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1774. Sunday. Octr. 30.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

1774. Sunday. Octr. 30.

My Birthday. I am 39 Years of Age.—Rode to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey, where We are to dine. Rode down to Elizabeth Town Point, and put our Carriage and all our Horses into two Ferry Boats. Sail’d or rather rowed, Six Miles to a Point on Staten Island where We stoped and went into a Tavern. Got to Hulls in New York, about 10 O Clock, at night.

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    30 October 1774

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    “1774. Sunday. Octr. 30.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0007-0032. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 2, 1771–1781, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 158.]