- John Adams letter to Abigail Adams.
Philadelphia, PA - 18 February 1776
I SENT you from New York a pamphlet intitled "Common Sense," written in vindication of doctrines, which there is reason to expect, that the further encroachments of tyranny and depredations of oppression will soon make the common faith
- Charles Lee letter to George Washington.
Stamford, CT - 24 January 1776
I find the people through this Province more alive and zealous than my most sanguine expectation. I believe I might have collected ten thousand volunteers.
- Abigail Adams letter to John Adams.
Braintree, MA - 2 March 1776
Abigail Adams letter to John Adams... a most ridiculous story had been industriously propagated in this and the neighbouring towns to injure the cause and blast your reputation...
- John Adams letter to Abigail Adams.
Philadelphia, PA - 19 March 1776
I am much pleased with your caution in your letter, in avoiding names both of persons and places, or any other circumstances, which might designate to strangers the writer, or the person written to, or the persons mentioned.
- Abigail Adams letter to John Adams.
Braintree, MA - 7 April 1776
Abigail Adams letter to John Adams... The removal of the army seems to have stopped the current of news. I want to know to what part of America they are now wandering.
- John Adams letter to Abigail Adams.
Philadelphia, PA - 14 April 1776
As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh... Depend upon it, we know better than to repeal our masculine systems. Although they are in full force, you know they are little more than theory.
- John Adams letter to Abigail Adams.
Philadelphia, PA - 28 April 1776
Instead of domestic felicity, I am destined to public contentions. Instead of rural felicity, I must reconcile myself to the smoke and noise of a city. In the place of private peace, I must be distracted with the vexation of developing the deep intri
