18321128th. (Adams Papers)
The weather very cold. No appearance of rioters as yet, tho’ it is this evening reported that there are 1500, within four miles of Cambridge. We dansed this evening at Chandler ists. Last night the ΦBK met at Burge’s chamber. Little and Cranch read disser tations. Freeman and Packard, a disputation upon the Question, whether good order is promoted more by the rewarding of virtue, than by the...
183212[Diary entry: 24 December 1797] (Washington Papers)
24. Calm but still cold. Mer. 8 a 28.
183213General Orders, 29 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
For the day tomorrow Lieutenant Colonel Gray Major Pettingall Brigade Major Cox Brigade Qr Master Bulkly For duty tomorrow 2d New York & 8th Massachusetts regiments. The adjournment of the General courtmartial of which Colonel Cortlandt is president is continued untill Wednesday, the 2d of October next when it will meet at the usual place and hour. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
183214[Diary entry: 14 May 1773] (Washington Papers)
14. Cloudy & somewhat Cool wind Shifting more Westerly.
183215General Orders, 16 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
The Hon: Continental Congress have been pleased to increase the pay of the regimental Surgeons, to Thirty-three Dollars and one third, ⅌ month, to take place from the 5th of June last; and that the pay of the troops in the middle department shall be six Dollars and two thirds ⅌ month, from the 10th of June last: The pay Abstracts are to be made out accordingly, and care taken to prevent...
183216[Diary entry: 18 January 1760] (Washington Papers)
18. Great Sleet, & mist till Noon, then clear Wd. So.
183217[Diary entry: 25 March 1748] (Washington Papers)
Fryday 25th. 1748. Nothing Remarkable on thursday but only being with the Indians all day so shall slip it. This day left Cresaps & went up to the Mouth of Patersons Creek & there swum our Horses over got over ourselves in a Canoe & travel’d up the following Part of the Day to Abram Johnstones 15 miles from the Mouth where we camped. Patterson’s Creek flows into the Potomac about 12 miles...
183218General Orders, 5 December 1775 (Washington Papers)
Varick transcript , DLC:GW .
183219Fryday. Nov. 11. 1791. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday a No. of the national Gazette was sent to me, by Phillip Freneau, printed by Childs and Swaine. Mr. Freneau, I am told is made Interpreter. The first number of the National Gazette , edited by the poet journalist Philip Freneau, was published in Philadelphia on 31 Oct. 1791. The aim of Jefferson and Madison in encouraging Freneau in this venture was to offset the influence of John...
18322015th. (Adams Papers)
A warm day, but the air has been much more pure, than for several days past. Yesterday Mr. Dana set off for Newport where he proposes tarrying till after Commencement. Drank tea with Bradbury, and my Chum, at Mr. Williams’s. After tea, we walk’d with the young ladies. Jenny has been handsome, but at the age of nineteen she has lost all her beauty, and must henceforth charm only by the...