1From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Mecom, 24 December 1767 (Franklin Papers)
...have their Course, and Time proves our best Comforter. This I have experienc’d myself. And...
2Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1775 (Adams Papers)
.... The consolations of Religion are the only sure comforters in the day of affliction. They are...
3John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
...the Consolations of Religion are the only sure Comforters.” It is the Constitution under which...
4To George Washington from Colonel Alexander Spotswood, 9 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
...small infants; she poor woman will want a Comforter, & the poor Children a father, Both...
5To George Washington from Joseph Reed, 29 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
...be our Shield in the Day of Battle, our Comforter in the Hour of Death, and our kind...
6Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782 (Adams Papers)
.... Hope is my best Friend and kindest comforter; she assures me that the pure unabated...
7John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
...forget it sometimes. Mr. Jay has been my Comforter. We have compared Notes, and they agree....
8[October 1783] (Adams Papers)
...to me a nurse, a physician and a comforter at Amsterdam, was now separated from me forever...
9Paris Septr. 14[–6 October] 1783. (Adams Papers)
...to me a nurse, a physician and a comforter at Amsterdam, was now separated from me forever...
10Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 20 October 1783 (Adams Papers)
His comforters, he comforts; great in ruin