1551[March 1788] (Adams Papers)
The weather is very severe: The month comes in like a Lion, and according to the farmer’s proverb...
155231st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons held a Justice’s Court for the trial of a trifling action of trover and conversion....
155330th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Toppan of Newtown preach’d at our meeting this day. I attended all day and was very much...
155429th. (Adams Papers)
I received two or three Letters for Little, and after finishing the day at the office, I went and...
155528th. (Adams Papers)
The weather was pleasant. Townsend rode, this day. I pass’d the evening with him: and found Miss...
155627th. (Adams Papers)
I went with Pickman, Amory Stacey and Putnam to Salisbury, to see a vessel launch’d: She stuck as...
155726th. (Adams Papers)
I took a long walk, this afternoon with Putnam, and as we came back we stop’d at Mrs. Hooper’s....
155825th. (Adams Papers)
Copies of all the actions which are to be entered at the next Court of Common Pleas were this day...
155924th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at Mr. Atkins’s Court; and appeared to the actions. Mr. Marquand who had been summoned...
156023d. (Adams Papers)
Pickman had agreed to go with me, and hear Parson Tucker preach this forenoon; but some...
156122d. (Adams Papers)
Amory and Stacey, return’d from their expedition: They got to Cape-Ann at about twelve on...
156221st. (Adams Papers)
I can read tolerably well when I am alone in the office, and make as much progress in one day, as...
156320th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
We met this evening at Thompson’s. Pickman came; but rather late in the evening. Young Sawyer was...
156419th. (Adams Papers)
The weather was dull, gloomy, and part of the day rainy. Amory invited me to dine with him and...
156518th. (Adams Papers)
I am sinking again into the same insipidity which I have so often lamented. The circumstances...
156617th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons held a court this forenoon at ten; and at the same hour I attended at Mr. Atkins’s,...
156716th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I attended at Mr. Carey’s meeting. The man that appeared in the pulpit I...
156815th. (Adams Papers)
I called this evening at Putnam’s lodgings, and pass’d an hour or two with him. He went home last...
156914th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons return’d this afternoon from Boston, where the supreme judicial Court, and the...
157013th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson, Pickman and Little, pass’d the eve at my lodgings: Townsend, was so unwell, that he...
157112th. (Adams Papers)
I Dined with Townsend at Mrs. Hooper’s. Amory went to Portsmouth on Monday, with several of his...
157211th. (Adams Papers)
Townsend and Pickman, returned, this afternoon from Salem. Townsend, has been on to Boston and to...
157310th. (Adams Papers)
Pass’d the evening and supped with Thompson at Dr. Sawyer’s. Mr. Russell was there: he came from...
15749th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Carey got out to meeting this forenoon; but he was still so weak, that the effort was too...
15758th. (Adams Papers)
I this day got through, my folio of Lord Coke, which has been hanging heavy upon me, these ten...
15767th. (Adams Papers)
The weather begins to abate of its severity; yet people cross’d the river on the ice all this...
15776th. (Adams Papers)
We met in the evening at Putnam’s chamber. I did not pass my time so agreeably as I usually do...
15785th. (Adams Papers)
I pass’d the evening with Thompson and Putnam at Mr. Bradbury’s. Frank came from Boston this...
15794th. (Adams Papers)
Doctor Kilham, went to Boston this day to attend the general court. His opposition to the federal...
15803d. (Adams Papers)
The weather continues extreme cold. The river is fast as low as this Town, and many persons have...
15812d. (Adams Papers)
We had no meeting at Parson Carey’s. I was employ’d in writing all the forenoon; but after...
1582Saturday March 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The weather is very severe: The month comes in like a Lion, and according to the farmer’s proverb...
1583[February 1788] (Adams Papers)
Pass’d a great part of the fore noon at Mr. Thaxter’s. He is now quite in the family way: he...
158429th. (Adams Papers)
A number of us spent the evening at Dr. Swett’s. I play’d on the flute, an hour or so. I have...
158528th. (Adams Papers)
The severity of the weather has been increasing, and is this night but little inferior to the...
158627th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hutchinson sailed yesterday for Ireland. The weather for several days past has been quite...
158726th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon while I was at the office I received a billet from Mr. Dalton, with an invitation...
158825th. (Adams Papers)
Pass’d the evening at Merrill’s, with Mr. Hutchinson: and had some very agreeable musical...
158924th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Carey is still very sick, and we had no divine service this day at his meeting. I again...
159023d. (Adams Papers)
When I went to the office this morning I found young Pickman of Salem there. I was acquainted...
159122d. (Adams Papers)
I attended to hear the debates in convention again, this forenoon. Mr. Langdon began by making a...
159221st. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Emery and her daughter were going to Exeter this morning in a single sleigh. Dr. Kilham and...
159320th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons went yesterday to Boston, to attend the supreme Judicial Court. This evening I past...
159419th. (Adams Papers)
Called upon Putnam after leaving the office, and passed the evening at his lodgings: I have a...
159518th. (Adams Papers)
After passing the day at the Office, I went and pass’d the evening at Mrs. Hooper’s. Townsend’s...
159617th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Carey is very sick; and consequently we had no meeting: so I staid at home; wrote a long...
159716th. (Adams Papers)
The most violent snow storm, that has appeared in the course of the winter, it began in the...
1598John Quincy Adams to Cotton Tufts, 16 February 1788 (Adams Papers)
I desired my brother Charles when he went from Haverhill, to mention, that I was again in need of...
159915th. (Adams Papers)
We indulged ourselves this morning till almost twelve o’clock before we rose. I called at the...
160014th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at the office only in the forenoon; the after part of the day being employ’d in...