Index: Papers of John Adams, Volume 17, A
- AA
- AA2
- Abdallah, Sidi Muhammad ibn, Sultan of Morocco
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Académie royale de peinture et sculpture
- Active (merchant ship)
- Adams, Abigail, 2d (Nabby, Amelia, 1765–1813, daughter of AA and JA, later wife of WSS, designated as AA2 in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Abigail Smith (1744–1818, wife of JA, designated as AA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Charles (1770–1800, son of AA and JA, designated as CA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Charles Francis (1807–1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Elizabeth Welles (wife of Samuel)
- Adams, John (1735–1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848, son of AA and JA, designated as JQA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams, Peter Boylston (1738–1823, brother of JA)
- Adams, Samuel (1722–1803, pres. of Mass. senate, 2d cousin of JA)
- Adams, Susanna Boylston
- Adams, Thomas (Boston printer)
- Adams, Thomas Boylston (1772–1832, son of AA and JA, designated as TBA in The Adams Papers)
- Adams Papers
- Admiralties, Dutch
- Admiralty (Brit.)
- Admiralty court (Continental)
- Affaires de l’Angleterre et de l’Amérique
- Africa
- Agriculture
- Ailesbury, Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of (lord chamberlain to Charlotte)
- Algiers
- Alicante, Spain
- Allaire, Peter (N.Y. merchant and Brit. spy)
- Allen, James
- Allen, Jeremiah (of Boston)
- Alliance (Continental frigate)
- Almeida Beja e Noronha, João Theotonio de (Portuguese envoy to the Netherlands)
- Alum
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Herald (Boston)
- American Intercourse Bill (1783)
- American Loyalist Claims Commission
- American Manifest Act (1783)
- American Museum (Phila.)
- American Revolution
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Anglo-American Armistice Declaration of 1783
- Anglo-American Definitive Peace Treaty
- Anglo-American Preliminary Peace Treaty
- Anglo-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, 1785 draft
- Annapolis, Md.
- Anne, Queen of England
- Anstey, John (Brit. lawyer)
- Appleton, Dr. Nathaniel (secy. for the Mass. Medical Society)
- Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Conde de (Spanish ambassador to France)
- Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila, Spain
- Ariel (Brit. sloop-of-war)
- Aristocracy
- Aristotle
- Arnold, Benedict
- Arnold, Margaret Shippen (wife of Benedict)
- Arnoux, Abbé (French cleric)
- Articles of Confederation
- Artists
- Asia
- Asquith, Lister (shipowner)
- Atkinson, Elizabeth Storer (wife of John)
- Atkinson, John (London merchant)
- Atlantic Ocean
- Audierne, Jacques
- Augusta, Princess (daughter of George III)
- Austria
- Austrian Netherlands
- Auteuil, France
- Avaux, Jean Antoine de Mesme, Comte d’ (seventeenth-century French ambassador to the Netherlands)
- Avery, James (Mass. excise officer)
- Azores