1. The Adamses encountered Maryland lawyer William Hindman (1743–1822), a former Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786, en route to America aboard the Lucretia in May 1788. Hindman was aboard the Thomas and Sally, Capt. F. Dorset (Dorsett), sailing from London to Baltimore, when a storm struck off the coast of the Isle of Portland and brought down the ship’s mast on 18 May. The crew of the Lucretia replaced the mast and offered medical assistance. Hindman survived, and he served as a Maryland congressman from 1793 to 1799 (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 8:267, 269; Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005, Washington, D.C., 2005; rev. edn., bioguide.congress.gov. description ends ).

Gustavus Scott (1753–1800), of Prince William Co., Va., studied law at the Middle Temple. He did not receive a post in the federal judiciary, but he later served as one of the officials overseeing the construction of public buildings in Washington, D.C. (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005, Washington, D.C., 2005; rev. edn., bioguide.congress.gov. description ends ).