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8th.

8th.

I past the greater part of the day in gunning,1 with my brothers. The weather was as it has been for several days past extremely warm; and the fruits of the earth at present greatly require heat.

1. “Shooting robins” (D/JQA/13, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 16).

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    8th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
    Date
    8 July 1788

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    “8th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0003-0007-0008. [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. 426.]