Je fus à Delft avec Monsr. Fitch1 et sa
compagnie, qui partent pour L’Angleterre.
1. Most likely Eliphalet Fitch, a native Bostonian, reputedly very rich, who may have held a
crown office in Jamaica, and whom JA described to JQA as a
grandson of Dr. Thomas Boylston “and consequently your Relation” (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 3:134; JA to JQA, 12 June, LbC, Adams Papers).