| 1850 - 418 páginas
...room, — "a very small one," too, or crawling up into " Tom Dawes' garret," and there l; smoking of tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other." But we do not undertake to say when and where "the child Independence" was conceived, though John Adams... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1851 - 460 páginas
...grandfather, John Adams, in relation to their meetings : "Boston, Feb. 1, 1763. — This day learned that the Caucus Club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garrett,... | |
| 1857 - 498 páginas
...orthography. It is in John Adams's Diary, under date of February, 1763, where he says : " This day learned that the caucus club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment." (Works, H. 144.) It would be well for those who have occasion... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 páginas
...my notice, is in John Adams's Diary, under date of February, 1763, where he says : This clay learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. — Worhs, Vol. II. p. 144. I '11 be a voter, and this is a big... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 páginas
...my notice, is in John Adams's Diary, under date of February, 1763, where he says : This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. — Works, Vol. II. p. 144. I 'll be a voter, and this is a"big... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1887 - 720 páginas
...meeting and proceedings of the Caucus Club of Boston. He writes, in February 1763, 'This day learnt that the Caucus Club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 páginas
...he has a moveable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from...they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts qxiestions to the vote regularly; and select-men, assessors, collectors, wardens,... | |
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 páginas
...army, the bar ; retails prosody, writes upon money, Province sloop.1 Boston. February. This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret... | |
| Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 468 páginas
...which he takes down, and the whole club meet in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot sec from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly ; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens,... | |
| 1873 - 806 páginas
...probably in the following passage in John Adams's diary, dated Boston, February, 1763 : " This day learned that the caucus club meets at certain times in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret... | |
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