1[January 1771] (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G....
21771. Jany. 10. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G....
3[February 1771] (Adams Papers)
Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for...
4Fryday Feby. 7 [i.e. 8?]. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for...
51771. Feby. 12. (Adams Papers)
At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be...
6Thurdsday Feby. 14. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Hancocks with the Members, Warren, Church, Cooper, &c. and Mr. Harrison and spent...
7Fryday [15 February]. Evening. (Adams Papers)
Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts....
8Saturday. Feby. 16. (Adams Papers)
Have had a pensive day. The next entry in the present Diary booklet (D/JA/16), curiously, is...
9[April 1771] (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and...
101771. April 16. Tuesday Evening. (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and...
111771. Feb. [i.e. April] 18. Thursday. Fastday. (Adams Papers)
Tuesday I staid at my Office in Town, Yesterday went up to Cambridge. Returned at Night to...
12Saturday [20 April]. (Adams Papers)
Fryday morning by 9 o Clock, arrived at my Office in Boston, and this Afternoon returned to...
13Sunday [21 April]. (Adams Papers)
Last night went up to Braintree, and this Evening down to Boston, call’d at S. Adams’s and found...
14Monday [22 April]. (Adams Papers)
In the Morning mounted for Worcester, with Pierpoint, Caleb and Rob. Davis, Josa. Quincy, &c....
15Thurdsday. April 25th. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Dined last Monday at Brighams in Southborough, and lodged at Furnasses in Shrewsbury. Next day...
16[May 1771] (Adams Papers)
Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to...
17May 1st. 1771. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to...
18May 2. 1771. (Adams Papers)
The Tryumphs, and Exultations of Ezekl. Goldthwait and his pert Pupil Price, at the Election of a...
19May 3d. 1771. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Last Evening I went in to take a Pipe with Brother Cranch, and there I found Zeb. Adams. He told...
20May 9. 1771. (Adams Papers)
From Saturday to Wednesday Morning I staid at Braintree, and rode, walked, rambled and roamed....
21Tuesday. May. 14. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday came to Town with my Wife. A fine Rain all night. Captn. Bradford sent his Compliments,...
22Wednesday May 15th. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Argued before the Sessions the Question whether the Court had Authority by Law to make an...
23Wednesday. May 22. 1771. (Adams Papers)
At Plymouth. Put up at Wetheralls, near the County House—lodged with Mr. Angier, where we had a...
241771. Wednesday 29. May. (Adams Papers)
General Election. Went to Boston and to Cambridge, and returned to Boston at night.
251771. Thurdsday May 30. (Adams Papers)
Mounted my Horse for Connecticutt. Stopped, and chatted an Hour with Tom Crafts who is very low...
261771. May 31. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
A fair, soft, pleasant Morning.—I believe the Peasants round about the Town of Boston are as...
27[June 1771] (Adams Papers)
Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he...
281771. Saturday June 1st. (Adams Papers)
Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he...
291771. Sunday June 2d. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wheeler, late Minister of Harvard, at Worcester all day. Here I saw many Faces much...
301771. Monday June 3d. (Adams Papers)
A fine Morning—a soft, sweet S.W. Wind. Oated in Spencer—turned my Horse to grass at Wolcotts in...