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1201 Adams, John 1761. Tuesday Jany. 27th. 1761-01-27 Last Fryday I borrowed of Mr. Gridley, the second Volume of the Corpus Iuris Canonici Notis...
1202 Adams, John 1774 Septr. 10. Saturday. 1774-09-10 Attended my Duty upon the Sub Committee. Dined at home. Dr. Morgan, Dr. Cocks Cox , Mr. Spence...
1203 Adams, John 1774. Sunday. Octr. 2. 1774-10-02 Went to Christ Church and heard Mr. Coombs upon “Judge not according to the Appearance, but judge...
1204 Adams, John 24 Tuesday. 1756-02-24 A fine morning. We are told that Demosthenes transcribed the history of Thucidides 8 times, in...
1205 Adams, John [January 1756] 1756-01-14 At Worcester. A very rainy Day. Kept school in the forenoon; but not in the afternoon, because of...
1206 Adams, John 14 Sunday. 1756-03-14 Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day upon Abrahams Faith, in offering up Isaac. Spent the Evening, very...
1207 Adams, John 4 Sunday. 1756-04-04 Heard Mr. Davis of Holden all Day. Spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams.
1208 Adams, John [Winthrop’s Lectures on Experimental Philosophy.] April … 1754-04-01 Mr. Winthrop began a series of Experimental Phylosophy , and in the 1st place he explained to us...
1209 Adams, John Adams’ “Abstract of the Argument”: Ca. April 1761 1761-04-01 On the second Tuesday of the Court’s sitting, appointed by the rule of the Court for argument of...
1210 Adams, John [August 1765] 1765-08-01 Hannah Place vs. Atwood. Introduced into the family at 13. Constant Understanding that she should...
1211 Adams, John Septr. 10th. 1761. 1761-09-10 Spent Evening at Zabs with the Parson. Wibirt . I have seen a Picture of Oliver Cromwell, with...
1212 Adams, John [June 1765] 1765-06-07 £ s d June 7th. 1765. Paid at Goodwins for Dinners 0: 10: 0 Paid at Lovejoys for Lodging Suppers...
1213 Adams, John 13 Wednesday. 1753-06-13 At Colledge, a Cloudy morning, about 10 o’Clock the Sun shone out very warm, but about 12 the...
1214 Adams, John Adams’ List of Questions Presented: Suffolk Court of … 1768-11-01 A great Number of Questions arise upon this Petition. 1 st. Whether a Justice of the Peace, can...
1215 Adams, John [3] Novr. 1760. Monday. 1760-11-03 Dana says the Administrator ought not to regard the Disgrace or Trouble or Expence of a...
1216 Adams, John 17 Sunday. 1753-06-17 At Colledge, sunshiny-morning, heard Mr. Appleton expound those words in 1. Cor. 12 Chap, from 7,...
1217 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Special Court of … 1769-06-01 Mr. Fitch. About the Time of the Blow—the 2d Pistol was fired. Commission from Commissioners....
1218 Adams, John [Braintree Lawyer, 1759–1761] 1759-01-01 The next Year after I was sworn, was the memorable Year 1759 when the Conquest of Canada was...
1219 Adams, John New Pleadings: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, August … 1772-08-01 And the Said William Crafts, Giles Brewer, Benjamin Richardson and Asa Stodder, come and defend...
1220 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Middlesex Inferior Court … 1768-03-01 Sewall . Dougherty at Newfoundland, 3 Years, Little breakfasted dined suppd and lodgd there....
1221 Adams, John Tuesday [24 October]. 1758-10-24 Rode to Boston. Arrived about 1/2 after 10. Went into the Court House, and sett down by Mr. Paine...
1222 Adams, John [Spring 1759.] 1759-04-01 The Road is walled on each side with a Grove of Trees. The stillness, silence, and the uniformity...
1223 Adams, John [Marriage and Law Practice, 1764-1765] 1764-01-01 In the Winter of 1764 the Small Pox prevailing in Boston, I went with my Brother into Town and...
1224 Adams, John Tuesday [31 October]. 1758-10-31 Set down, and recollected my self, and read a little in Van Muyden, a little in naval Trade and...
1225 Adams, John Tuesday. December 3 or 4 [i.e. 5?]. 1758-12-05 Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him...
1226 Adams, John Wednesday Jany. 8th. 1766. 1766-01-08 At Home. Wrote &c.
1227 Adams, John 28 [i.e. 29] Saturday. 1756-05-29 Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams.—What is the proper Business of Mankind in this Life? We come into the...
1228 Adams, John January the 14th. 1756. 1756-01-14 At Worcester. A very rainy Day. Kept school in the forenoon; but not in the afternoon, because of...
1229 Adams, John [October 1760] 1760-10-07 Waited on Mr. Gridley for his Opinion of my Declaration Lambard v. Tirrell, and for his Advice,...
1230 Adams, John [October 1769] 1769-10-19 Last night I spent the Evening, at the House of John Williams Esqr. the Revenue officer, in...
1231 Adams, John Saturday Jany. 11th. 1766. 1766-01-11 A Rain. In one particular, I must confess the Americans have not acted with their usual Acuteness...
1232 Adams, John 27 Tuesday. 1756-07-27 Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines, in Virgil. Wrote a little in Bolingbroke at noon and a little...
1233 Adams, John Sunday [2 March]. 1766-03-02 Heard Mr. Wibirt.
1234 Adams, John Tuesday. June 17th. 1760-06-17 Arose before the sun again. This is the last day. What, and who to day? Ebenezer Hayden was...
1235 Adams, John 31 Saturday. 1756-07-31 A rainy forenoon. Dined at Mr. Paines. A fair after noon . The Nature and Essence of the material...
1236 Adams, John Committee Report on Naming a Day of Prayer and … 1770-10-17 17 October 1770. MS not found. Draft prepared by a committee appointed 16 October composed of JA...
1237 Adams, John July 6th. Sunday. 1760-07-06 Heard Mr. Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard.
1238 Adams, John Adams’ Diary Notes on the Right of Juries: 1771. Feby. … 1771-02-12 At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be...
1239 Adams, John 3 Tuesday. 1756-08-03 Dind at the Colonels. Lodged at Put nam’s .
1240 Adams, John An Act for the Limitation of Personal Actions, 20 … 1770-11-20 20 November 1770. MS , engrossed copy, signed by Hutchinson ( M-Ar ). Printed: Mass., Province...
1241 Adams, John Decr. 31st. 1766. 1766-12-31 “Whatever tends to create in the Minds of the People, a Contempt of the Persons of those who hold...