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Thursday Novr. 6th. 1783.

Thursday Novr. 6th. 1783.

This day, being Term day,1 we went, with Mr. Jennings, and saw the procession of the Lawyers, and Judges to Westminster Hall; and we saw the four Courts; the Kings Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery, and Exchequer, all sitting. Dined at M: W. Vaughan’s.

1. That is, the beginning of Michaelmas Term, one of four yearly sessions of English courts of law.

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    “Thursday Novr. 6th. 1783.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0012-0005. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 200.]