“This Tea Is Too Cheap!” #1 🫖 (Boston Tea Party / 1767-1773)

Hmmm, now you have me questing for more sources… Pauline Maier said:

“Abigail read widely but spoke like a Yankee: she said ”Canady” for Canada, ”set” for sit, ”aya” for yes. So did John, though McCullough doesn’t say so. In the 1850’s, the first editor of Adams’s writings, his grandson Charles Francis Adams, carefully corrected his language, excising expressions like ”he eat strawberries” or ”she ain’t obliged” in an effort to fit John Adams into a heroic mode…”

Let me know if you ever come across a John Adams text w/ an original “Aya” in it!