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181 Adams, John March 3d. 1761. 1761-03-03 Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High...
182 Adams, John [December 1758] 1758-12-01 Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him...
183 Adams, John 15 [i.e. 16] Fryday. 1756-04-16 A Stormy Day.
184 Adams, John 30 Tuesday. 1756-03-30 A fair day. Drank Tea and spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams, with Mr. Maccarty, very Sociably.
185 Adams, John 6 Thurdsday. 1756-05-06 A cold day. Spent the Evening and supped at Mr. Putnams.
186 Adams, John July 2. 1770. 1770-07-02 Monday morning, in my Sulky before 5 o clock, Mr. Winthrop, Farnum and D. Sewall, with me on...
187 Adams, John 19 [i.e. 20] Tuesday. 1756-04-20 A lovely Day after the Storm. Drank Tea at Major Chandlers. Walked with the Coll. to his Saw-mill...
188 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Argument: Court of Vice … 1774-06-01 Leonard. Port Bill, Lex Talionis. Punishment of Boston the main Object. There is an Exception...
189 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 1764-05-07 I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever...
190 Adams, John 10 Monday. 1756-05-10 A pleasant Day.
191 Adams, John Saturday Decr. 21st. 1765. 1765-12-21 Spent the Morning in sauntering about, and chatting with one and another—The Sherriff, Mr....
192 Adams, John Monday May 26th 1760. 1760-05-26 Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. Mr. Quincy told a...
193 Adams, John 1760. Novr. 21st. Friday. 1760-11-21 This day has been spent to little Purpose. I must confine my Body, or I never shall confine my...
194 Adams, John 25. Monday. 1753-06-25 At Colledge, a very rainy, morning, at 11 o’Clock Disputed from the question assigned us last...
195 Adams, John Sept. 3d. Sunday. 1769-09-03 Heard Dr. Cooper in the forenoon, Mr. Champion of Connecticutt in the Afternoon and Mr. Pemberton...
196 Adams, John Sewall, Jonathan From John Adams to Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 1760-09-10 You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) some Expressions of my...
197 Adams, John Tuesday Aug. [5 or 12] 1766. 1766-08-05 Satt out with my Wife for Salem—dined at Boston—drank Tea at Dr. Simons Tufts’s at Medford...
198 Adams, John 1760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. 1760-11-26 Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10...
199 Adams, John 29 Fryday. 1753-06-29 At Colledge, a Clear morning. Heard the valedictory oration, pronounced, By Oliver. 2 o Clock set...
200 Adams, John Adams’ Assignment of Errors: Plymouth Superior Court … 1768-04-01 In the Case of Jane Dotey vs. Manuel Essane heard and adjudged at the Court of General Sessions...
201 Adams, John Decr. 6th. 1760. 1760-12-06 Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende...
202 Adams, John Gannett, Caleb From John Adams to the Reverend Caleb Gannett, 1 April … 1775-04-01 It is not easy for me to determine whether it be best, to carry the Cause before the Governor and...
203 Adams, John [Report on Boundaries, 1773–1774] 1774-01-01 In the Fall of the Year 1773, The General Court appointed Mr. Bowdoin and me to draw a State of...
204 Adams, John Fryday [15 February]. Evening. 1771-02-15 Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts....
205 Adams, John Warren, James From John Adams to James Warren, 9 April 1774 1774-04-09 It is a great Mortification to me, to be obliged to deny my self the Pleasure of a Visit to my...
206 Adams, John [June 1771] 1771-06-01 Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he...
207 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 September 1774 1774-09-20 I am very well yet:—write to me as often as you can, and send your Letters to the Office in...
208 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 1774-10-07 I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I...
209 Adams, John Adams’ Notes of Authorities For the Preliminary … 1770-10-24 By the Stat ute of Wm. Prisoner intituled to a Copy of the Indictment 5 days and of the Panel 2...
210 Adams, John Genealogical Note, 7 August 1773 1773-08-07 Mr Henry Adams before the year 1640, I cant Say how long before, came from Bristol in England,...
211 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Suffolk Superior Court … 1771-12-01 J. Quincy . We had done nothing but what was justifiable by the Laws of our Country. J. Whitworth...
212 Adams, John 22 Thurdsday. 1756-01-22 A fair morning. Fresh and lively Air. Drank Tea and supped at Mrs. Paine’s. Presumably Sarah...
213 Adams, John Adams’ Draft of the Information: Court of Vice … 1769-04-20 John Wentworth Esqr. Surveyor General of all and singular his Majestys Woods on the Continent of...
214 Adams, John Boston. August 10. Wednesday. 1774-08-10 The committee for the Congress took their departure from Boston, from Mr. Cushing’s house, and...
215 Adams, John 26 Monday. 1756-01-26 A sharp piercing Air. Sat out for Uxbridge, arrived 2’o clock.
216 Adams, John 3 Tuesday. 1756-02-03 Breakfasted at Gardiners. This morn the Weather clear’d away. As warm and brilliant as May. Kept...
217 Adams, John [August 1761] 1761-08-01 I am creating Enemies in every Quarter of the Town. The Clarks hate. Mother Hubbard, Thayer,...
218 Adams, John [August 1770] 1770-08-01 I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,...
219 Adams, John Wednesday. March 19th. 1766. 1766-03-19 At Home.
220 Adams, John 1773. April 7th: Wednesday. 1773-04-07 At Charlestown. What shall I write?—say?—do? Sterility, Vacuity, Barrenness of Thought, and...
221 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1774 1774-05-12 I am extreamly afflicted with the Relation your Father gave me, of the Return of your Disorder. I...
222 Adams, John Sunday April 27th. 1766. 1766-04-27 Heard Mr. Smith. In the Evening, I had a great deal of Conversation with Ezekiel Price, Yesterday...
223 Adams, John [Fragmentary Draft of a Dissertation on Canon and … 1765-02-01 This Sodality has given rise to the following Speculation of my own, which I commit to writing,...
224 Adams, John [August 1762] 1762-08-15 Reading, Thinking, Writing—have I totally renounced all three? Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur...
225 Adams, John [Shakespeare’s Characters and Figurative Language … 1758-10-01 Shakespeare, in the Character of Lady Mackbeth, and of Gertrude, the Wife of old Hamlet, and...
226 Adams, John 1772. Feby. 2d. Sunday. 1772-02-02 Have omitted now for 3 months almost to keep any “Note of Time or of its Loss.” Thomas Newcomb...
227 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 1762-10-04 By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give...
228 Adams, John Adams’ Minutes of the Trial: Suffolk Superior Court … 1773-02-25 Sewall, Attorney General. One of the highest Crimes, agravated as it was his Wife. Inquisition....
229 Adams, John 1772. Decr. 23. Wednesday. 1772-12-23 Major Martin at the Office. He is very gracious with the first Man in the Province. The Governor...
230 Adams, John 1771. Sunday, June 9th. 1771-06-09 Feel a little discomposed this Morning. Rested but poorly last night. Anxious about my...