294127th. (Adams Papers)
Was at home all day. The Cold, has in some measure abated, but is still severe. The Ladies pass’d...
294228th. (Adams Papers)
The sharpest day we have had, this Season. Dined at Mr. Duncan’s, in Company, with Miss P. White,...
294329th. (Adams Papers)
Young Lakeman, who studies with us, came over the river in the morning upon the Ice. The river...
294430th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d hard all day. The weather very chilly and disagreeable. I finish’d the first book of the...
294531st. (Adams Papers)
Finish’d Watts’s logic. Which I have been a long time, about, but have never look’d in it except...
2946[January 1786] (Adams Papers)
The forenoon discourse from Acts XXVI. 22. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto...
2947January 1st. 1786. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
The forenoon discourse from Acts XXVI. 22. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto...
29482d. (Adams Papers)
At about half past 7 this morning, a slight shock of an Earthquake, was felt here. It lasted...
29493d. (Adams Papers)
A heavy Snow storm, all day. Not less I imagine, than two feet fell, upon a level. Mr. Thaxter...
29504th. (Adams Papers)
It has not yet cleared up, but no Snow fell this day. In the Evening I went down to Mr. White’s...
29515th. (Adams Papers)
It snow’d again almost all day. Mr. W. White, and Leonard, came, and pass’d an hour here, in the...
29526th. (Adams Papers)
Went down in the Evening and was a couple of hours at Mr. White’s. They were to have had Company,...
29537th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Bartlett’s. There were 15 persons at Table, of whom I was not acquainted with Mr....
29548th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams, the Minister of another Parish, belonging to this Town changed with Mr. Shaw, and...
29559th. (Adams Papers)
Was all day at home, and in the evening, closed my Letter to my Sister, as the Post goes for...
295610th. (Adams Papers)
Leonard White came up in the morning, and proposed to me, to make one of a small slaying party to...
295711th. (Adams Papers)
Finished in the forenoon, the second Book of the Cyropaedia; which I began, the 2d. of this...
295812th. (Adams Papers)
Began in the forenoon upon the third book of the Cyropaedia; Eliza Duncan, Miss Stevenson and Mr....
295913th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Payson pass’d the afternoon here. A Daughter of Mrs. Sargeants who was a Coquettish young...
296014th. (Adams Papers)
I was up late last Night, to finish the fourth book of Horace’s Odes; and found my Eyes, this...
296115th. (Adams Papers)
Snowy weather all day. We attended however both the meetings. The forenoon text was from Isaiah...
296216th. (Adams Papers)
The gentlemen left us this morning for Portsmouth. The weather very cold. At home all day. Began...
296317th. (Adams Papers)
An extreme cold day. I regretted much, not having my thermometer with me, to see the Proportion,...
296418th. (Adams Papers)
The severest day we have had this Season. Did not stir out of the house, all day. Nancy,...
296519th. (Adams Papers)
The Cold has not been so violent this day, as the two former. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, Miss Nancy and...
296620th. (Adams Papers)
A Number of Ladies, drank tea here, and Judge Sargeant also. I went with Mr. Thaxter and my...
296721st. (Adams Papers)
Finished the Epodes of Horace, and the third book of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. There is no poem of...
296822. (Adams Papers)
The Weather has softened so much, that, it thaw’d last Night, and has, all this day. We had...
296923d. (Adams Papers)
Began upon Homer’s Iliad, in the morning, and got through 50 lines. This author would be very...
297024th. (Adams Papers)
Went over, with my Cousin and brother Charles, to dine with Mr. Allen at Bradford. A lame foot...