69124. (Adams Papers)
Very warm; rainy, disagreeable weather.
69217th. (Adams Papers)
Fast day. In the forenoon I remained at home, and spent my time in writing and reading. In the...
69314. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Ware. Preach’d admirably. D. Atkins.
69431st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons held a Justice’s Court for the trial of a trifling action of trover and conversion....
6957th. (Adams Papers)
The weather was very fine; I took a long walk in the evening with Thompson and Putnam. Thompson...
69621st. (Adams Papers)
We were again confined all day to the house, by the badness of the weather. Mr. Cranch however...
69727th. (Adams Papers)
Fay was here this morning, and Freeman return’d this day from his Tour to visit his friends. Part...
698John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 25 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
This is the eighth day it has rained and stormed without intermission, the weather is worse than...
69911th. (Adams Papers)
I attended meeting to hear Parson Barnard of Salem. He gave us two very excellent Sermons. And...
70017th. (Adams Papers)
Was at Kendall’s chamber after dinner; and likewise drank tea there. At home all the evening...
70114th. (Adams Papers)
I wrote two long letters this day. One to J. Forbes, and the other to W. Cranch. Went with Putnam...
702Sunday June 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Allen preached for us this day; and I attended to hear him. His Sermons are judicious and...
70331st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Harris arrived this afternoon from Springfield, but did not bring any further accounts of...
70417th. (Adams Papers)
An extreme cold day. I regretted much, not having my thermometer with me, to see the Proportion,...
7057th. (Adams Papers)
At about 11, in the morning I set off, with Foster and White, for Haverhill. At half past one, we...
70621st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams gave us a public lecture this afternoon, containing, an account of the different...
7077th. (Adams Papers)
Drank tea, and spent the evening at Mr. Payson’s. His lady, who has had two daughters by a...
70821st. (Adams Papers)
Finished the Epodes of Horace, and the third book of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. There is no poem of...
70911th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting all day. Mr. Hilliard preach’d; but not very much to the purpose: what with the...
71028th. (Adams Papers)
Rode out in the morning with Mrs. Cranch. It rain’d hard all the afternoon—chilly north-east...
71111th. (Adams Papers)
Eliza spent the day at Mr. White’s; went down and drank tea there, with Mr. Thaxter, who was here...
712Sunday April 1st. 1787. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting the whole day, to hear Mr. Hilliard; and had moreover the supreme felicity of...
71319th. (Adams Papers)
The equinoctial storm, which has been gathering in the heavens for a week past, has now appeared,...
71421st. (Adams Papers)
Cold, disagreeable Weather, all the morning. In the afternoon it storm’d. My Aunt and myself, sat...
715Wednesday March 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
At home all day: Eliza, dined and passed the afternoon, at Mr. Duncan’s. Mr. Thaxter went to...
716[August 1786] (Adams Papers)
There was a meeting of an association of ministers here this day; but there were only three...
71723d. (Adams Papers)
Attended upon Mr. Carey the whole day. His manner is not very agreeable; but his stile is much...
71825th. (Adams Papers)
We had no reciting to day. Saturday mornings commonly the two elder Classes, recite to their own...
71929th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. White’s, in Company, with Mrs. White of Boston, Mrs. Willard, Mrs. Parkman, and My...
720[December 1786] (Adams Papers)
It was on Wednesday, that the troop of horsemen from Boston went up in search of Shattuck. They...