PTJ The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Julian P. Boyd, John Catanzariti, Charles Cullen, eds.
Works The Works of John Adams, Charles Francis Adams, ed.
I. THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA
1. a New England winter: Meteorological Journal of Professor John Winthrop, January 1776, HUG 1879.207.5 mfp, Harvard University Archives.
2. five feet seven: Works, IX, 612
3. Archbishop of Canterbury: JA to Benjamin Waterhouse, AP, #436, MHS March 19, 1817,
4. “the animal spirits”: DJA, I, 27
5. “old acquaintances”: Ibid., II, 9.
6. “an habitual contempt”: AFC, I, 317
7. “like a faint meteor”:
8. the “labyrinth” of human nature: DJA, I 61
9. “You will never be alone”: AFC, IV, 114
10. “my farm, my family”: Ibid., II, 100
11. “I have a zeal”: Ibid., I, 135.
12. “possessed of another species”: Corner, ed., Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, 140.
13. “He saw the whole of a subject”: Ibid., 140–42.
14. “Winter makes its approaches”: AFC, I, 324
15. “like a nun”: Ibid., 325.
16. “arduous task”: Ibid., 222.
17. “You cannot be”: Ibid., 172.
18. “The cry for pins”: Ibid., 219
19. “The alarm flew”: Ibid., 204
20. “Sometimes refugees”: Ibid., 205.
21. “Pray don’t let Bass”: Ibid., 240.
22. “How many have fallen Ibid., 222
23. I wander alone”: DJA, II, 97.
24. I think it will be necessary: AFC, I, 129.
25. “It is to be a school”: PJA, II, 99–100.
26. grandest, most important assembly: DJA, II, 98.
27. “as if to see a coronation”: Ibid., 100.
28. “They talk very loud”: Ibid., 109
29. “theater of action”: AFC, I, 144.
30. “Such is the distress”: Ibid., 277
31. “Mrs. Randall has lost”: Ibid., 278.
32. “Woe follows woe”: Ibid., 284.
33. “You often expressed”: Ibid., 289.
34. “the most shocking”: Ibid., 296.
35. “’Tis only in my night visions”: Ibid., 305.
36. “befall a city”: Ibid., 313.
37. “entirely continental”: Twohig, ed., PGW, Revolutionary War Series, III, I.
38. “It is not in the pages”: Ibid., 19.
39. “The reflection on”: Ibid., 89.
40. “I am exceedingly desirous”: Ibid., 93.
41. “Your commission constitutes”: Ibid., 37.
42. “the gentleman from Virginia”: DJA, III, 323.
43. “one of the most”: AFC, I, 216.
44. enough in praise: Ibid., 246.
45. “Oh that I was a soldier!”: Ibid., 207.
46. Henry Adams of Barton St. David: DJA, III, 254, n. 4.
47. second Joseph: Ibid., 255, n. 6.
48. first Henry Adams: Ibid., 254, n. 4.
49. “What has preserved”: JA to Benjamin Rush, July 19, 1812, AP, MHS.
50. “of making and sailing boats”: DJA, III, 257.
51. “Let frugality”: AFC, I, 114.
52. “the honestest man”: DJA, III, 256.
53. Joseph Adams: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, V, 502.
54. Taught to read at home: DJA, III, 257.
55. “churl”: Works, IX, 613.
56. He cared not for books: DJA, III, 257.
57. to be a farmer: Ibid., 257.
58. which meant Harvard: Ibid., 259; EDJA, 43.
59. admitted to Harvard: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XIII, 513
60. class 1755 of: Ibid., XIII, 512.
61. “Total and complete misery”: Ibid., XIII, 514.
62. “I read forever”: DJA, III, 262.
63. “lowermost northwest chamber”: EDJA, 43, n. 2.
64. Thomas Sparhawk: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XIII, 647.
65. Joseph Stockbridge: Ibid., XIII, 647.
66. evening prayers: Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 27–28.
67. wiped clean on the table cloth: Timothy Pickering Papers, Reel #53. MHS.
68. “I shall never forget”: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates,III, 514
69. “All scholars”: Pierce, History of Harvard,169.
70. Adams was fined: March 15, 1775 Harvard Archives.
71. “amorous disposition”: DJA, III, 260.
72. I shall draw no characters: DJA, III, 260, 261.
73. Adams was listed fourteenth: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates,XIII, 512
74. “Is civil government”: Ibid., 515
75. unsuited for the life: DJA, III, 263
76. “I saw such a spirit”: Ibid., 262.
77. “But we must be cautious”: Ibid., I, 9
78. One student remembered: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XIII, 514.
79. I sometimes: DJA, I, 13.
80. Upon common theaters: PJA, I, 12
81. becoming a doctor: DJA, III, 264.
82. “reveries”: PJA, I, 5
83. “All that part of Creation”: Ibid., 4–6
84. “soft vernal showers”: DJA, I, 27
85. “Oh! that I could”: Ibid., 7.
86. “I have no books”: Ibid., 22
87. “I can as easily”: Ibid., 21.
88. Actual thunderstorms: Ibid., 136.
89. “Honesty, sincerity”: Ibid., 12.
90. “Vanity, I am sensible”: JA to Christopher Gadsen, April 16, 1801. AP, MHS.
91. “A puffy, vain”: DJA, I, 37.
92. “glorious shows”: Ibid., 43.
93. “the amazing concave”: PJA, I, 15.
94. But all the provisions: DJA, I, 43.
95. “It will be hard work”: PJA, I, 17.
96. “Can you imagine”: JA to Richard Rush, February 16, 1814, #95. MHS.
97. King’s troops: DJA, III, 266.
98. “I am not without”: DJA, III, 266.
99. “I am beginning”: EDJA, 65.
100. “I have read Gilbert’s”: DJA, I, 45.
101. “Rose about sun rise”: Ibid., 46.
102. I had the pleasure: EDJA, 99.
103. “pursue the study of the law”: DJA, I, 55.
104. Lambert v. Field: See editorial note in EDJA beginning on p. 82.
105. He blamed his mother: DJA, I, 64.
106. terrible family row: Ibid., 65.
107. soul to the law: Ibid., 72.
108. “Reputation”: Ibid., 78
109. My eyes are so diverted: Ibid., 80–81.
110. “I never shall shine”: Ibid., 133.
111. “Why have I not genius”: Ibid., 95.
112. “Ballast is what I want”: EDJA, 73.
113. “a heart formed”: Ellis, Passionate Sage, 182.
114. not by John Adams: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XIII, 627.
115. “distinguishing glorys”: PJA, I, 5.
116. “gallanting”: DJA, I, 57.
117. “in future ages”: PJA, I, 40.
118. “Let me search”: DJA, I, 61.
119. “grandeur”: Ibid., 83.
120. “imitating Otis”: Ibid., 84.
121. “squaddy, masculine creature”: Ibid., 75.
122. Zab Hayward: Ibid., 172.
123. P[arson] W[ibird]: Ibid., 92–93.
124. If I look: EDJA, 70.
125. “there laughed and screamed”: DJA, I, 77.
126. “Let no trifling diversion”: Ibid., 72.
127. “Let love and vanity”: Ibid., 87.
128. “fond, nor frank”: Ibid., 109.
129. “crafty, designing man”: Ibid., 108.
130. The testator: PJA, I, 35.
131. forty acres: DJA, III, 277.
132. Now to what: Ibid., I, 124.
133. “I grow more expert
”: Ibid., 193.
134. The story of B. Biknal’s wife: Ibid., 231–32.
135. Di was a constant: Ibid., 234.
136. “Candor is my characteristic”: AFC, I, 49.
137. “a gentleman has no business”: Ibid., 47.
138. “smoked”: Ibid., 29.
139. Also, two black slaves: Withey, Dearest Friend, 6; Akers, Abigail Adams, 3.
140. Oh, my dear girl: AFC, I, 49.
141. “I never shall shine”: DJA, I, 133.
142. news of the Stamp Act: Boston Gazette, May 27, 1765.
143. immediate uproar: Ibid., June 24, 1765.
144. “utmost consternation”: Ibid., July 22, 1765.
145. “like devils let loose”: Ibid., Sept. 2, 1765.
146. A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law: See the Boston Gazette, Aug. 12, 1765; Aug. 19, 1765; Sept. 30, 1765; Oct. 2, 1765.
147. “the most thorough understanding”: DJA, I, 271.
148. “liable to great inequities”: Ibid., 271.
149. “The year 1765”: Ibid., 263.
150. He handled every kind of case: See, generally, Wroth and Zobel, Legal Papers of John Adams, , I, xxv–lx.
151. as “honest [a] lawyer”: Works, , I, 58.
152. “What shall I do”: DJA, I, 338.
153. “My good man”: AFC, I, 56.
154. “I want to see my wife”: Ibid., 83.
155. “My biographer”: DJA, I, 355.
156. “To what object”: Ibid., 337.
157. no difficulty saying no: Ibid., III, 288.
158. “He always called me John”: Peabody, ed., John Adams, 130.
159. soldiers suddenly opened fire: Zobel, Boston Massacre, 198–99.
160. John Adams was asked to defend: DJA, III, 292.
161. “incurring a clamor”: Ibid., 294.
162. a retainer of eighteen guineas: Ibid., 293.
163. “The only way to compose myself”: Ibid., I, 352.
164. If, by supporting the rights: Legal Papers of John Adams, III, 242.
165. two conspicuously fair trials: See ibid., Cases 63# and #64, 266.
166. “electrical”: Legal Papers of John Adams, III, 28. Comment of John Quincy Adams.
167. “I am for the prisoners”: Ibid., III, 242.
168. We have entertained: Ibid., 266.
169. “Do you expect”: Ibid., 268.
170. “The reason is”: Ibid., 242.
171. “Facts are stubborn”: Ibid., 269.
172. branded on their thumbs: Ibid., 31.
173. “one of the most gallant”: Ibid., 33.
174. “she thought I had done”: DJA, III, 294.
175. “Especially the constant”: Ibid., 296.
176. five hours: JA to John Adams Smith, June 15, 1812, 118#. MHS.
177. Government is nothing: DJA, II, 57.
178. “Above all things”: Ibid., 67
179. “I cannot but reflect”: Ibid., 76
180. the destruction of the tea: Ibid., 86.
181. “We live, my dear soul”: AFC, I, 107.
182. “in the dumps”: Ibid.
183. During a break: Peabody, ed., John Adams, 133-34.
184. “Swim or sink”:Works, IV. 8.
185. “It is not despair”: Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, XII, 317.
186. “Novangelus”: See, generally. PJA, II, 216-387.
187. dine with General Washington: AFC, I, 343.
188. Caughnawaga Indians: Ibid., 343.
189. “It was a savage feast”: DJA, II, 227.
190. decidedly pleased: AFC, I, 343.
191. Henry Knox: DJA, II, 227.
192. Diary of Henry Knox. MHS.
193. Fort Ticonderoga: DJA, II, 227.
194. making careful note of the inventory: Ibid., 227.
195. “cold journey”: AFC, I, 345.
196. “for the amusement of Swift”: DJA, III, 268.
197. ...as I was cold: Old Family Letters. 140.
198. “I could not join”: AFC, I, 324.
199. the title Common Sense: Ibid., 348.
200. “My God, these fellows”: Ibid., 358.
201. “marvelous in our eyes”: Ibid., 360.
2. TRUE BLUE
1. largest, wealthiest city: See, generally, Weigley, Philadelphia: A 300 Year History. 109-54.
2. Shipbuilding was a: Cresswell, Journal of Nicholas Cresswell. 156.
3. Franklin arrived from Boston: LeMay and Zall, eds., Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 24.
4. population was approaching ,: Bridenbaugh, Cities in Revolt. 216.
5. “I like it”: DJA, II, 136.
6. Front Street is near: Ibid., 116.
7. “All this is done”: LOD, I, 56.
8. prince’s palace: Ibid., III, 360.
9. “for the promoting of useful knowledge”: Pennsylvania Gazette, May 20, 1776.
10. all philosophical: Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin. 139.
11. twenty-three printing establishments: Stevens, Birthplace of a Nation. 95.
12. John Sparhawk: Pennsylvania Gazette, April 29, 1776.
13. thirty bookshops: Carl Bridenbaugh, “The Press and the Book in the Century Philadelphia,” PMHB, LXV (Jan. 1941): 13.
14. “dirty, dusty, and fatigued”: DJA, II, 114.
15. Adams had first met George Washington: Ibid., 141.
16. “I drink no cider”: AFC, I, 164.
17. “thundering of coaches”: PMHB, XLVIII (1924): 237.
18. most recent outbreak, 1773: Hopkins, Princes and Peasants, 243.
19. new hospital: DJA, II, 116.
20. “Philadelphia Salute”: Albertz, Benjamin West, 22-23.
21. Christ Church: DJA, II, 127.
22. “My time is too totally”: AFC, I, 155.
23. The Reverend Thomas Coombe: DJA, II, 122.
24. “He reaches the imagination”: Ibid., 156.
25. mass at St. Mary’s: Ibid., 150.
26. “awful”: AFC, I, 167.
27. at the State House: DJA, II, 134.
28. “I shall be killed”: AFC, I, 164.
29. “A most sinful feast”: DJA, II, 127.
30. “Dined with Mr. [Benjamin] Chew”: Ibid., 136.
31. “tall, spare”: Ibid., 120.
32. Roger Sherman: Ibid., 150.
33. “sly, surveying eye”: Ibid., 106.
34. “design and cunning”: Ibid., 121.
35. John Dickinson: Ibid., 117.
36. Caesar Rodney: Ibid., 121.
37. “The art and address”: AFC, I, 163.
38. This assembly: Ibid., 166.
39. “happy, peaceful”: DJA, II, 157.
40. “There are in this city”: AFC, I, 212.
41. in strictest secrecy: Ibid., 157.
42. “wasting, exhausting”: Ibid., 251.
43. “a great, unwieldy body”: Ibid., 216.
44. “I will not despond”: Ibid., 213.
45. “minds and hearts”: Ibid., 295.
46. “An alliance”: DJA, II, 231.
47. There is a tide: Quote from Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3.
48. “The plot thickens”: “Diary of James Allen,” PMHB, IX (1895): 186.
49. “The malignant air”: Christopher Marshall diary, February 15, 1776, Pennsylvania Historical Society.
50. “There is a deep anxiety”: AFC, I, 345.
51. the stoves were removed: LOD, III, 299.
52. Thomas Lynch of South Carolina: Ibid., 292.
53. Samuel Ward of Rhode Island: Ibid., 460.
54. “He has not assumed”: AFC, I, 252–53.
55. profane and pious: DJA, III, 371.
56. “Young Ned Rutledge”: Ibid., II, 156.
57. warning advice: Works, II, 512.
58. “avow their opinions”: DJA, I, 12.
59. “has an excellent heart”: Ibid., II, 133.
60. Olive Branch Petition: Ibid., 162.
61. “Powder and artillery
”: JA to John Gill, June 10, 1775. AP, MHS.
62. “blood...on their heads”: LOD, I, 373.
63. “What is the reason”: DJA, III, 318.
64. “piddling genius”: JA to James Warren, July 24, 1775, AP, MHS.
65. He passed without moving: DJA, II, 173.
66. “The Quakers and many others”: Seed, “A British Spy in Philadelphia,” PMHB, LXXXV (Jan. 1961): 22.
67. “an object of nearly universal”: Corner, ed., The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush. 142.
68. “Who is the author”: Philadelphia Evening Post, March 26, 1776.
69. “what they call the American flag”: Seed, “A British Spy in Philadelphia,” PMHB, LXXXV (Jan. 1961): 28-29.
70. “common faith”: AFC, I, 348.
71. “has a better hand”: Ibid., 363.
72. “this American contest”: Ibid., II, 2.
73. On February: 26: LOD, III, 306.
74. Silas Deane: Ibid., 320.
75. “decide the fate”: Ibid., 325.
76. Adams busily jotted notes: DJA, II, 236.
77. “clear and sonorous”: Works. , I, 31.
78. On March 14: DJA, III, 370.
79. On March 23: Ibid., 374.
80. “the maddest idea”: Calkins, “The American Navy and the Opinions of One of its Founders,” 457.
81. the pleasantest part of his labors: DJA, III, 350.
82. “dull as beetles”: ”: AFC, II, 170.
83. His custom: DJA, III, 350.
84. “Fortify, fortify”: LOD, III, 473.
85. “The middle way”: Ibid., 429.
86. “This story of [peace]”: AFC, I, 383.
87. “I am more and more”: Ibid., IV, 329.
88. “It has been the will of Heaven”: Thoughts on Government, in Works IV, 203ff.
89. “‘an empire of laws’”: Credited by Adams to James Harrington.
90. “Men of experience”: Works IV, 207.
91. “Frugality, industry”: AFC, I, 377.
92. “I have,” she wrote: Ibid., 369.
93. “I wish most sincerely”: Ibid., 162.
94. “I think the sun”: ”: Ibid., 370.
95. “Remember all men”: Ibid., 329. Quote from Daniel Defoe, The Kentish Petition, in Bartlett’s Quotations.
96. “I cannot but laugh”: Ibid., 382.
97. “People can’t account”: PJA, IV, 45.
98. “Have you seen the privateering”: LOD, III, 536.
99. “All great changes”: Ibid., 570.
100. “I miss my partner”: AFC, I, 375.
101. On April 18 Ibid., 387
102. on April 23: Ibid., 392.
103. Is there no way: Ibid., 400.
104. “a people may let a King”: Ibid., 402.
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