12d. (Adams Papers)
I was unwell, and obtained leave of absence from meeting. The weather was so warm, I could not do much. I only wrote a Letter to my Sister. Letter not found.
2John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
I have not written to you before, since I left you, because my Studies and European Letters have engrossed all my Time. But as you will probably soon enter this University, I wish to give you a few hints which you may improve as you please. You will consider them, not as the commands or instructions of a Preceptor, but as the advice of a friend, and a Brother. Your intimate acquaintances will...
3Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
I did not receive your last Letter by the way of new york till after the vessail had Sail’d with my Letters. I was much diverted to think the few Lines coll: smith wrote in your name should have produce’d you So long a Letter from Mr Cranch. The coll really counterfitted your hand writing very well. Betsy said as soon as she saw it, that it did not look just like aunts hand. If it was hers She...
4[Diary entry: 2 July 1786] (Washington Papers)
Sunday 2d. Mercury at 68 in the Morning 78 at Noon and 76 at Night. Clear with but little [wind], and that at South; very warm. About Noon I set out for the intended meeting (to be held to morrow) at the Seneca falls. Dined at Colo. Gilpins, where meeting with Colo. Fitzgerald we proceeded all three of us to Mr. Bryan Fairfax’s, and lodged.
5From George Washington to William Fitzhugh, Sr., 2 July 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your letter without date was handed to me last night by your servant. With one of your mares, he returns—the other I detain: the latter was among the very few which were early favoured by the Spaniard, but is not yet satisfied. The other, which went to Magnolio, my Groom seems confident is with foal, which is the reason of my sending her. A female ass which I have obtained lately, has excited...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Du Portail, 2 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris, 2 July 1786 . Acknowledges TJ’s letter of 27 June and its enclosure. He feels that the Commissioners of the Treasury have not paid sufficient attention to the fact that his own representations revolve principally on a failure to receive the arrearages of 1784; however, he will await with patience the time when the state of her finances will permit the United States to meet her...