Adams Papers Indexes | Adams Papers, Cumulative Index to volumes published through 2008 | P | Privateers and Privateering
John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 29 March 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 1:367]
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 April 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 1:377]+
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 1:403]+
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 1:411]
Mary Palmer to John Adams, 15 June 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:10]
Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 17 June 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:17]
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:89]+
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:98]+
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 September 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:123]
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 September 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:130]+
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1776 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:135]
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 April 1777 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:196]+
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 April 1777 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:219]+
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 May 1777 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:234]+
Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 14 June 1777 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:263]
Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 13 August 1777 [Adams Family Correspondence 2:311]
To the President of Congress, No. 35, 4 April 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:109]+
To the President of Congress, No. 44, 14 April 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:136]+
To John Jay, 13 May 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:310]+
To Benjamin Pierce, 10 June 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:404]+
Bidé de Chavagnes to John Adams: A Translation, 8 June 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:392]+
Enclosure: A List of Pamphlets and Newspapers, 25 April – 10 June 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:398]
To Benjamin Pierce, 10 June 1780 [Papers of John Adams 9:404]+
To the President of Congress, No. 7, 16 September 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:157]
To the President of Congress, No. 7, 16 September 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:158]+
From William Lee, 5 October 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:256]+
To the President of Congress, No. 28, 21 December 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:427]+
From Thomas Digges, 22 December 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:428]+
From William Lee, 27 December 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:442]+
Hendrik Calkoen to John Adams: A Translation, 31 August 1780 [Papers of John Adams 10:116]
From Francis Dana, 22 October 1781 [Papers of John Adams 12:36]
From Hendrik Brouwer Chs. zoon, 15 April 1782 [Papers of John Adams 12:409]
From Samuel Andrews, 12 March 1782 [Papers of John Adams 12:317]
From Samuel Andrews, 12 March 1782 [Papers of John Adams 12:318]+
From Thomas Digges, 2 April 1782 [Papers of John Adams 12:380]+
From Thomas Digges, 9 April 1782 [Papers of John Adams 12:400]+
To Jean Henri David Uhl, 9 July 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:171]+
To Robert R. Livingston, 18 August 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:247]
To Robert R. Livingston, 23 September 1782 [Papers of John Adams 13:486]
– Amer. [8 references]
– Amer. successes in [6 references]
– American [1 reference]
– American, and rights of neutrals [3 references]
– Barnard and [1 reference]
– Britain reportedly stops issuing commissions to for seizure of U.S. ships [1 reference]
– British [33 references]
– British capture of [1 reference]
– British seizure of neutral ships carrying naval stores [1 reference]
– Commissioners asked to authorize [2 references]
– Continental [6 references]
– Continental Navy affected by [2 references]
– Dutch [6 references]
– Franco-American trade affected by [1 reference]
– Franklin issues commissions for [1 reference]
– French [7 references]
– Frenchmen enlisted for American [1 reference]
– Gillon's ships as prey for [1 reference]
– JA alleged to authorize taking of Portuguese and Danish ships by [2 references]
– JA on [8 references]
– JA on operation of [1 reference]
– Spain opens ports to [1 reference]
– activities prevent growth of navy [1 reference]
– and capture of Quebec fleet [15 references]
– and recaptured vessels [3 references]
– and the Lusanna case [1 reference]
– bound by principle of free ships make free goods [3 references]
– bounties for [2 references]
– capture Dutch settlements [1 reference]
– capture Dutch sloop Chester [1 reference]
– capture of U.S. ships as ruse for Anglo-Amer. trade [1 reference]
– capture of U.S. vessel and seamen by [1 reference]
– capture portion of convoy [1 reference]
– captured [1 reference]
– commissions described [1 reference]
– congress broadens right to seize enemy ships by [1 reference]
– congressional resolves dealing with [2 references]
– cruise in European waters [1 reference]
– danger from less in winter [1 reference]
– desirability of taking prizes into Dutch ports [3 references]
– desirability of taking prizes into U.S. ports [3 references]
– development and use [2 references]
– discouraged by embargoes [2 references]
– drains away officers and enlistees [3 references]
– effect of French and Spanish naval operations on [3 references]
– effect of financial incentives on [2 references]
– effort to destroy that of Jersey and Guernsey [1 reference]
– from Jersey [1 reference]
– in English Channel [1 reference]
– in Mass. [31 references]
– in North Sea [1 reference]
– in Portuguese ports [1 reference]
– in Providence, R.I. [1 reference]
– in St. Eustatius [1 reference]
– ineffectiveness of [2 references]
– instructions to, as recognition of U.S. [1 reference]
– instructions to, on neutral shipping [1 reference]
– letters of marque for [8 references]
– losses of [3 references]
– losses of, to British [1 reference]
– mentioned [8 references]
– need to increase [1 reference]
– on Dutch coast [1 reference]
– operation aided by foreign loan [2 references]
– ordinance on legality of captures at sea [2 references]
– principles of Armed Neutrality to be observed by [2 references]
– reception of ships for, in foreign ports [5 references]
– resolution authorizing the fitting out of [5 references]
– security measures to protect [1 reference]
– seizure of neutral property on belligerent ship retaken by [2 references]
– status in Dutch ports [2 references]
– status of vessels taken after change in government [1 reference]
– success of American [1 reference]
– successes of [15 references]
– supplying officers for [1 reference]
– take Amer. prisoners [1 reference]
– take British colliers [2 references]
– “Spider Catchers” [1 reference]