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No. Author Recipient Title Date Context
131 Adams, John 15 [i.e. 16]. Sunday. 1756-05-16 A pleasant morning. The Week past was Court week. I was interrupted by Company, and the noisy...
132 Adams, John 16 [i.e. 17] Monday. 1756-05-17 The Elephant and the Lion, when their Strength is directed and applyd by Man, can exert a...
133 Adams, John 17 [i.e. 18] Tuesday. 1756-05-18 17 i.e. 18 Tuesday.
134 Adams, John 18 [i.e. 19] Wednesday. 1756-05-19 18 i.e. 19 Wednesday.
135 Adams, John 19 [i.e. 20] Thurdsday. 1756-05-20 Spent the Evening at Gardiners.
136 Adams, John 20 [i.e. 21] Fryday. 1756-05-21 After School, rode to Shrewsbury, went to Capt. Hows, to see Dr. Flynt, spent an Hour, and then...
137 Adams, John 21 [i.e. 22] Saturday. 1756-05-22 Dined at Judge Chandlers.
138 Adams, John 22 [i.e. 23] Sunday. 1756-05-23 Heard Mr. Maccarty. He is particularly fond of the following Expressions. Carnal, ungodly...
139 Adams, John 23 [i.e. 24] Monday. 1756-05-24 A pleasant morning. Drank Tea at the Colonells.—Had the projectile Force in the Planets been...
140 Adams, John 24 [i.e. 25] Tuesday. 1756-05-25 A cool, but pleasant Day.
141 Adams, John 25 [i.e. 26] Wednesday. 1756-05-26 Election Day. I have spent all this Day at Home reading a little and eating a little Election Cake.
142 Adams, John 26 [i.e. 27] Thurdsday. 1756-05-27 Drank Tea at the Colonels with a Number of Ladies. Spent the Evening partly at Putnams and partly...
143 Adams, John 27 [i.e. 28] Fryday. 1756-05-28 Dined at the Majors. A pleasant Day.—If we examine critically the little Prospect that lies...
144 Adams, John 28 [i.e. 29] Saturday. 1756-05-29 Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams.—What is the proper Business of Mankind in this Life? We come into the...
145 Adams, John 29 [i.e. 30] Sunday. 1756-05-30 Heard Mr. Maccarty. “You who are sinners, are in continual Danger of being swallowed up quick and...
146 Adams, John 30 [i.e. 31] Monday. 1756-05-31 When we see or feel any Body, we discern nothing but Bulk and Extention. We can change this...
147 Adams, John [June 1756] ≈1756-06-01 Drank Tea at the Majors. The Reasoning of Mathematicians is founded on certain and infallible...
148 Adams, John June 1756. 1 Tuesday. 1756-06-01 Drank Tea at the Majors. The Reasoning of Mathematicians is founded on certain and infallible...
149 Adams, John 2 Wednesday. 1756-06-02 Went to Spencer in the afternoon.—When we come into the World, our minds are destitute of all...
150 Adams, John 3 Thurdsday. 1756-06-03 Heard Mr. Maccarty preach the Lecture, drank Tea with him, and spent the Evening at the Majors.
151 Adams, John 4 Friday. 1756-06-04 4 Friday.
152 Adams, John 5 Saturday. 1756-06-05 Dreamed away the afternoon.
153 Adams, John 6 Sunday. 1756-06-06 Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Drank Tea at home with Crawford. Spent the Evening at home with Mr....
154 Adams, John 7[–13] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurdsday, Fryday … ≈1756-06-07 7 –13 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurdsday, Fryday, Saturday, Sunday.
155 Adams, John 14 Monday. 1756-06-14 Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams. Spent the Evening at the Majors, with Esqrs. Chandler of Woodstock and...
156 Adams, John 15 Tuesday. 1756-06-15 Consider, for one minute, the Changes produced in this Country, within the Space of 200 years....
157 Adams, John 20 Sunday. 1756-06-20 Supped and spent the Evening at the Majors.
158 Adams, John 21 Monday. 1756-06-21 A cool Day.
159 Adams, John 22 Tuesday. 1756-06-22 A rainy Day. Drank Tea and spent Evening at Put nam’s .
160 Adams, John 23 Wednesday. 1756-06-23 Went with Mr. Thayer and Mrs. Willard, to Mr. Richardsons of Sutton.
161 Adams, John 24 [–27] Thurdsday. Fryday. Saturday. Sunday. ≈1756-06-24 Spent the Evening at the Colonels. Presumably the text of this entry pertains to the last day in...
162 Adams, John 28 Monday. 1756-06-28 28 Monday.
163 Adams, John [July 1756] ≈1756-07-19 Sat out for Boston. Borrowed the Idea of a Patriot King of Ned. Quincy. Rode to Cambridge. Lodgd....
164 Adams, John July. 1756. 19. Monday. 1756-07-19 Sat out for Boston. Borrowed the Idea of a Patriot King of Ned. Quincy. Rode to Cambridge. Lodgd....
165 Adams, John 20 Tuesday. 1756-07-20 Eliot and Trumble lodged here with me.
166 Adams, John 21 Wednesday. 1756-07-21 Kept School.—I am now entering on another Year, and I am resolved not to neglect my Time as I did...
167 Adams, John 22 Thurdsday. 1756-07-22 Fast day. Rose not till 7 o clock. This is the usual Fate of my Resolutions! Wrote the 3 first...
168 Adams, John 23 Friday. 1756-07-23 Rose at 7. Wrote the 2 last Chapters of St. James. Spent the Evening at the Majors and drank Tea...
169 Adams, John 24 Saturday. 1756-07-24 Rose at 7. Wrote a little in Greek. Afternoon wrote Bolinbroke.
170 Adams, John 25 Sunday. 1756-07-25 Rose 1/2 after 6.—Good Sense, some say, is enough to regulate our Conduct, to dictate Thoughts...
171 Adams, John 26 Monday. 1756-07-26 Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines in Virgil.
172 Adams, John 27 Tuesday. 1756-07-27 Rose at 7. Read carefully 30 lines, in Virgil. Wrote a little in Bolingbroke at noon and a little...
173 Adams, John 28 Wednesday. 1756-07-28 Read about 40 lines in Virgil, and wrote a little at noon. Nothing more.
174 Adams, John 29 Thurdsday. 1756-07-29 Rose half after 6. Read a little Greek.
175 Adams, John 30 Fryday. 1756-07-30 A very rainy Day. Dreamed away the Time.
176 Adams, John 31 Saturday. 1756-07-31 A rainy forenoon. Dined at Mr. Paines. A fair after noon . The Nature and Essence of the material...
177 Adams, John [August 1756] ≈1756-08-01 Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Spent the Evening at the Collonels.— The Event Shews that my...
178 Adams, John August. 1756. 1 Sunday. 1756-08-01 Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day. Spent the Evening at the Collonels.— The Event Shews that my...
179 Adams, John 2 Monday. 1756-08-02 Agreably to the Design laid last night, I arose this Morning before the sun. Dined at Pains....
180 Adams, John 3 Tuesday. 1756-08-03 Dind at the Colonels. Lodged at Put nam’s .