15011784 [i.e. 1804]. Aug. (Adams Papers)
The last Week in August We ploughed a ditch and brought the Earth into the Yard and 32 loads of...
1502John Adams. (Adams Papers)
Begun Oct. 5. 1802. As the Lives of Phylosophers, Statesmen or Historians written by them selves...
1503[Parents and Boyhood] (Adams Papers)
My Father married Susanna Boylston in October 1734, and on the 19th of October 1735 I was born....
1504[Harvard College, 1751–1755] (Adams Papers)
Continued November 30. 1804. In my own class at Collidge, there were several others, for whom I...
1505[Harvard and Worcester, 1751-1755] (Adams Papers)
The two last years of my Residence at Colledge, produced a Clubb of Students, I never knew the...
1506[1757] (Adams Papers)
At the time when Fort William Henry was besieged, there came down almost every day dispatches...
1507[1758] (Adams Papers)
In 1758 my Period with Mr. Putnam expired. Doolittle and Baldwin visited me in the office, and...
1508[Braintree Lawyer, 1759–1761] (Adams Papers)
The next Year after I was sworn, was the memorable Year 1759 when the Conquest of Canada was...
1509[Braintree Lawyer, 1761] (Adams Papers)
On the 25 of May in this Year 1761, my venerable Father died in his 71st Year, beloved, esteemed...
1510[Jonathan Sewall, 1759] (Adams Papers)
Sometime in 1761 or two Mr. Samuel Quincy with whom I sometimes corresponded, shewed to Mr....
1511[Town Officer, 1761–1765] (Adams Papers)
Now become a Freeholder I attended the Town Meetings, as a Member, as I had usually attended them...
1512[Marriage and Law Practice, 1764-1765] (Adams Papers)
In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and...
1513[The Stamp Act, 1765] (Adams Papers)
This Year 1765 was the Epocha of the Stamp Act.... I drew up a Petition to the Select Men of...
1514[1765–1767] (Adams Papers)
On the 14 day of July of this Year 1765, Mrs. Adams presented me with a Daughter and in her...
1515[First Residence in Boston, 1768] (Adams Papers)
In the Beginning of the Year 1768 My Friends in Boston, were very urgent with me to remove into...
1516[1768–1770] (Adams Papers)
This Year 1768 I attended the Superiour Court at Worcester, and the next Week proceeded on to...
1517[1770] (Adams Papers)
The Year 1770 was memorable enough, in these little Annals of my Pilgrimage. The Evening of the...
1518[Braintree and Boston, 1771–1773] (Adams Papers)
The complicated Cares of my legal and political Engagements, the slender Diet to which I was...
1519[Independence of the Judges, 1773–1774] (Adams Papers)
In the Year 1773 arose a Controversy concerning the Independence of the Judges. The King had...
1520[Report on Boundaries, 1773–1774] (Adams Papers)
In the Fall of the Year 1773, The General Court appointed Mr. Bowdoin and me to draw a State of...
1521[Controversy with Hutchinson, 1773] (Adams Papers)
As I have written hitherto, wholly from my memory, without recurring to any Books or Papers, I am...
1522[Seizure of Hancock’s Sloop, 1768–1769] (Adams Papers)
In the fall of the Year 1773, a great Uproar was raised in Boston, on Account of the Unlading in...
1523[In Congress, September–October 1774] (Adams Papers)
It is well known that in June 1774 The General Court at Cambridge appointed Members to meet with...
1524[Novanglus Papers, 1774–1775] (Adams Papers)
Upon our Return to Massachusetts, I found myself elected by the Town of Braintree into the...
1525[In Congress, May 1775] (Adams Papers)
Congress assembled and proceeded to Business, and the Members appeared to me to be of one Mind,...
1526[In Congress, June and July 1775] (Adams Papers)
This Measure of Imbecility, the second Petition to the King embarrassed every Exertion of...
1527[August 1775] (Adams Papers)
I have always imputed the Loss of Charleston, and of the brave Officers and Men who fell there,...
1528[In Congress, Fall 1775–Spring 1776] (Adams Papers)
At the appointed time, We returned to Philadelphia and Congress were reassembled. Mr. Richard...
1529[In Congress, Spring 1776, and Thomas Paine] (Adams Papers)
In the Course of this Winter appeared a Phenomenon in Philadelphia a Star of Disaster (Disastrous...
1530[In Congress, May–July 1776] (Adams Papers)
I was incessantly employed, through the whole Fall, Winter and Spring of 1775 and 1776 in...