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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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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.... |