Papers of John Adams, volume 7
In the first three sections (1–3) of the six sections of this Guide are listed, respectively, the arbitrary devices used for clarifying the text, the code names for designating prominent members of the Adams family, and the symbols describing the various kinds of MS originals used or referred to, that are employed throughout
The Adams Papers
in all its series and parts. In the final three sections (4–6) are listed, respectively, only those symbols designating institutions holding original materials, the various abbreviations and conventional terms, and the short titles of books and other works, that occur in volumes 7 and 8 of the Papers of John Adams. The editors propose to maintain this pattern for the Guide to Editorial Apparatus in each of the smaller units, published at intervals, of all the series and parts of the edition that are so extensive as to continue through many volumes. On the other hand, in short and specialized series and/or parts of the edition, the Guide to Editorial Apparatus will be given more summary form tailored to its immediate purpose.
The following devices will be used throughout The Adams Papers to clarify the presentation of the text.
| [...], [....] | One or two words missing and not conjecturable. |
[...]1, [....]1
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More than two words missing and not conjecturable; subjoined footnote estimates amount of missing matter. |
| [ ] | Number or part of a number missing or illegible. Amount of blank space inside brackets approximates the number of missing or illegible digits. |
| [roman] | Editorial insertion or conjectural reading for missing or illegible matter. A question mark is inserted before the closing bracket if the conjectural reading is seriously doubtful. |
<italic> |
Matter canceled in the manuscript but restored in our text. |
First Generation
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| JA | John Adams (1735–1826) |
| AA | Abigail Smith (1744–1818), m.
JA 1764 |
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Second Generation
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| AA2 | Abigail Adams (1765–1813), daughter of JA and AA, m.
WSS 1786 |
| WSS | William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), brother of Mrs. CA |
| JQA | John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), son of JA and AA |
| LCA | Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775–1852), m.
JQA 1797 |
| CA | Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of JA and AA |
| Mrs. CA | Sarah Smith (1769–1828), sister of WSS, m.
CA 1795 |
| TBA | Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), son of JA and AA |
| Mrs. TBA | Ann Harrod (1774–1846), m.
TBA 1805 |
Third Generation
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| GWA | George Washington Adams (1801–1829), son of JQA and LCA |
| JA2 | John Adams (1803–1834), son of JQA and LCA |
| Mrs. JA2 | Mary Catherine Hellen (1807–1870), m.
JA2 1828 |
| CFA | Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886), son of JQA and LCA |
| ABA | Abigail Brown Brooks (1808–1889), m.
CFA 1829 |
| ECA | Elizabeth Coombs Adams (1808–1903), daughter of TBA and Mrs. TBA |
Fourth Generation
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| LCA2 | Louisa Catherine Adams (1831–1870), daughter of CFA and ABA, m. Charles Kuhn 1854 |
| JQA2 | John Quincy Adams (1833–1894), son of CFA and ABA |
| CFA2 | Charles Francis Adams (1835–1915), son of CFA and ABA |
| HA | Henry Adams (1838–1918), son of CFA and ABA |
| MHA | Marian Hooper (1842–1885), m.
HA 1872 |
| MA | Mary Adams (1845–1928), daughter of CFA and ABA, m. Henry Parker Quincy 1877 |
| BA | Brooks Adams (1848–1927), son of CFA and ABA |
Fifth Generation
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| CFA3 | Charles Francis Adams (1866–1954), son of JQA2 |
| HA2 | Henry Adams (1875–1951), son of CFA2 |
| JA3 | John Adams (1875–1964), son of CFA2 |
The following symbols will be employed throughout The Adams Papers to describe or identify in brief form various kinds of manuscript originals.
| D | Diary (Used only to designate a diary written by a member of the Adams family and always in combination with the short form of the writer's name and a serial number, as follows: xxxiiD/JA/23, i.e., the twenty-third fascicle or volume of John Adams' manuscript Diary.) |
| Dft | draft |
| Dupl | duplicate |
| FC | file copy (Ordinarily a copy of a letter retained by a correspondent other than an Adams, for example Jefferson's press copies and polygraph copies, since all three of the Adams statesmen systematically entered copies of their outgoing letters in letterbooks.) |
| Lb | Letterbook (Used only to designate Adams letterbooks and always in combination with the short form of the writer's name and a serial number, as follows: Lb/JQA/29, i.e., the twenty-ninth volume of John Quincy Adams' Letterbooks.) |
| LbC | letterbook copy (Letterbook copies are normally unsigned, but any such copy is assumed to be in the hand of the person responsible for the text unless it is otherwise described.) |
| M | Miscellany (Used only to designate materials in the section of the Adams Papers known as the “Miscellany” and always in combination with the short form of the writer's name and a serial number, as follows: M/CFA/32, i.e., the thirty-second volume of the Charles Francis Adams Miscellany—a ledger volume mainly containing transcripts made by CFA in 1833 of selections from the family papers.) |
| MS, MSS | manuscript, manuscripts |
| RC | recipient's copy (A recipient's copy is assumed to be in the hand of the signer unless it is otherwise described.) |
| Tr | transcript (A copy, handwritten or typewritten, made substantially later than the original or than other copies—such as duplicates, file copies, letterbook copies—that were made contemporaneously.) |
| Tripl | triplicate |
| BM | British Museum |
| CSmH | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery |
| CWhC | Whittier College |
| CtHi | Connecticut Historical Society |
| CtNhHi | New Haven Colony Historical Society |
| CtY | Yale University Library |
| DLC | Library of Congress |
| DNA | National Archives |
| DSI | Smithsonian Institution |
| IHi | Illinois State Historical Library |
| M-Ar | Massachusetts Archives |
| MH-H | Houghton Library, Harvard University |
| MHi | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| NHi | New-York Historical Society |
| NIC | Cornell University Library |
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| NN | New York Public Library |
| NNC | Columbia University Library |
| NNPM | Pierpont Morgan Library |
| NhD | Dartmouth College Library |
| NjHi | New Jersey Historical Society |
| NjP | Princeton University Library |
| PHi | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| PPAmP | American Philosophical Society |
| PPL | Library Company of Philadelphia |
| PU | University of Pennsylvania Library |
| PWacD | David Library of the American Revolution |
| RNHi | Newport Historical Society |
| ScHi | South Carolina Historical Society |
| ViU | University of Virginia Library |
| VtU | University of Vermont Library |
- Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (see below). The location of materials in the Letterbooks and the Miscellany is given more fully, and often, if the original would be hard to locate, by the microfilm reel number.
- The portion of the Adams manuscripts given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Thomas Boylston Adams in 1973 and retained in the editorial office of the Adams Papers.
- Other materials in the Adams Papers editorial office, Massachusetts Historical Society. These include photoduplicated documents (normally cited by the location of the originals), photographs, correspondence, and bibliographical and other aids compiled and accumulated by the editorial staff.
- Adams manuscripts dating 1890 or later, originally part of the Trust collection together with Adams manuscripts acquired from other sources, administered by the Massachusetts Historical Society on the same footing with its other manuscript collections.
- The corpus of the Adams Papers, 1639–1889, as published on microfilm by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1954–1959, in 608 reels. Cited in the present work, when necessary, by reel number. Available in research xxxivlibraries throughout the United States and in a few libraries in Europe, Canada, and New Zealand.
- The present edition, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. References to earlier volumes of any given unit take this form: vol. 3:171. Since there will be no overall volume numbering for the edition, references from one series, or unit of a series, to another will be by title, volume, and page; for example, JQA,
Papers,4:205. (For the same reason, references by scholars citing this edition should not be toThe Adams Papersas a whole but to the particular series or subseries concerned; for example, John Adams,Diary and Autobiography, 3:145;Adams Family Correspondence, 6:167.) - Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris, Correspondance Politique.
- Koninklijk Huisarchief, The Hague.
- Papers of the Continental Congress. Originals in the National Archives: Record Group 360. Microfilm edition in 204 reels. Usually cited in the present work from the microfilms, but according to the original series and volume numbering devised in the State Department in the early 19th century; for example, PCC, No. 93, III, i.e., the third volume of series 93.
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Adams Family Correspondence,ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– -
American Historical Review. - Gardner Weld Allen,
Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution(Massachusetts Historical Society,Collections,vol. 77), Boston, 1927. - Gardner Weld Allen,
A Naval History of the American Revolution,Boston and New York, 1913; 2 vols. - James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds.,
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography,New York, 1887–1889; 6 vols. - Samuel Flagg Bemis,
The Diplomacy of the American Revolution: The Foundations of American Diplomacy, 1775–1823,New York and London, 1935. - City of Boston, Record Commissioners,
Reports,Boston, 1876–1909; 39 vols.
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- Samuel A. Bates, ed.,
Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793,Randolph, Mass., 1886. - Edmund C. Burnett, ed.,
Letters of Members of the Continental Congress,Washington, 1921–1936; 8 vols. - I. Minis Hays, comp.,
Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society,Philadelphia, 1908; 5 vols. -
The Cambridge Modern History,New York, 1909–1910; 12 vols. -
Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston,Boston, 1917. - Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds.,
Dictionary of American Biography,New York, 1928–1936; 20 vols. plus index and supplements. - Papers of Silas Deane, 1774–1790, in New-York Historical Society,
Collections, Publication Fund Series,vols. 19–23, New York, 1887–1891; 5 vols. - Isabel de Madariaga,
Britain, Russia and the Armed Neutrality of 1780,New Haven, 1962. - U.S. Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division,
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,Washington, 1959–. - Mitford M. Mathews, ed.,
A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles,Chicago, 1951. - Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds.,
The Dictionary of National Biography,New York and London, 1885–1900; 63 vols. plus supplements. - Jonathan R. Dull,
The French Navy and American Independence: a Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774–1787, Princeton, 1915. - Friedrich Edler,
The Dutch Republic and the American Revolution,Baltimore, 1911. - Charles Evans and others, comps.,
American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America[1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, 1903–1959; 14 vols. - [Peter Force, ed.,]
American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs,Washington, 1837–1853; 9 vols.
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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin,ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox (from vol. 15), and others, New Haven, 1959– -
Despatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 1778–1780: Correspondence of the First French Minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes,ed. John J. Meng, Baltimore, 1939. - Ira D. Gruber,
The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution,New York, 1972. - Francis B. Heitman, comp.,
Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution,new edn., Washington, 1914. - J. C. F. Hoefer, ed.,
Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours,Paris, 1852–1866; 46 vols. -
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams,ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. -
Legal Papers of John Adams,ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, Cambridge, 1965; 3 vols. -
Papers of John Adams,ed. Robert J. Taylor, Gregg L. Lint and others, Cambridge, 1977– -
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author,ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856; 10 vols. - Worthington C. Ford and others, eds.,
Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789,Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen (from vol. 21), and others, Princeton, 1950– -
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848,ed. Charles Francis Adams, Philadelphia, 1874–1877; 12 vols. -
Diary of John Quincy Adams,ed. David Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, and others, Cambridge, 1981– -
Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay from ... September 1, 1779, to ... June 16, 1780,Boston, 1832. - Pierre Larousse,
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXParis, [1865]; 15 vols. and supplements.esiècle ... , - Richard Henry Lee,
Life of Arthur Lee,Boston, 1829; 2 vols.
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- Piers Mackesy,
The War for America, 1775–1783,Cambridge, 1965. - Alfred Thayer Mahan,
The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence,Boston, 1913. - Georg Friedrich von Martens, ed.,
Recueil des principaux traités d'alliance, de paix, de trêve ... conclus par les puissances de l'Europe ... depuis 1761 jusqu'à présent ... Par Mr. de Martens,Gottingue, 1791–1801; 7 vols. -
Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts[1715– ], Boston, reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919– . (For the years for which reprints are not yet available, the original printings are cited, by year and session.) -
The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay,Boston, 1869–1922; 21 vols. -
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War,Boston, 1896–1908; 17 vols. - Massachusetts Historical Society,
CollectionsandProceedings. - Hunter Miller, ed.,
Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America,Washington, 1931–1948; 8 vols. - Daniel A. Miller,
Sir Joseph Yorke and Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1774–1780,The Hague, 1970. - Samuel Eliot Morison,
John Paul Jones, a Sailor's Biography,Boston and Toronto, 1959. - Richard B. Morris,
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence,New York, 1965. - William Bell Clark, William James Morgan (from vol. 5), and others, eds.,
Naval Documents of the American Revolution,Washington, 1964– -
New England Historical and Genealogical Register. -
The Oxford English Dictionary,Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. -
The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803,London, 1806–1820; 36 vols. -
Parliamentary Register,ed. John Almon, London, 1774–1780; 17 vols.
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A History of Old Braintree and Quincy, with a Sketch of Randolph and Holbrook,Quincy, 1878. -
Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648),ed. Ludwig Bittner and others, Oldenburg, &c., 1936–1965; 3 vols. -
Letters of Benjamin Rush,ed. L. H. Butterfield, Princeton, 1951; 2 vols. - John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton,
Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,Cambridge and Boston, 1873– . - Paul H. Smith and others, eds.,
Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789,Washington, 1976– . - William C. Stinchcombe,
The American Revolution and the French Alliance,Syracuse, New York, 1969. -
Letters and Papers of Major-General John Sullivan, Continental Army, 1771–1795,ed. Otis G. Hammond (New Hampshire Historical Society,Collections,vols. 13–15), Concord, 1930–1939; 3 vols. - Francis N. Thorpe, ed.,
The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America,Washington, 1909; 7 vols. - Christopher Ward,
The War of the Revolution,New York, 1952; 2 vols. -
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799,ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931–1944; 39 vols. -
Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren(Massachusetts Historical Society,Collections,vols. 72–73), Boston, 1917–1925; 2 vols. - Francis Wharton, ed.,
The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States,Washington, 1889; 6 vols. - Henry B. Wheatley,
London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions,London, 1891; 3 vols. -
William and Mary Quarterly.