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271 | Adams, John | Tuesday. 24th. June. | 1760-06-24 | Arose early, a very beautiful Morning. Zab. seems to make insufficient Distinctions between the... | |
272 | Adams, John | Wednesday [25 June]. | 1760-06-25 | Went out with the Coll., in his Canoe, after Tom Codd. Rowed down, in a still calm, and smooth... | |
273 | Adams, John | 1760. June 26. Thurdsday. | 1760-06-26 | Feel indifferently well after my yesterdays walk and sail. I have begun to read the Spirit of... | |
274 | Adams, John | June 27th. Friday. | 1760-06-27 | Read 100 Pages in the Spirit of Laws. Rambled away to a fine Spring in my Cozen Adam’s Land,... | |
275 | Adams, John | [July 1760] | ≈1760-07-01 | Went to Town. Mr. Thatcher . You have read a great deal, Mr. Adams, in the Roman History,... | |
276 | Adams, John | Tuesday. July 1st. 1760. | 1760-07-01 | Went to Town. Mr. Thatcher . You have read a great deal, Mr. Adams, in the Roman History,... | |
277 | Adams, John | Thurdsday July 3rd. 1760. | 1760-07-03 | Read pretty diligently in the Spirit of Laws.—Hayden’s Consultation suggested the following... | |
278 | Adams, John | 1760. Saturday July 5th. | 1760-07-05 | Last Night Cranch explained to me, the Water Works in the River Thames which convey water, all... | |
279 | Adams, John | July 6th. Sunday. | 1760-07-06 | Heard Mr. Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard. | |
280 | Adams, John | July 9th. Wednesday. | 1760-07-09 | Gould has got the story of White and Bowditch. | |
281 | Adams, John | Saturday [12 or 19 July]. | ≈1760-07-12 | I find upon Examination, that a Warrant of Attorney given by an Infant is void; so that, if you... | |
282 | Adams, John | Sunday Morning [13 or 20] July 1760. | ≈1760-07-13 | The week before last Salome Pope appeared before Coll. Quincy, to confess herself with Child, by... | |
283 | Adams, John | Fryday July 25th. | 1760-07-25 | We contend that the Plaintiffs ought to recover nothing on this Bond, because according to the... | |
284 | Adams, John | 1760. July 26. | 1760-07-26 | This Bond has been at least once and an half, if not twice, paid. The Case is this. About 15... | |
285 | Adams, John | [August 1760] | ≈1760-08-03 | Hollis has appealed. If he prosecutes his Appeal, he shall be paid. I believe there never was an... | |
286 | Adams, John | August 3d. 1760. | 1760-08-03 | Hollis has appealed. If he prosecutes his Appeal, he shall be paid. I believe there never was an... | |
287 | Adams, John | 1760. Aug. 9th. | 1760-08-09 | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincys, with Coll. Gooch and Dr. Gardiner. I see Gooch’s fiery Spirit, his... | |
288 | Adams, John | 1760. Aug. 12th. | 1760-08-12 | Remonstrated at the sessions vers. Licensing Lambard, because the select Men had refused to... | |
289 | Adams, John | 1760 Aug. 19th. | 1760-08-19 | I began Popes Homer, last Saturday Night was a Week, and last Night, which was Monday night I... | |
290 | Adams, John | [September 1760] | 1760-09-24 | Ephraim Jones, being a Widower and having two Children by a former Wife marries another, and soon... | |
291 | Adams, John | 1760. Septr. 24th. | 1760-09-24 | Ephraim Jones, being a Widower and having two Children by a former Wife marries another, and soon... | |
292 | Adams, John | Septr. 24th. 1760. | 1760-09-24 | If I am the Proprietor of an House, and I lease it to any Man, and bind my self to keep it in... | |
293 | Adams, John | [October 1760] | ≈1760-10-07 | Waited on Mr. Gridley for his Opinion of my Declaration Lambard v. Tirrell, and for his Advice,... | |
294 | Adams, John | Octr. 7th. 1760. | 1760-10-07 | Waited on Mr. Gridley for his Opinion of my Declaration Lambard v. Tirrell, and for his Advice,... | |
295 | Adams, John | 1760. Oct. 9th. | 1760-10-09 | In Support of Complaint in Case Neal’s Action is not entered. I do not know, nor is it possible... | |
296 | Adams, John | 1760. Oct. 11th. | 1760-10-11 | Neals Action is entered so that I have two Actions to defend by Pleas in Bar and three of the... | |
297 | Adams, John | 1760. Octr. 13th. Monday. | 1760-10-13 | Attended Mr. Niles’s Court this morning for John Holbrook Junior in an Action of his against... | |
298 | Adams, John | 1760. Octr. 17th. | 1760-10-17 | What are the Questions, on which Mrs. Bracketts Bars to Danas Actions turn?—The first Question... | |
299 | Adams, John | 1760. Oct. 17. | 1760-10-17 | In the Beginning of May 58 Mr. Lambard, the Plantiff, gave a Lease of a House and Barn and Land... | |
300 | Adams, John | [November 1760] | ≈1760-11-03 | Dana says the Administrator ought not to regard the Disgrace or Trouble or Expence of a... | |
301 | Adams, John | [3] Novr. 1760. Monday. | 1760-11-03 | Dana says the Administrator ought not to regard the Disgrace or Trouble or Expence of a... | |
302 | Adams, John | Nov. 5th. 1760. | 1760-11-05 | I presume upon the common sense of the World that no offence will be taken at the Freedom of the... | |
303 | Adams, John | Novr. 14th. 1760. | 1760-11-14 | Another Year is now gone and upon Recollection, I find I have executed none of my Plans of study.... | |
304 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 14th. Friday. | 1760-11-14 | I am just entered on the 26th Year of my Life, and on the fifth Year of my studies in Law, and I... | |
305 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 14. Friday. | 1760-11-14 | The Title is “The History of the Common Law of England.” The Frontispiece, I cannot comprehend.... | |
306 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 15th. Sat. | 1760-11-15 | Spent last Evening at Coll. Quincys, with Coll. Lincoln. Several Instances were mentioned, when... | |
307 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 19th. | 1760-11-19 | Parson Smith says the Art of Printing like most other Arts, and Instruments, was discovered by... | |
308 | Adams, John | Wednesday [19 November]. | 1760-11-19 | Dined at Badcocks, with McKenzie. He pretends to Mechanicks, and Manufactures. He owns the snuff... | |
309 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 21st. Friday. | 1760-11-21 | This day has been spent to little Purpose. I must confine my Body, or I never shall confine my... | |
310 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 21st. Friday. | 1760-11-21 | Finished the History of the Common Law, the second Time. The Dissertation on hereditary Descents,... | |
311 | Adams, John | [November] 1760. | ≈1760-11-22 | Pater was in a very sociable Mood this Evening. He told 3 or 4 merry stories of old Horn. Old... | |
312 | Adams, John | Novr. 25th. 1760. | 1760-11-25 | Rode to the Iron Works Landing to see a Vessell launched. And after Launching went to smoke a... | |
313 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. | 1760-11-26 | Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10... | |
314 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 26th Wednesday. | 1760-11-26 | Night before Thanksgiving.—I have read a Multitude of Law Books—mastered but few. Wood. Coke. 2... | |
315 | Adams, John | 1760 Novr. 28th. Friday. | 1760-11-28 | I have not read one Word of Law, this Day. But several Points, and Queries have been suggested to... | |
316 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 29th. Saturday. | 1760-11-29 | Read no Law.—An exclusive Property is certainly claimed and enjoyed, by private Persons, in Tombs... | |
317 | Adams, John | Novr. 30th. Sunday. | 1760-11-30 | Read no Law. Read Bolinbroke. | |
318 | Adams, John | [December 1760] | ≈1760-12-01 | I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had... | |
319 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 1st. Monday. | 1760-12-01 | I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had... | |
320 | Adams, John | 1760. Decr. 2d. | 1760-12-02 | Spent the Evening at Coll. Q.’s with Captn. Freeman. About the middle of the Evening Dr. Lincoln... |