Manuscripts

John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Joseph Palmer :

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Description: Adams writes from Philadelphia, "I believe no assembly ever had more extensive and complicated objects before them than our Congress. We shall be united." He discusses the two bearers of the letter, Aquilla Hall and Josias Carvill Hall of Maryland, "two young military adventurers" (probably Aquila Hall, Jr. and Josias Carvil Hall, two signers of the 1775 Bush Declaration of support for Boston and freedom).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1775 May 29.
Call number: mssHM 25026
Creator: Adams, John (1735-1826)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1994.

John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Abigail Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts :

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Letter regarding Adams' extended separation from his family in which he lists the multiple tasks involved in the founding of the new nation. Contemporary copy of a letter that was intercepted by the British.

mssHM 27214

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John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Elbridge Gerry :

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Letter to Gerry, recently appointed to a special diplomatic commission to France, in which Adams lists several objections and opinions previously expressed by others to Gerry's appointment. Adams also expresses his wish for peace with France but also his concerns with fidelity to the public and U.S. self-defense; he also discusses the character of General John Marshall. Letter is endorsed by Gerry.

mssHM 22828

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John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to John Quincy Adams :

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Regarding a case argued by John Adams in 1777 in favor of Colonel Elisha Doane and Shearjashub Bourne in maritime court in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before Judge Brackett.

mssHM 26328

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John Quincy Adams et al, Washington, D.C. to Bishop John Hughes :

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Invitation to Bishop Hughes from members of Congress to preach in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Sunday, December 12, 1847. Signed by John Quincy Adams; includes 54 signatures.

mssHM 23141

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Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams collection

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The majority of the material in the collection concerns the financial interests of Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams in Jamaica. Benjamin Adams was owed a significant sum by Jamaican landowner George Noble. Upon Noble's death (ca. 1790), Adams entered into proceedings via attorneys James Corne Pownall and David Duncomb to recover his debt. The process was severely complicated by the revelation that the cane plantation overseen by Noble, known as the Lottery Estate in Trelawney, Jamaica, was not actually owned by him. After Benjamin Adams' death in 1792, the affair was taken up by the executor of his will, his brother Thomas Adams. The collection consists of autograph letters and copies, statements of bills and accounts, estate dealings and promissory notes; included is correspondence with, among others, William Cruden, William Morton Pitt and David Ross.

mssHM 83630-83688

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John Adams, Auteuil, France, letter to Elbridge Gerry :

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Letter regarding the state of current negotiations in Paris; money furnished to the U.S. by France and Holland; the foreign and domestic debt of the U.S. and the country's credit abroad; relations with England and Spain; and the need for ministers and ambassadors in Europe, which Adams considers a necessary expense.

mssHM 22793

John Adams, Philadelphia, letter to Joseph Palmer :

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