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...
297125th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with my Cousin, and brothers at Mr. White’s; the young Captain was there, a youth, who goes...
297226th. (Adams Papers)
This morning my Cousin and Brother left us, to return back to Braintree. The late thaw has made...
297327th. (Adams Papers)
Finished the first book of the Satires, and began, the 2d. These I find no difficulty in, as I...
297428th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Shaw went over to Bradford in the afternoon, and pass’d it at Mr. Allen’s. Read Locke, upon...
297529th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Allen preach’d here to day. In the morning from Matthew VI. 33. But seek ye first the kingdom...
297630th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d almost all day. Finish’d the first Book of Homer’s Iliad, which is far more entertaining...
297731st. (Adams Papers)
Began upon the 4th Book of the Cyropaedia. The wind at about noon, shifted to the North West, and...
2978[February 1786] (Adams Papers)
Slept none last Night. Felt unwell all day. Went in the evening to Mr. White’s but nobody was...
2979Wednesday February 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
Slept none last Night. Felt unwell all day. Went in the evening to Mr. White’s but nobody was...
29802d. (Adams Papers)
Lecture day. Mr. Adams, Mr. Allen, and Master Parker, dined here. I did not go. In the afternoon...
29813d. (Adams Papers)
Drank tea at old Mrs. Marsh’s. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have, a very high opinion of this Person; and I...
29824th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Osgood’s in a large Company. 16 persons, at table. Mr. Larieu, a frenchman, and Mr....
29835th. (Adams Papers)
A Snowy day. Two Sermons from Hebrews XI. 1. Now faith is the Substance of things hoped for, the...
29846th. (Adams Papers)
Finished the 4th. Book of the Cyropaedia; I shall have no more to do with this author while I...
29857th. (Adams Papers)
Drank tea, and spent the evening at Mr. Payson’s. His lady, who has had two daughters by a...
29868th. (Adams Papers)
At home all day. Mr. True, was here all the afternoon. There is something extraordinary about...
29879th. (Adams Papers)
Miss Nancy, finally left us, this afternoon; and is going to board at Mr. Israël Bartlett’s. Her...
298810th. (Adams Papers)
Thaw’d all day. The winter seems in some measure, to be gone; very little snow remaining on the...
298911th. (Adams Papers)
Eliza spent the day at Mr. White’s; went down and drank tea there, with Mr. Thaxter, who was here...
299012th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Howe, preached us two Sermons from John III. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,...