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John Adams mentions 26 known people in the 306 Letters we have on record. Out of these people John Jay is mentioned the most. Who did John Adams know? View John Adams's social graph.

George Washington

George Washington

John Adams documents that mention George Washington (8 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 September 1777

    Mr. Howe's army is at Chester, about fifteen miles from this town. General Washington's is over the Schuylkill, awaiting the flank of Mr. Howe's army.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 30 September 1777

    the Congress were alarmed in their beds by a letter from Mr. Hamilton, one of General Washington's family, that the enemy was in possession of the ford over the Schuylkill

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 24 October 1777

    News I am afraid to write, be cause I never know, until it is too late, what is true.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 26 October 1777

    The forts at Province Island and Redbank have been defended with a magnanimity which will give our country a reputation in Europe.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Amsterdam, NED - 2 December 1781

    I avoided saying any thing about Charles to save you the anxiety, which I fear you will now feel in its greatest severity, a long time. I thought he would go directly home in a short passage

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Amsterdam, NED - 18 December 1781

    The King of England consoles his people under all their dis graces, disasters and dismal prospects, by telling them that they are brave and free. It is a pity for him that he did not allow the Americans to be so seven years ago.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 27 February 1796

    I DINED yesterday with Mr. Madison. Mrs. Madison is a fine woman, and her two sisters are equally so.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 30 December 1796

    The President says he must sell something to en able him to clear out. When a man is about retiring from public life, and sees nothing but a ploughshare between him and the grave, he naturally thinks most upon that.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams documents that mention Thomas Jefferson (7 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Amsterdam, NED - 11 March 1788

    I hope you will have every thing ready, that by the twenty-first or second of March, we may set off together for Falmouth from London.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Amsterdam, NED - 14 March 1788

    Mr. Jefferson is so anxious to obtain money here to enable him to discharge some of the most urgent demands upon the United States, and preserve their credit from bankruptcy for two years longer

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 9 January 1793

    I have the same aversion to the multiplication of banks, and the same apprehension of their pernicious tendency, as you express. But so many people live upon them that they will have their course.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 5 December 1793

    The President's speech will show you an abundance of serious business which we have before us. Mr. Jefferson called on me last night, and informed me that to-day we should have the whole budget of foreign affairs

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 13 March 1796

    I COVET the harp of Amphion. What would I not give for the harp of Amphion ?

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 13 March 1797

    I AM so constantly engaged in business, most of which is new to me, that it seems as if it was impossible to find time to write even to you ; yet I believe I write every post.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Washington, MD - 16 February 1801

    The election will be decided this day in favor of Mr. Jefferson, as it is given out by good authority.

John Jay

John Jay

John Adams documents that mention John Jay (11 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Paris, FRA - 30 May 1783

    HERE I am out of all patience. Not a word from America. The British ministry lingering on. Mr. Hartley uncertain what to do. No regulation of commerce agreed on. No definitive treaty of peace signed

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Paris, FRA - 7 September 1783

    Mr. Laurens has leave to go home, and Mr. Dana is gone, so that there remain in service only Mr. Franklin, Mr. Jay, and myself. In these circumstances I must stay another winter.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Paris, FRA - 10 September 1783

    WE have received from Congress a resolution by which we are to be empowered to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, myself, Mr. Franklin and Mr. Jay.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 January 1793

    I have received all the votes from all the States. It is known that Georgia voted with North Carolina, Virginia and New York ; and Kentucky voted for Jefferson.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 19 April 1794

    SENATE has been three days in debate upon the appointment of Mr. Jay to go to London. It has this day been determined in his favor eighteen versus eight.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 29 January 1795

    THE public prints announce the death of my old, esteemed friend General Roberdeau, whose virtues in heart-searching times endeared him to Philadelphia and to his country.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 2 February 1795

    The enclosed postscript to Dunlap will show you that the expectation of a treaty hourly to arrive, will not allow me to leave my chair till the fourth of March.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 June 1795

    Moderation, however, is approved only by the moderate, who are commonly but a few. The many commonly delight in some thing more piquant and lively.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 9 April 1796

    I am so fatigued and disgusted with the insipidity of this dull life, that I am half of a mind to vow that if Washington don t resign, I will. The old hero looks very grave of late.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 January 1797

    Mr. Madison is to retire. It seems the mode of becoming great is to retire. Madison, I suppose, after a retirement of a few years, is to be President or Vice President.

  • John Adams letter to John Jay

    Quincy, MA - 9 January 1819

    My family are reading it to me every evening, and though we have not finished it, we have proceeded far enough to excite an earnest desire to know your opinion of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

John Adams documents that mention Benjamin Franklin (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Paris, FRA - 10 September 1783

    WE have received from Congress a resolution by which we are to be empowered to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, myself, Mr. Franklin and Mr. Jay.

  • John Adams letter to Rufus King

    Quincy, MA - 2 December 1814

    Can there be any deeper damnation in this Universe than to be condemned to a long Life, in danger Toil and anxiety?

John Adams

John Adams

John Adams documents that mention John Adams (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 23 January 1796

    The southern gentry are playing, at present, a very artful game, which I may develope to you in confidence hereafter, under the seal of secrecy.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 4 December 1796

    Yesterday I dined with the President, in company with John Watts, the king of the Cherokees, with a large number of his chiefs and their wives

James Monroe

James Monroe

(colleague)

John Adams documents that mention James Monroe (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 January 1797

    Mr. Madison is to retire. It seems the mode of becoming great is to retire. Madison, I suppose, after a retirement of a few years, is to be President or Vice President.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry

John Adams documents that mention Patrick Henry (3 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 5 January 1795

    To a heart that loves praise so well, and receives so little of it, your letter is like laudanum, which Mr. Henry the senator, says, is the Divinity itself.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 7 January 1796

    The President appears great in Randolph's vindication throughout, excepting that he wavered about signing the treaty, which he ought not to have done one moment.

  • John Adams letter to John Jay

    Quincy, MA - 9 January 1819

    My family are reading it to me every evening, and though we have not finished it, we have proceeded far enough to excite an earnest desire to know your opinion of it.

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams

John Adams documents that mention Samuel Adams (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to John Jay

    Quincy, MA - 9 January 1819

    My family are reading it to me every evening, and though we have not finished it, we have proceeded far enough to excite an earnest desire to know your opinion of it.

Benedict Arnold

Benedict Arnold

John Adams documents that mention Benedict Arnold (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    unknown -

    YESTERDAY we went to see the garden of the King, Jardin du Roi, and his cabinet of natural history, cabinet d histoire naturelle. The cabinet of natural history is a great collection of metals, minerals, shells, insects, birds, beasts, fishes and pre

Anthony Wayne

Anthony Wayne

John Adams documents that mention Anthony Wayne (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 8 February 1796

    IT is Monday, the time to expect the eastern mail. Other men have letters, I have none. Humiliated and mortified, and, at the same time, irritated, I feel sometimes a disposition to abuse the post offices

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 13 February 1796

    There is a Dr. somebody here from Connecticut, who pretends, with an instrument made of some kind of metal or composition of metals, by a sort of mesmerian rubbing, or stroking, or conjuration, to cure rheumatisms, headaches, pleurisies, and I know n

Horatio Gates

Horatio Gates

John Adams documents that mention Horatio Gates (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 30 September 1777

    the Congress were alarmed in their beds by a letter from Mr. Hamilton, one of General Washington's family, that the enemy was in possession of the ford over the Schuylkill

Timothy Pickering

Timothy Pickering

(colleague)

John Adams documents that mention Timothy Pickering (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 25 March 1796

    After dinner the gentlemen drew off after the ladies, and left me alone with the President in close conversation. He detained me there till nine o clock, and was never more frank and open upon politics.

Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene

John Adams documents that mention Nathanael Greene (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Amsterdam, NED - 2 December 1781

    I avoided saying any thing about Charles to save you the anxiety, which I fear you will now feel in its greatest severity, a long time. I thought he would go directly home in a short passage

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr

John Adams documents that mention Aaron Burr (3 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 12 March 1796

    I DINED yesterday with Mr. Burr, who lives here in style. A number of members of the House, the Speaker Mr. Dayton, among the rest.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Stratford, CT - 27 November 1796

    It will purify me from all envy of Mr. Jefferson, or Mr. Pinckney, or Mr. Burr, or Mr. any body who may be chosen President or Vice President.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 8 December 1796

    ENCLOSED are some signal accomplishments of prophecies. Be cool and discreet in your communications of them.

Robert Troup

Robert Troup

John Adams documents that mention Robert Troup (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 30 September 1777

    the Congress were alarmed in their beds by a letter from Mr. Hamilton, one of General Washington's family, that the enemy was in possession of the ford over the Schuylkill

John Hancock

John Hancock

(colleague)

John Adams documents that mention John Hancock (1 total)

Robert Morris

Robert Morris

John Adams documents that mention Robert Morris (4 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 5 December 1794

    This session of Congress is the most innocent I ever knew. We have done no harm.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 29 January 1795

    THE public prints announce the death of my old, esteemed friend General Roberdeau, whose virtues in heart-searching times endeared him to Philadelphia and to his country.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 19 June 1795

    He gave me many details of affairs in France ; a gloomy picture of the reign of terror, and a smiling one of the present reign of moderation ; but he is not without inquietude on the subject of a constitution.

  • John Adams letter to John Jay

    Hague, NED - 2 April 1784

    By leading a quiet life, and by great care and regular exercise, I have happily recovered a little health, and if you think it necessary, I might now venture on a journey to Paris.

George Clinton

George Clinton

John Adams documents that mention George Clinton (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Passy, FRA - 16 June 1778

    We long to hear from America the ratification of the treaty with France, the captivity of General Clinton's army, and of Lord Howe's fleet.

Benjamin Lincoln

Benjamin Lincoln

John Adams documents that mention Benjamin Lincoln (3 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 24 January 1793

    I cannot say that my desire of fame increases. It has been strong in some parts of my life, but never so strong as my love of honesty.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 2 January 1794

    The news from France, so glorious for the French army, is celebrated in loud peals of festivity, and elevates the spirits of the enemies of government among us more than it ought, for it will not answer their ends.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 11 January 1797

    ON Tuesday, when I waited, as usual, on Mrs. Washington, after attending the levee, she congratulated me very complaisantly and affectionately on my election, and went farther and said more than I expected.

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams documents that mention Alexander Hamilton (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 29 January 1795

    THE public prints announce the death of my old, esteemed friend General Roberdeau, whose virtues in heart-searching times endeared him to Philadelphia and to his country.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 1 March 1796

    YESTERDAY the President sent his carriage for me to go with the family to the theatre. The Rage and the Spoiled Child were the two pieces. It rained and the house was not full.

Christopher Greene

Christopher Greene

John Adams documents that mention Christopher Greene (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 26 October 1777

    The forts at Province Island and Redbank have been defended with a magnanimity which will give our country a reputation in Europe.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Yorktown, PA - 28 October 1777

    WE have been three days soaking and poaching in the heaviest rain that has been known for several years

Charles Hector

Charles Hector

John Adams documents that mention Charles Hector (4 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Passy, FRA - 6 November 1778

    My anxiety for you and for the public is not diminished by time or distance. The great number of accidental disappointments in the course of the last summer are afflicting.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Passy, FRA - 18 December 1778

    I have written several answers ; but upon a review, they appeared to be such as I could not send. One was angry, another was full of grief, and the third with melancholy, so that I burnt them all.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Passy, FRA - 30 December 1778

    WE wait, and wait, and wait forever, without any news from America. We get nothing but what comes from England and to other people here, and they make it as they please.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Paris, FRA - 23 February 1780

    THE children made me a visit to-day, and went with me to dine with my old friends, the two Abbes, whom you have often heard me mention, Chalut and Arnoux

James Madison

James Madison

John Adams documents that mention James Madison (2 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 23 November 1794

    IT is a common observation of old people, that as they advance in life, time appears to run off faster, and the year grows shorter. I cannot, I am sure, say the same of the time which has passed of late.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 14 January 1797

    Mr. Madison is to retire. It seems the mode of becoming great is to retire. Madison, I suppose, after a retirement of a few years, is to be President or Vice President.

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams

John Adams documents that mention Abigail Adams (3 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 24 January 1793

    I cannot say that my desire of fame increases. It has been strong in some parts of my life, but never so strong as my love of honesty.

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 8 February 1796

    IT is Monday, the time to expect the eastern mail. Other men have letters, I have none. Humiliated and mortified, and, at the same time, irritated, I feel sometimes a disposition to abuse the post offices

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 9 March 1797

    The President and Mrs. Washington go off this morning for Mount Vernon. Yesterday afternoon he came to make me his farewell visit

Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison

(acquaintance)

John Adams documents that mention Dolley Madison (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Abigail Adams

    Philadelphia, PA - 27 February 1796

    I DINED yesterday with Mr. Madison. Mrs. Madison is a fine woman, and her two sisters are equally so.

Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry

(friend, colleague)

John Adams documents that mention Elbridge Gerry (1 total)

  • John Adams letter to Rufus King

    Quincy, MA - 2 December 1814

    Can there be any deeper damnation in this Universe than to be condemned to a long Life, in danger Toil and anxiety?