I may have mentioned this Founders site before, which contains the digitized correspondence of the Founding Fathers (and the Adams family). What's neat is you can do a rapid search for terms. Here's a list of terms and their occurrences. (I discovered that searching on lower case picks up upper case, but not vice versa.) Who would have thought that "electricity" would be mentioned more often than the "slave trade"?
Citizen 11,287
King 10,968
Colonies 5,581
Continent 3,334
British 17,460
United States 25,153
United Colonies 774
Constitution 7,731
Rights 16,033
Liberties 17,463
Society 17,242
Individual 6,188
Bear arms 174
Corn 2,919
Wheat 3,167
Potatoes 515
Tomato 5
Cabbage 157
Oats 806
Apples 425
Maple sugar 79
Horse 7,517
Oxen 452
Sheep 1,033
Cattle 1,782
Cow 496
Hen 151
Chicken 69
Compost 30
Marl 19
Lime 141
Manure 342
Rum 1,025
Whiskey 400
Wine 2,394
Cider 78
Ale 85
Beer 275
Gardening 1,842
Lawyer 2,673
Doctor 3,623
Farmer 2,516
Merchant 10,604
Commerce 7,537
Industry 2,392 (mostly working hard)
Teacher 485
Slave 2,953
Slavery 804
Slave trade 177
Electricity 381
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