Adams Papers Digital Edition

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 2

John Adams to Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams to John Adams
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1777 JA AA

1777-07-01

 John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1777 Adams, John Adams, Abigail
John Adams to Abigail Adams
Philadelphia July 1. 1777

We have no News: a long, cold, raw, northeast Storm has chilled our Blood, for two days past. It is unusual, to have a storm from that 272Point, in June and July. It is an Omen no doubt. Pray what can it mean?

I have so little Ingenuity, at interpreting the Auspices, that I am unable to say whether it bodes Evil to Howe, or to Us.

I rather think it augurs a fine Crop of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Corn, Spelts, Buckwheat, and Grass. It is a Presage of Plenty. Therefore let the Land rejoice. Flax and Cotton will grow, the better for this Weather.

 July 2d.

The News Papers, inclosed, with this, will tell you all, that I know concerning the military operations in N. Jersey.

We have a Letter from Arthur Lee, from Spain, giving Us comfortable Assurances of Friendship and Commerce. We may trade to the Havannah and to New Orleans, as well as to Old Spain.1

RC (Adams Papers). Enclosed newspapers not found or identified.

1.

Arthur Lee to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Vitoria, 18 March, read in Congress on 1 July ( JCC , 8:514), and printed in Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 2:292–296.