Julius. 1783. 14.

Je fus à Delft avec Monsr. Fitch1 et sa compagnie, qui partent pour L’Angleterre.

1. Most likely Eliphalet Fitch, a native Bostonian, reputedly very rich, who may have held a crown office in Jamaica, and whom JA described to JQA as a grandson of Dr. Thomas Boylston “and consequently your Relation” (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 3:134; JA to JQA, 12 June, LbC, Adams Papers).

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Title: Julius. 1783. 14.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 14 July 1783

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Cite as: “Julius. 1783. 14.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0007-0001. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 175.]