1Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 (Adams Papers)
You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure. Whether this was designed for a complement, (a commodity I acknowledg that you very seldom deal in) or as a real truth, you best know. Yet if I was to judge of a certain persons Heart, by what upon the like occasion passess through a cabinet of my own, I should be apt to suspect it as a truth. And why...
2[Diary entry: 12 September 1763] (Washington Papers)
12. Began to sow Do. at Doag Run. Finished sowing Do. at Muddy hole 25 ⟨Bls.⟩