1772 George Dawson, an officer of the royal navy, who since at least 1768 had been...
24780 Editorial Note John Adams had long contemplated the manner in which the history of the American Revolution, and...
24781 Editorial Note In these cases the defendants stood accused of violating province laws forbidding interference...
24782 Editorial Note In February 1761 John Adams was present at an event which his later descriptions have firmly...
24783 Editorial Note In 1784 and 1785 the absence of any treaties between the United States and the Barbary States...
24784 Editorial Note The eight letters exchanged by John Adams and the Comte de Vergennes between 13 and 29 July...
24785 Adams, John Address from the Inhabitants of Marblehead, 16 March … 1789-03-16 the Inhabitants of Marblehead in Common with their fellow Countrymen have ever felt Strongly...
24786 Editorial Note Until comparatively recent times the valor of naval crews was stimulated by the prospect of a...
24787 Editorial Note “I was concerned in several Causes in which Negroes sued for their Freedom before the...
24788 Editorial Note The Commissioners’ letter or memorial to Vergennes of early January 1779 is highly significant....
24789 Adams, John Address from Rhode Island Federalists, 2 April 1789 1789-04-02 The Federalists of this State though denied the Priviledge of giving you their Suffrages, are...
24790 Editorial Note In the bitter verbal battling which rumbled beneath the physical violence of the...
24791 Editorial Note The two documents which follow are virtually all that have survived pertinent to Adams’ early law...