201[July 1796] (Adams Papers)
Yesterday mow’d all the Grass on Stony field Hill. To day ploughing for Hilling among the Corn...
202July 31. 1796. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
A fine N.W. Wind, pure Air, clear Sky, and bright Sun. Reading the second Volume of Petrarchs...
203July 30th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
All hands carting Earth and making Compost, i.e. 4 hands Billings, Bass and the two Lathrops....
204To John Adams from James Sullivan, 30 July 1796 (Adams Papers)
Upon contemplating the subject of settleing the eastern boundary of the untied States, and...
205To John Adams from François D’Ivernois, 30 July 1796 (Adams Papers)
Je ne sais si vous aurez reçu de moi un pacquet que je remis il y a quelques mois à un Français...
206July 29. 1796. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Hot after Thunder, Lightening and an Hours Rain. The two Lathrops threshing. Billing and Bass...
207July 28. 1796. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Billings and Sullivan are gone to the Beech for a Load of Seaweed to put into their Hill of...
208July 27. 1796 Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Billings and Sullivan making and liming an heap of Manure. They compounded it, of Earth carted in...
209July 26. 1796. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Cloudy and begins to rain, the Wind at N.E. The Men gone up the Hill to rake the Barley. In...
210July 25. 1796. Monday. (Adams Papers)
Dull Weather but no Rain. The Lathrops with the Team are going to the Swamp on Penns Hill for a...
211July 24. 1796. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
We are to have for a Preacher a Mr. Whitcomb. Billings is still cool and steady. In the 1st. Vol....
212July 23. 1796. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Rode down to the Barley and Black grass at the Beach. The Barley is better than I hoped. The...
213July 22. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Billings sober and steady, persevering in his declaration that he will not drink, these 12...
214July 21. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Sullivan Lathrop and Bass carting earth into the Yard from the Ground which is to be thrown into...
215To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 21 July 1796 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of May 19th has lately been transmitted to me from England, and relieved me from some...
216July 20. 1796. Wednesday. Commencement. (Adams Papers)
Rode to the Swamp, at the Top of Penns hill. Trask is mowing the Bushes, cutting the Trees, and...
217July 19. 1796. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
A plentifull Shower of Rain with Thunder and Lightning this Morning. Took a Tea spoonful of Bark...
218July 18 1796. Monday. (Adams Papers)
Billings is at hoe. The Kitchen Folk say he is steady. A terrible drunken distracted Week he has...
219July 17. 1796 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Warm but clear. Billings at home but running down Cellar for Cyder. We are to have a Mr....
220July 16. 1796 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Paid off Puffer, for Eleven Days Works at a Dollar a Day. Trask and Stetson at work in the...
221July 15. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
A very heavy Shower of Rain. Thunder in the morning. Billings still unable to work—goes over...
222July 14. 1796 Thursday. (Adams Papers)
The Wind N.W. after a fine rain. A firing of Cannon this morning in the Harbour. I arose by four...
223July 13. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
My new Barn is to be raised this Afternoon, a Rod or two from my Fathers which he built when I...
224Quincy July 12. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday mow’d all the Grass on Stony field Hill. To day ploughing for Hilling among the Corn...
225To John Adams from Benjamin Thompson, 12 July 1796 (Adams Papers)
Desirous of contributing efficaciously to the advancement of a Branch of Science which has long...
226To John Adams from John Rutherford, 28 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
I put the outline of the report on manures which you were so kind as to send me into the hands of...
227To John Adams from Archibald Maclaine, 26 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
I seize with avidity the opportunity presented to me by the Bearer of recalling to your...
228Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 24 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
Upon my file of unacknowledged letters, I find three from you, the last of which is of the 7 th:...
229To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 24 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
A few days ago, I received your favour of April 5. which acknowledges the receipt of three little...
230[June 1796] (Adams Papers)
Sullivan Lathrop came for 6 Mo nths at 12 1/2. Here begins a brief revival of JA ’s Diary,...
231June 22. (Adams Papers)
Thomas Lathrop came for 6 Mo nths at 9.
232June 20 [1796]. (Adams Papers)
Sullivan Lathrop came for 6 Mo nths at 12 1/2. Here begins a brief revival of JA ’s Diary,...
233To John Adams from Barnabas Bidwell, 20 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
In behalf of the Connecticut Susquehannah Company, I take the liberty of addressing to you an...
234To John Adams from Tench Coxe, 14 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inclose to you a translation of a letter lately received by me from General...
235John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 9 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
It was no longer ago than Yesterday that I received your kind Letter of the 14. of December last,...
236To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
At length I have been released from a situation, equally remote from all public utility and all...
237Charles Adams to John Adams, 4 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
The canvass of the votes for Senators for this district and for Members of Assembly to Represent...
238From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
The Reverend Dr Belknap and Dr Morse being upon a Journey into your Neighbourhood I have been...
239From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 1 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
According to an intimation I gave you at Philadelphia before I left it, I had now the Honour to...
240To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 31 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a report on the memorial and petition of William Somarfall & son &...
241From Hannibal Dobbyn to John Adams, 28 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
The Memorial of Hannibal William Dobbyn humbly sheweth That Memorialist came to America in the...
242To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 27 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
I have to regret that I was out of Town the Morning that you called upon me. At the Time Doctor...
243From William Blount to John Adams, 23 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
We have the Honor to inform you that we are within the walls of your Chamber, ready to produce,...
244From William Cocke to John Adams, 21 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
Having had the honour of being legally and Constitutionally Elected to Represent the State of...
245John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 19 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
After a tedious Session of Congress, rendered uncommonly disgusting by the obstinacy of a Party...
246John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 19 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time Since I have rec d any Letter from you, and the Report that you have had a...
247To John Adams from LeRay de Chaumont, 19 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
The Bearer of this is my most intimate friend Mr Robineau de Bougon & the friend of my whole...
248To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 12 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
In addition to the letters and Packets which I have already sent by the present conveyance, I now...
249To John Adams from Caleb Strong, 10 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
I arrived at this place the Evening before you left it and found when I came into the Senate that...
250To John Adams from Samuel Meredith, 9 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
My Account of receipts and expenditures in the War Department for the quarter ending the 31st....