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8th.

8th.

Dined at Mr. Tracy’s, in Company, with Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Price, Dr. Cutting, Mr. Mores an Englishman, Mr. Storer and H. Otis,1 and Mr. Hughes. There were two sharp wits present, Mr. Hughes and Dr. Cutting; their bons-mots flew about very frequently. After Dinner I went with Mr. Storer, to Mr. Gannetts for a few Minutes. Went very early to Bed.

1. Harrison Gray (Harry) Otis, who received his master’s degree from Harvard in 1786 and shortly thereafter was admitted to the Boston bar (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928-1936; 20 vols, plus index and supplements. description ends ).

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    8th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    8 April 1786

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    “8th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0001-0002-0008. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 15.]