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August 1. 1796. Monday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

August 1. 1796. Monday.

Hands all gone to finish our Equinoctial Line of Wall as Billings calls it.—Hot, sultry, muggy last night Muskitoes numerous and busy, poor sleep, up and down all night.

Have my Brothers Oxen to day.

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    August 1. 1796. Monday.
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    Adams, John
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    1 August 1796

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    “August 1. 1796. Monday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0013-0003-0001. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 237.]