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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
The Adams Family Papers
Adams Family Correspondence
Boston Athenaeum Bostonian
Society Boston Public Library
The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
Massachusetts State Archives
New England Historical and Genealogical Society
New York Historical
Society New York Public Library
Smithsonian Institution
NEWSPAPERS
American Citizen
Boston Evening Post
Boston Gazette
Boston
News-Letter
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Massachusetts Centinel
Massachusetts
Spy
National Intelligencer
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Philadelphia
Aurora
GENERAL REFERENCES
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Dictionary of American Biography
The Encyclopedia of American Education
The Encyclopedia of American History
Encyclopedia Britannica
La grande encyclopédie
Webster's American Biographies
Webster's New Biographical Dictionary
Index
Abolition/slavery
and
Amistad
case
and Committee of Friends of the Right to Petition
and free speech
and Gag Rule
and petition, right of
and petitions from Pennsylvania Quakers
and union, dissolution of
Adams, Abigail “Abby” (née Brooks; wife of Charles Francis Adams)
and birth of daughter (Louisa Catherine Adams)
and birth of first son (John Quincy Adams II)
and birth of second son (Charles Francis Adams Jr.)
marriage of
Adams, Abigail “Nabby” (daughter of John Adams) (photo)
birth of
illness of
marriage of
Adams, Abigail (née Smith; wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams)
and Adams, Louisa Catherine, relationship between
and black cockade
and Bunker's Hill, Battle of, witnessing of
burial place of

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