The sources presented here are focused specifically on the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the Jubilee of the Declaration of Independence in 1826, and the response in the press to this most “signal and impressive combination of circumstances”.

I have typed all of these by hand, from various sources of scanned newspapers online. Typos may be mine, or they may not be typos, but rather spellings correct in the era. I will write more on that aspect later, and link to it here.

Newspapers:
  1. July 11, 1826: General orders of mourning (Roger Jones, Adjutant General)
  2. July 12, 1826: Beloved while living, and revered now dead (Fenelon)
  3. July 13, 1826: Another Patriot Gone!
  4. July 13, 1826: Inscrutable are the ways of providence!
  5. July 14, 1826: Lines on the Deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (A Lady of Richmond, E.L.S.)
  6. July 15, 1826: The Venerable Carroll
  7. July 18, 1826: Hear, O Heavens! Give Ear, O Earth!
  8. August 1, 1826: When, in the Course of Providence
  9. August 8, 1826: A day most signally marked…
  10. August 25, 1826: The Lights of Truth and Unerring Experience (William T. Barry)
  11. August 31, 1826: Let our dissensions be buried in their graves (William Alexander Duer)

Elsewhere:
  1. December 31, 1826: A selection of Eulogies in Honor of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
  2. January 7, 2026: Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
  3. July 1, 2026: No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive

Of course terrorism works. It did for us. A couple of hotheads poured some British tea in the water, the British cracked down on everyone else, more people started throwing tea in the water, the British cracked down all the harder on everyone else, and eventually shooting started and the British really cracked down on everyone else and before they knew it everyone else was a terrorist and they were outnumbered. Our goal wasn’t to get the British to change by tossing some tea in the water. Our goal was to get the British to show their true colors. They did, and we won. — Thomas Jefferson’s Ghost (The Shopping Cart Graveyard)