Friday September the 1st 1780.

To day Pappa came here and brought me a letter from Mr. Thaxter.1 Pappa Says that the news of the English East and west India fleet is confirmed.

As I shall have but very few things to put down I shall keep a Journal only the days when there will be something Extraodinary.

1. Probably that of 21 Aug. (Adams Family Correspondence, description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963- . description ends 3:399–400).

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Title: Friday September the 1st 1780.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1 September 1780

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Cite as: “Friday September the 1st 1780.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0002-0005-0001. [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, pp. 64–65.]