1Saturday July 14. 1770. (Adams Papers)
Arose at 4. Got ready as soon as I could and rode out of Town a few Miles to Breakfast. Breakfasted at Lovatts in Hampton, 10 miles from Portsmouth and 12 from Newbury. Threatened with a very hot day. I hope I shall not be so overcome with Heat and Fatigue as I was Yesterday. I fully intended to have made a long Visit to Governor Wentworth, upon this Occasion. But he was unluckily gone to...
2To Benjamin Franklin from John Pownall, 14 July 1770: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Library of Congress [Whitehall, July 14, 1770. Requests Franklin’s attendance at the Board of Trade on Wednesday next, the 18th, in regard to several laws passed in Pennsylvania in 1769. ] Pownall was writing as secretary to the Board. For the meeting in question see Board of Trade Jour ., 1768–75, pp. 200–1.
3[Diary entry: 14 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
14. Rid to my Harvest People at the Mill in the forenoon & in the afternn. likewise with Mrs. W., Peggy Massey & P[atsy].
4[Diary entry: 14 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
14. Clear and Warm the Wind being Southwardly.
5[Diary entry: 14 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
14. Began my Harvest at the Mill but did not quite finish the field on the other side by the New Mill.