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.

July:
  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!

August:
  1. August 1, 1826: In the Course of Providence
  2. August 8, 1826: A day most signally marked…
  3. August 19, 1826: A joy which feeble nature could not sustain (Medicus)
  4. August 19, 1826: Wounds on the hydra of tyranny (Pierre Derbigny)
  5. August 21, 1826: Every manly and virtuous resolution (John Sergeant)
  6. August 25, 1826: The Lights of Truth and Unerring Experience (William T. Barry)
  7. August 28, 1826: The heavens beam with new light (Daniel Webster)
  8. August 28, 1826: They are now beginning to live (Edward Everett)
  9. August 29, 1826: Passages of the happiest eloquence (Daniel Webster)
  10. August 30, 1826: Jefferson to Adams, on the death of Abigail (Thomas Jefferson and Joseph E. Sprague)
  11. August 31, 1826: Let our dissensions be buried in their graves (William Alexander Duer)

September:
  1. September 1, 1826: The soul’s dark cottage (Timoleon)
  2. September 8, 1826: Their lives were the gifts of Providence (Daniel Webster)
  3. September 20, 1826: What made these men cannot die (Edward Everett)
  4. September 22, 1826: The closing of the year (Peleg Sprague)
  5. September 23, 1826: A day now triumphant and sacred (Edward Everett)

Elsewhere:
  1. December 31, 1826: A selection of Eulogies in Honor of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
  2. May 1, 1850: Orations and Speeches (Edward Everett)
  3. January 7, 2026: Padgett Sunday Supper Club Sestercentennial Cookery
  4. July 1, 2026: No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive

What is our duty? To understand, and to appreciate the value of these signal blessings, and, with all our might and strength to endeavor to perpetuate them. To take care that the great sources from which they flow be not obstructed by selfish passion, nor polluted by lawless ambition, nor destroyed by intemperate violence. To rise to the full perception of the great truth, ‘that Governments are instituted among men to secure human rights, deriving their authority from the consent of the governed,’ and that, with a knowledge of our own rights, must be united the same just regard for the rights of others, and pure affection for our country, which dwelt in the hearts of the Fathers of the Revolution. — John Sergeant (Charleston Courier)