1789–1825
Letter from John Adams to To H. Niles (1818)
The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to
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The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to
“From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 October 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ud04. DEAR SIR, — Seven o’clock, and retired to my fireside, I have determined to enter into conversation
I received in due season the address of the legislature of Vermont, bearing date the 5th of November, 1806, in which, with their approbation of the general course of my
To the President of the United States. Being met in this our annual assembly, for the well ordering the affairs of our Religious Society, and the promotion of universal righteousness,
I have the Pleasure to assure you that all the Society’s Missionaries, without excepting one, in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, &, so far as I can learn, in the
SAVANNAH JANY 14TH 1779 Long have I wish’d my dearest Cornelia for the Departure of a Vessel from this Place that I might communicate to you the glad Tidings of
Dear Sir I have been too much engaged since the enemy crossed the Catabaw to keep up my correspondence regularly with you. I have had the pleasure to receive several
Sir My letter to Congress a copy of which I inclose your Excellency will inform you of an unsuccessful action with Lord Cornwallis on the 15th. Our prospects were flattering;
Camp on the Pedee General de Portail being released from captivity and on his way to the Northward affords me an opportunity of writing you (which I have done by
Headquarters, Valley Forge, I barely hinted to you my dearest Father my desire to augment the Continental Forces from an untried Source—I wish I had any foundation to ask for