11774. Sunday. Sept. 25. (Adams Papers)
Went in the Evening to Quaker Meeting and afterwards went to Supper at Stephen Collins’s.
2John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I would not loose the Opportunity of writing to you—tho I must be short. Tedious, indeed is our Business.—Slow, as Snails. I have not been used to such Ways. We sit only before Dinner. We dine at four O Clock. We are crowded with a Levee in the Evening. Fifty Gentlemen meeting together, all Strangers, are not acquainted with Each others Language, Ideas, Views, Designs. They are therefore...
3[Diary entry: 25 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. Went to the Quaker meeting in the Forenoon & St. Peters in the Afternoon. Dind at my lodgings. quaker meeting : It cannot be determined which Quaker meetinghouse GW attended. According to Toner, it was probably the meetinghouse at Second and High streets (Toner Transcripts, DLC ). St. Peter’s, an Anglican church located at Third and Pine streets, was completed in 1761. From 1762 to 1775...
4[Diary entry: 25 September 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. Very pleasant and somewhat [warmer], there being no Wind.
5From George Washington to Joseph Chew, 25 September 1774 (Washington Papers)
It would have given me sincere pleasure to have serv’d you in your request of March the 10th (which by the by did not come to my hands till sometime late in May; after Colo. Pendleton, at the desire of Mr Madison, had made an unsuccessful application to Lord Dunmore for the Land you claim under your Brother Colby; whose Merits well entitles his heir to the Kings bounty) I say to have serv’d...