References

John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 10 November 1782 [Adams Family Correspondence 5:35]+

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 21 November 1786 [Adams Family Correspondence 7:392]

To the President of Congress, 7 February 1781 [Papers of John Adams 11:120]

To the President of Congress, 7 February 1781 [Papers of John Adams 11:121]+

To Edmund Jenings, 11 February 1781 [Papers of John Adams 11:141]

To Edmund Jenings, 11 February 1781 [Papers of John Adams 11:142]+

Subentries

– Amer. prisoners serve in fleet of [1 reference]

– Dana on operations of Franco-Spanish fleet against [1 reference]

– Gibraltar relieved by [3 references]

– Howe peace commission [2 references]

– JA appraises naval situation of [2 references]

– JA on [2 references]

– JA on personality and character of [2 references]

– Paine's American Crisis, No. II, addressed to [1 reference]

– Washington refuses incorrectly addressed letter from [2 references]

– and Howe peace commission [1 reference]

– and Molesworth plot [2 references]

– and Staten Island conference [8 references]

– and arrival of French fleet [1 reference]

– and conference with congressional members [7 references]

– and defense of N.Y. [1 reference]

– and exchange of prisoners of war [1 reference]

– and loyalists [1 reference]

– and parliamentary inquiry into conduct of the war [4 references]

– and prospect of winter quarters at Boston [1 reference]

– arrival in America [4 references]

– attitude toward Amer. Revolution [1 reference]

– compared with Hutchinson [1 reference]

– conciliation proposals delivered to Congress by Sullivan [4 references]

– conciliatory mission in 1776 [8 references]

– conciliatory proposals delivered to Congress by Sullivan [1 reference]

– correspondence with Washington [2 references]

– evacuation of Boston satirized [1 reference]

– expected battle with Estaing [2 references]

– fleet of [16 references]

– fleet of compared with Spanish at Gibraltar [2 references]

– indecisive action with Estaing off R.I. [6 references]

– issues broadside on reconciliation [1 reference]

– letter to Washington refused [1 reference]

– letter to William Franklin [1 reference]

– letters to British commissioners [1 reference]

– member of Carlisle Commission [1 reference]

– mentioned [20 references]

– mezzotint of [2 references]

– negotiates over Yankee Hero [1 reference]

– offers pardons [2 references]

– personality and character [1 reference]

– plans with King against America [1 reference]

– possible interception of Dutch fleet by [1 reference]

– protection of Baltic trade by [1 reference]

– returns to England [2 references]

– rumors that he is “dead, sick, or gone to England” [1 reference]

– satirized [4 references]

– sends captured John Sullivan on mission to congress [2 references]

– strength of fleet combined with Byron's [2 references]

– takes possession of Staten Island [1 reference]

– threatens Va. shore [1 reference]