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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...
321 Adams, John Decr. 6th. 1760. 1760-12-06 Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende...
322 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 8. 1760-12-08 Began Machiavells Machiavell The illegible word begins with “D” but is not “Discourses.” JA ’s...
323 Adams, John Decr. 14th. 1760. 1760-12-14 Hunt v. White. Complaint to Coll. Quincy—of a scandalous Lye, made and published to Hunts Damage....
324 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 16th. Tuesday. 1760-12-16 Attended the Tryal all day, between Hunt and White before Coll. Quincy, at James Bracketts. What...
325 Adams, John 1760 Decr. 18th. Thurdsday. 1760-12-18 Yesterday spent in Weymouth, in settling the Disputes between old Thos. White and young Isaac...
326 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 18. 1760-12-18 Justice Dyer says there is more Occasion for Justices than for Lawyers. Lawyers live upon the...
327 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday. 1760-12-19 I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed my whole Life in the...
328 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 22nd. Monday. 1760-12-22 This day and Tomorrow are the last. I have but one Blank left that I can use.
329 Adams, John 1760. Decr. 27th. Saturday. 1760-12-27 Governor Bernards Speech to the two Houses, at the opening of the present sessions, has several...
330 Adams, John [January 1761] ≈1761-01-01 The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
331 Adams, John Jany. 2nd. 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Fryday. 1761-01-02 The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
332 Adams, John 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Jany. 2nd. Friday. 1761-01-02 Nathl. Bayley Administrator v. Nathll. Niles.—Plea in Abatement. Defendant lives on the Castle,...
333 Adams, John Jany. 8th. 1761. 1761-01-08 Last Monday, had a passionate Wrangle, with Eb. Thayer, before Major Crosby. He called me, a...
334 Adams, John [January? 1761.] ≈1761-01-01 I am an old Man, seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have spent my whole Life, a few...
335 Adams, John 1761. Tuesday Jany. 27th. 1761-01-27 Last Fryday I borrowed of Mr. Gridley, the second Volume of the Corpus Iuris Canonici Notis...
336 Adams, John [February 1761] ≈1761-02-06 I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is...
337 Adams, John 1761. Friday [6] Feby. 1761-02-06 I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is...
338 Adams, John 1761 Monday. Feby. 9th. 1761-02-09 This morning, as I lay abed, I recollected my last Weeks Work. I find I was extreamly diligent,...
339 Adams, John 1761. Feb. 9th. 1761-02-09 His Majesty has declared him self, by his Speech to his Parliament to be a Man of Piety, and...
340 Adams, John [March 1761] ≈1761-03-01 Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High...
341 Adams, John March 3d. 1761. 1761-03-03 Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High...
342 Adams, John [Marginal Note in Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes.] 1761-03-12 March 12th. 1761. Another Earthquake happened which may perhaps enable us to determine,...
343 Adams, John [March? 1761.] ≈1761-03-01 Parson Smith’s Parsonage. Vid. 6th. Wm. & M. C. 5. Page 60.—Charter Page 6th &c. from Index to...
344 Adams, John March 21st. 1761. 1761-03-21 Memorandum. To enquire more particularly into the Practice in Weymouth—how they estimate a Days...
345 Adams, John [April 1761] 1761-04-03 Z. tells me, that Jona. Rawson is malicious and cruel as well as conceited. He spights Edd....
346 Adams, John April 3d. 1761. 1761-04-03 Z. tells me, that Jona. Rawson is malicious and cruel as well as conceited. He spights Edd....
347 Adams, John [May 1761] ≈1761-05-01 I am myself an Inhabitant of Boston, and have I think an honest affection for the Town, and a...
348 Adams, John [Draft of a Letter to the Boston Gazette, May 1761.] ≈1761-05-01 I am myself an Inhabitant of Boston, and have I think an honest affection for the Town, and a...
349 Adams, John [June 1761] ≈1761-06-11 I have been for a Week or fortnight engaged in a Project. Have remarkably succeeded hitherto. Mr....
350 Adams, John June 11th. 1761. 1761-06-11 I have been for a Week or fortnight engaged in a Project. Have remarkably succeeded hitherto. Mr....