Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1764–1787

“An American Monarchy or a Republic?”

Source: “From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 8 January 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-03-02-0202; “To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 10 March 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives,

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1764–1787

Redcoats in South Carolina

Source: Caroline Gilman, ed., Letters of Eliza Wilkinson (New York, 1839), 24, 27-31. https://archive.org/details/lettersofelizawi00wilk/page/24 All this time we had not seen the face of an enemy, not an open one—for

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1491–1764

Thoughts

Source: The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757, Carol F. Karlsen and Laurie Crumpacker, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 57, 61, 64, 68–70, 72, 76–77, 81, 92, 94,

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1789–1825

Remarks on the Removal Power

Source: James Madison, Speech on the Removal Power of the President, [16 June] 1789, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/o2MFpz; “From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 21 June 1789,” Founders Online,

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