Legal Papers of John Adams, volume 2
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are available in this digital edition.]
Treasurer of the Province, tory, and sometime client of John Adams; see 1 JA, Diary and Autobiography
210–212, 270; 2 id.
11.
Courtesy of Henry Vaughan and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Note the predominance of informations and seizures, that is, customs litigation; but Doane v. Gage, No. 43, appears at the top of the right-hand page.
From the Suffolk Files, courtesy of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
An aggressive Son of Liberty who utilized his position as justice of the peace to further the patriot cause, Dana was one of the justices who committed Richardson (No. 59), and one of those who conducted the depositions in the aftermath of the Boston Massacre.
Courtesy of Richard H. Dana.
The appointment of this Nantucket merchant and whaleman to the local customs office provoked a heated legal battle culminating in Folger v. Sloop Cornelia, No. 45.
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924.
The tragic ornament of the Boston bar, with “Apprehension Diary and Autobiography
84.
Courtesy of Mrs. Carlos P. Hepp.
Courtroom opponent and, later, Congressional colleague of John Adams, Paine apparently lacked the intellectual openness and gracious demeanor which Adams considered essential to a member of the bar. See 1 JA, Diary and Autobiography
4, 59–60. This statue, which stands in front of the City Hall, Taunton, Massachusetts (Paine's native town), is not from life.
Photograph courtesy of Emmett Calvey.
Adams' Harvard classmate and friend; as Governor of New Hampshire and Surveyor General of the Woods, he was able in later years to direct some legal business to his old companion. See Surveyor General v. Logs, No. 54.
Courtesy of Pierre Le Moyne Wentworth and the Frick Art Reference Library.
John Adams knew this loyalist more as a proprietor of the Kennebec Company, and hence as a valued client, than as a medical man.
Courtesy of Robert H. Gardiner, Esq.
The Comptroller of the Customs at Portsmouth, Traill sat ex officio on the Special Commission which heard the evidence in Rex v. Corbet, No. 56.
Courtesy of Charles P. Heffenger and the Frick Art Reference Library.
The great Essex County merchant and shipowner, John Adams' occasional client; owner of the brig Pitt Packet, which was the scene of the tragedy in Rex v. Corbet, No. 56.
Courtesy of Robert C. Hooper, Esq., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Anonymously composed, and illustrated with a woodcut after Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, this broadside must have been written after 10 March 1772, when Richardson was “enlarged” (discharged); but the squib along the left margin dates itself 5 March 1772. The discrepancy has not been explained. See Clarence S. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings 50 (Worcester, 1954); Rex v. Richardson, No. 59.
Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.