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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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21 | Adams, John | 31 Saturday. | 1756-01-31 | A warm, spring-like Day. Kept School. Lodged at Mr. Maccartys, at night. | |
22 | Adams, John | [February 1756] | ≈1756-02-01 | Pretty cold. Staid at Home, A.M. P.M. heard Mr. Maccarty. Lodg’d with him at night. Wrote to John... | |
23 | Adams, John | February. 1756. 1 Sunday. | 1756-02-01 | Pretty cold. Staid at Home, A.M. P.M. heard Mr. Maccarty. Lodg’d with him at night. | |
24 | Adams, John | 2 Monday. | 1756-02-02 | Wrote to John Wentworth by Coll. Josiah Willard. Spent the Eve, sup’d and lodg’d at Major... | |
25 | Adams, John | 3 Tuesday. | 1756-02-03 | Breakfasted at Gardiners. This morn the Weather clear’d away. As warm and brilliant as May. Kept... | |
26 | Adams, John | 4 Wednesday. | 1756-02-04 | A charming warm Day. Dined at Coll. Chandler’s with Mr. Pain, Abel Willard and Ebenr. Thayer.... | |
27 | Adams, John | 5 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-05 | A fair morning but some symptoms of a Change of Weather. Kept School. Spent the evening with... | |
28 | Adams, John | 6 Fryday. | 1756-02-06 | A cloudy morning. About 10 the sun brake out. A warm Day. Dined at Mr. Paines. Kept school. Spent... | |
29 | Adams, John | 7 Saturday. | 1756-02-07 | A Fair warm, day. Dined at the Judges. Drank Tea at Major Gardiners. | |
30 | Adams, John | 8 Sunday. | 1756-02-08 | Heard Mr. Maccarty. Fine Weather. | |
31 | Adams, John | 9 Monday. | 1756-02-09 | Fine Weather. Settled roads. Drank Tea and spent the Evening at Coll. Chandlers, very gaily, with... | |
32 | Adams, John | 10 Tuesday. | 1756-02-10 | Fair Weather. Spent the Evening at Major Chandlers, with Major Greene and Mr. Maccarty. Charming... | |
33 | Adams, John | 11 Wednesday. | 1756-02-11 | Serene Weather, but somewhat cool. I am constantly forming, but never executing good resolutions.... | |
34 | Adams, John | 12 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-12 | A cool, but pleasant morning. Heard Mr. Welman Wellman preach the Lecture, and drank Tea, with... | |
35 | Adams, John | 13 Fryday. | 1756-02-13 | A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon,... | |
36 | Adams, John | 14 Saturday. | 1756-02-14 | Good Weather. This afternoon took a Vomit of Tartar Emet. and Turbith mineral, that worked 7... | |
37 | Adams, John | 15 Sunday. | 1756-02-15 | Charming Weather. A.M. staid at home reading the Independent Whig. Very often Shepherds that are... | |
38 | Adams, John | 16 Monday. | 1756-02-16 | A most beautiful morning. We have the most moderate Winter that ever was known in this country.... | |
39 | Adams, John | 17 Tuesday. | 1756-02-17 | A clowdy Day. Dined at Mr. Greenes. | |
40 | Adams, John | 18 Wednesday. | 1756-02-18 | A charming morning. My Classmate Gardner drank Tea with me. Spent an Hour in the beginning of the... | |
41 | Adams, John | 19 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-19 | No man is intirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted... | |
42 | Adams, John | 20 Fryday. | 1756-02-20 | A dull Day. Symptoms of Snow. Writing Tillotson. That is, copying out extracts from the published... | |
43 | Adams, John | 21 Saturday. | 1756-02-21 | A Snowy day. Snow about ancle deep. I find by repeated experiment and observation, in my School,... | |
44 | Adams, John | 22 Sunday. | 1756-02-22 | Suppos a nation in some distant Region, should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every... | |
45 | Adams, John | 23 Monday. | 1756-02-23 | Fair weather. Crawford spent the Evening here. | |
46 | Adams, John | 24 Tuesday. | 1756-02-24 | A fine morning. We are told that Demosthenes transcribed the history of Thucidides 8 times, in... | |
47 | Adams, John | 25 Wednesday. | 1756-02-25 | Fair and cold Weather. An extream cold night. | |
48 | Adams, John | 26 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-26 | Fair cold morning. An extream cold Day. | |
49 | Adams, John | 27 Fryday. | 1756-02-27 | A fair, cold day. Drank Tea at Mrs. Paines. All day, in high health, and spirits. Writing... | |
50 | Adams, John | 28 Saturday. | 1756-02-28 | A raw cold day. Attended Mrs. Brown’s funeral. Let this, and every other Instance of human... | |
51 | Adams, John | 29 Sunday. | 1756-02-29 | Went to Leicester with Thayer. Heard him preach all Day. Dined at Mr. Whitneys. Returned home and... | |
52 | Adams, John | [March 1756] | ≈1756-03-01 | Wrote out Bolingbrokes reflections on Exile. For JA ’s lifelong study of, and his extensive... | |
53 | Adams, John | March. 1756. 1 Monday. | 1756-03-01 | Wrote out Bolingbrokes reflections on Exile. For JA ’s lifelong study of, and his extensive... | |
54 | Adams, John | 2 Tuesday. | 1756-03-02 | A snow fall last night, half leg deep. Began this afternoon, my 3rd. quarter. The great and... | |
55 | Adams, John | 3 Wednesday. | 1756-03-03 | Fair Weather. Natural Phylosophy is the Art of deducing the generall laws and properties of... | |
56 | Adams, John | 4 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-04 | A fine morn. | |
57 | Adams, John | 5 Fryday. | 1756-03-05 | Dined at home, Mr. Barnes dined here, drank Tea, and spent the evening at Coll. Chandlers. The... | |
58 | Adams, John | 6 Saturday. | 1756-03-06 | Rose 1/2 after 4. A clowdy morn. Wrote Bolinbrokes letter on retirement and study. | |
59 | Adams, John | 7 Sunday. | 1756-03-07 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all day. Spent the Evening and supped at Mr. Greenes, with Thayer. Honesty,... | |
60 | Adams, John | 8 Monday. | 1756-03-08 | Spent the Evening at Major Chandlers. Fair Weather. | |
61 | Adams, John | 9 Tuesday. | 1756-03-09 | A charming Day. Spent the evening up Chamber. | |
62 | Adams, John | 10 Wednesday. | 1756-03-10 | A misty morning. Sun brake out about noon. Spent Evening at Gardiners. | |
63 | Adams, John | 11 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-11 | Dined at the Colonels. Drank Tea at Mr. Paines with a number of Ladies, and spent the Evening at... | |
64 | Adams, John | 12 Fryday. | 1756-03-12 | Clowdy. Laid a pair of Gloves with Mrs. Willard that she would not see me chew tobacco this... | |
65 | Adams, John | 13 Saturday. | 1756-03-13 | Some Snow last night, a clowdy, raw morning. | |
66 | Adams, John | 14 Sunday. | 1756-03-14 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day upon Abrahams Faith, in offering up Isaac. Spent the Evening, very... | |
67 | Adams, John | 15 Monday. | 1756-03-15 | I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider my self, in my great Chair at School, as some... | |
68 | Adams, John | 16 Tuesday. | 1756-03-16 | Sat out for Uxbridge, arrived about 12, dined. Rode to Aldridges after Mr. Webb, and brought him... | |
69 | Adams, John | 17 Wednesday. | 1756-03-17 | A fine morning. Proceeded on my Journey towards Braintree. Stop’ed at Josiah Adams’s. Baited at... | |
70 | Adams, John | 18 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-18 | A cloudy morning. Spent the afternoon at my Uncles, and part of the Evening at the Doctor’s.... |