260127. (Adams Papers)
Splendid parade. Much company. Several regiments of troops from Boston were reviewed by Gov....
260231st. (Adams Papers)
At about 10 in the morning I cross’d the river with Mr. B. Jarvis and found his brother Charles...
260317. (Adams Papers)
Went to Milton. Chilly weather looks like snow.
2604[19th.] (Adams Papers)
Thursday went into Paris shopping.
260531. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. returned. Company at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Storer. C. Storer &c.
26067. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Cranch’s after meeting. Mr. C. quite unwell.
2607Wednesday September 1st. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Dr. Franklin’s.
260824th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at Mr. Atkins’s Court; and appeared to the actions. Mr. Marquand who had been summoned...
260921. (Adams Papers)
Letter from Mamma. Hartford. Fed. Senators. Probably AA to JA , 16 Nov. ( Adams Papers ). In this...
261014th. (Adams Papers)
I met with several impediments in the morning so that it was eleven o’clock before I cross’d the...
261111. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Tufts. Not very bright. Dr. Swett’s.
26124th. (Adams Papers)
I heard Mr. Andrews preach, his sermons were both very short; but better I think than those he...
26137th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at Mr. Carey’s meeting, all day. In the forenoon he was quite severe upon all persons...
261424th. (Adams Papers)
Miss Ellery, went home this morning, after breakfast. Miss Jones, rather unsociable; her spirits...
261514th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Wigglesworth gave us this morning a private lecture, and Mr. Williams had a public one, in...
261611th. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon I took a ride with Dr. Kilham, as far as Newtown to see Mr. Dalton, but neither he...
261714th. (Adams Papers)
I was up late last Night, to finish the fourth book of Horace’s Odes; and found my Eyes, this...
26184th. (Adams Papers)
Was absent from meeting all day. Read a Sermon, from Blair, in the forenoon, upon the duties of...
2619[Titlepage] (Adams Papers)
Titlepage of D/JQA/12, the third of three leather-bound blank books that JQA presumably purchased...
26204th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Osgood’s in a large Company. 16 persons, at table. Mr. Larieu, a frenchman, and Mr....
262125th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I went to Weymouth, to return Dr. Tufts’s horse. Dined at the Doctor’s, and...
262216th. (Adams Papers)
I took a walk this morning as far as Dr. Tucker’s meeting house; but it was to little purpose,...
262318th. (Adams Papers)
Went with Charles Storer, and heard, the debates in the House of Representatives; and afterwards,...
262430th. (Adams Papers)
Attended the meeting forenoon and afternoon; in the morning Cousin Betsey came, here, and spent...
262529th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d in the fore part of the day but cleared up in the afternoon: I went with my gun down upon...
2626[June 1786] (Adams Papers)
We had this forenoon a Lecture from Mr. Williams. Upon the reflection and the refraction of...
262719th. (Adams Papers)
The whole day at my studies as usual. In the afternoon I read in Watt’s Logic, as my Saturday...
262820th. (Adams Papers)
I expected this morning when I waked up, to hear the winds whistle and the tempests roar: but all...
262926th. (Adams Papers)
At about 6 this morning we set out I on horseback, Charles and Tom in a Sulkey; we got to...
26309th. (Adams Papers)
The air is very temperate, in Comparison to that of yesterday. The river, was froze over in such...
263123d. (Adams Papers)
The weather has look’d snowy, for several days past, but has remained, in Statu quo, till this...
263216th. (Adams Papers)
Charles came to Cambridge last Monday in order to move into our new Chamber. My Cousin and myself...
263330th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw preach’d in the forenoon from Proverbs I. 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase...
263422d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. received in the morning a Card from Dr. Franklin informing him that a person who came in...
263513th. (Adams Papers)
Went in the afternoon, with an Intention to visit Mr. Soughton, but stopping in at Mr. White’s,...
26366th. (Adams Papers)
This day the annual Dudleian Lecture was preach’d by Mr. Symmes of Andover; the subject was the...
263720th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Deane, of Falmouth preach’d here this day, in the forenoon from Matthew. XI. 29. Take my yoke...
26386th. (Adams Papers)
After dinner the Ladies went into Paris: I left them at the Place de Louis 15. and went to Mr....
263926th. (Adams Papers)
I went in the morning to the Sweedish Ambassador’s Hôtel to go with Mr. d’Asp, and see the Abbé...
264010th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Porter the Minister of Roxbury, preach’d here; he is a pretty good Speaker. His discourse in...
264110th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A: went to Versailles, to take leave, of the Court. Mr. Carnes came out. Was all day...
26427th. (Adams Papers)
In the beginning of the evening I wrote a Letter to W. Cranch requesting of him an explanation,...
264311th. (Adams Papers)
From the office this afternoon I went with Townsend to his lodgings, and there past a couple of...
264429th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at meeting and heard Mr. Wibird. The weather was rather dull and somewhat sultry. I am...
264514. (Adams Papers)
Fete de S: Cloud. Diné entre là et Auteuil. M: T——r parti. An annual festival held on the grounds...
2646John 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...
2647Friday February 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Pass’d a great part of the fore noon at Mr. Thaxter’s. He is now quite in the family way: he...
264819th. (Adams Papers)
I was considerably fatigued by my jaunt of yesterday, but made out however to read something, in...
2649John Quincy Adams to Cotton Tufts, 16 February 1788 (Adams Papers)
I desired my brother Charles when he went from Haverhill, to mention, that I was again in need of...
265024. (Adams Papers)
Mme. Ridley accouchée. Ann Richardson, whom Matthew Ridley married in England in 1775, gave birth...