2114th. (Adams Papers)
The weather was extremely warm, all the forenoon. Rambled about, upon Mr. Cranch’s farm with my...
21218th. (Adams Papers)
The weather in the morning look’d stormy, and was showery at different times all day. I attended...
21325th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Mellen, preach’d here: he was a Tutor two or three years since. His forenoon discourse was...
2148th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter spent half an hour with us in the forenoon; after dinner my Brother and myself went...
21522d. (Adams Papers)
This morning I sent down a Cart with my two trunks that are going to Haverhill. I intended to go...
21622d. (Adams Papers)
My father went to Versailles. Mr. Short went with him to be presented at Court. Variable Weather:...
21713th. (Adams Papers)
Miss Nancy, My Brother and myself dined with Mr. Dodge, to day: Mr. Thaxter was there. He went...
2185th. (Adams Papers)
Dull, and low spirited, somewhat, but it did not last long. Mr. James, gave us a piece of Latin...
2197th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Marquis de la Fayettes. The Chevalier de la Luzerne dined there has been in the...
2202d. (Adams Papers)
Young Mr. Symmes lodged here last Night. This morning before breakfast My Brother Charles left...
22128th. (Adams Papers)
Dull weather. Wind Northeast. It began to rain a little after noon, and continued all the rest of...
22225. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter’s. Miss Hazen. Eve at Mr. Bartlett’s.
22318th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. McKeen of Beverley preached at Mr. Carey’s this day. I attended to hear him. His discourses...
2248th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Webster from Salisbury preached for us this day: a venerable old gentleman who has been...
22522d. (Adams Papers)
I was up before eight, and had not slept well, even the short Time I was in bed; I felt stiff and...
22628th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams gave us an astronomical lecture this afternoon. The sodality met, in the evening at...
22725th. (Adams Papers)
The town is not so much crowded this day; as it was yesterday. That Class of people which is...
22812th. (Adams Papers)
Townsend arrived in town this forenoon: I called at Mrs. Hooper’s to see him immediately after...
22928th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Shaw went over to Bradford in the afternoon, and pass’d it at Mr. Allen’s. Read Locke, upon...
23018th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preached for us the whole day: his text in the afternoon was in these words,...
2312d. (Adams Papers)
The weather was extremely warm. I amused myself part of the day in reading, and part in shooting....
23218th. (Adams Papers)
All day within; the weather uncommonly mild. Mr. Thaxter spent the Evening and supped here. Began...
2338th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Burr preach’d to us this afternoon, a pretty good Sermon. In the evening I attended the...
2345th. (Adams Papers)
I attended at the Office. Amory was there. Return’d yesterday from Salem. Townsend went to Boston...
23522d. (Adams Papers)
Fast day. Attended Mr. Hilliard the whole day; but to no great purpose: in consequence of the...
2368th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. White’s family, and Miss Sally McKinstry, drank tea here. This young Lady has been all the...
23722d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and Eliza, stopp’d here on their way to Kittery, at about half after 8. I was...
23812th. (Adams Papers)
By using so little exercice, as I have done for these 18 months; and leading a sedentary life; I...
23912th. (Adams Papers)
Went all day to hear Mr. Smith. I had never heard him before. His text for the whole day was from...
2402d. (Adams Papers)
This morning I went out with Forbes and Mason, on a gunning party. The game was very scarce, but...
2418th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Tracy’s, in Company, with Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Price, Dr. Cutting, Mr. Mores an...
2425th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the morning from Matthew XXIV 13. But he that shall endure unto the end,...
243[August 1787] (Adams Papers)
A cold north-east storm. Reading and writing all day. Wrote a letter to my mother, and one to my...
24412th. (Adams Papers)
I went down to our Office, to see if there was a Gravesande, there, but none was to be...
245[November 1787] (Adams Papers)
I attended in the morning, and in the afternoon at the setting of the supreme Court. Judge Dana,...
2462d. (Adams Papers)
Our Tutor, gave us this morning, a most extraordinary, construction of a passage in Homer. Abbot...
24727th. (Adams Papers)
Was at home all day. The Cold, has in some measure abated, but is still severe. The Ladies pass’d...
248[February 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...
24931st. (Adams Papers)
Finish’d Watts’s logic. Which I have been a long time, about, but have never look’d in it except...
25024th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard gave us an occasional Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Warland, a young Man,...
25127th. (Adams Papers)
Still the same scene fine weather, little wind. At about noon, we spoke to an English brig,...
25214th. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston, in order to get some books which were sent by Callahan; but I could not get them:...
2538. (Adams Papers)
Went over to Hingham.
25425th. (Adams Papers)
Leonard White came from Haverhill again yesterday and called to see me this morning. He informed...
2559th. (Adams Papers)
The air was so effectually cleared by the breaking up of the storms which occupied the...
25615th. (Adams Papers)
We indulged ourselves this morning till almost twelve o’clock before we rose. I called at the...
25712. (Adams Papers)
At home all day. But dull somewhat. Rode.
2585th. (Adams Papers)
I pass’d the evening with Thompson and Putnam at Mr. Bradbury’s. Frank came from Boston this...
2592. (Adams Papers)
General Knox dined with us. P. M. After “P.M.” follows in shorthand “no meeting.”
26026th. (Adams Papers)
Office business. Takes from reading. Dined with Mr. Parsons.