270116th. (Adams Papers)
The gentlemen left us this morning for Portsmouth. The weather very cold. At home all day. Began...
27026th. (Adams Papers)
Engaged an horse, to go to Haverhill to-morrow; White went to Boston for the same purpose. Mr....
270320th. (Adams Papers)
Was part of the afternoon at Bridge’s chamber. Had tea at Little’s. Charles and Cranch, pass’d...
27046th. (Adams Papers)
Finished the 4th. Book of the Cyropaedia; I shall have no more to do with this author while I...
2705John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 6 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
I received on Saturday evening your kind favour of the day preceding, and although I was then...
270620th. (Adams Papers)
A Number of Ladies, drank tea here, and Judge Sargeant also. I went with Mr. Thaxter and my...
270710th. (Adams Papers)
We had not obtained leave to be absent from College, and were therefore obliged to be at meeting,...
270827th. (Adams Papers)
I employ’d myself in the forenoon with making some necessary preparations before my final...
270910th. (Adams Papers)
Thaw’d all day. The winter seems in some measure, to be gone; very little snow remaining on the...
271018th. (Adams Papers)
We had some more writing to do this forenoon. Mr. Parsons, went to Exeter, where the supreme...
271120th. (Adams Papers)
The whole forenoon, I was with my Cousin, down at our house, packing up, furniture, though many...
271231st. (Adams Papers)
A very warm day. Rambling all the morning; I met a couple of french officers gunning on my...
2713[July 1786] (Adams Papers)
The military company, having obtained a promise of 60 stand of arms, met immediately after...
271422d. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon I finish’d Vattel. The third book treats of War, and the fourth of Peace; much in...
271524th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting, for any of the Classes, on Fridays, for the whole, Day. I wrote some Problems out of...
271628th. (Adams Papers)
Captain Wyer, arrived a few days since from Ireland, and had caught a couple of Turtles in the...
2717[November 1786] (Adams Papers)
We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming...
271825th. (Adams Papers)
The Rev’d. Mr. True dined here: a person of a peculiar Character I am told, and from what I have...
271918th. (Adams Papers)
They were obliged to carry off Stratten this forenoon, as he could not possibly walk. I finished...
272024th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Lefevre, came out and dined with us. Mr. Jarvis offers me the carriage they...
272115th. (Adams Papers)
Thanksgiving Day, a day of feasting throughout the State. Custom (and I know not but law also)...
27228th. (Adams Papers)
I went in the evening to see Mrs. Dana; there was a large Company there, and I escaped as soon as...
272322d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw came last evening with my brother Tom, who was examined this morning for the freshman...
27248th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Randall, Mr. Short, Mr. Jarvis, Dr. Ruston, Mr. Williamos, and Mr. Bowdoin, dined with us....
272528th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. West came out to Auteuil and dined with us. After dinner I went into Paris, with him: we went...
272612th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d hard almost all day. We had a Class meeting, after Prayers for determining the matter,...
2727Thursday May 12th. 1785. (Adams Papers)
At about 9 o’clock the Cabriolet arrived, and the postillion brought me a Letter from the...
2728John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 April 1789 (Adams Papers)
I expected to have received ere this some Letters either from Braintree or Boston; But excepting...
27299th. (Adams Papers)
This day our State convention is to meet in Boston for the purpose of assenting to and ratifying,...
27302d. (Adams Papers)
We recite this week to Mr. Burr the new Tutor; but he was absent this Day. The A B Society met...