315115th. (Adams Papers)
Read part of the volume of anecdotes concerning Dr. Johnson. He appears to have been a brute; a...
315216th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Wibird preached all day upon the Same Subject. His text was in I Corinthians XV. 55, 56, 57....
315317th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Cranch went to Boston. Miss P. Storer, N. Quincy and B. Apthorp, pass’d the afternoon, we...
315418th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d a great part of the Day. Miss Hiller is only fourteen, her person comes very near to my...
315519th. (Adams Papers)
At about 7 1/2 in the morning I set out for Cambridge, and arrived there just as the Clock struck...
315620th. (Adams Papers)
John Andrews Divinity. Samuel Andrews Law x John Bartlett died in 1786. Timothy Bigelow Law...
315721st. (Adams Papers)
Spent great part of the day in my fathers library, reading, and writing. This day and to-morrow...
315822d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw went over to Weymouth. Mr. Cranch returned from Boston, and Mr. Standfast Smith came...
315923d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Davies preach’d in the forenoon from Matthew V, 20. For I say unto you, that except your...
316024th. (Adams Papers)
The young gentlemen went down to Germantown: it was too hot for me. I spent almost the whole day...
316125th. (Adams Papers)
My Grandmamma spent the Day at Mr. Cranch’s. General Palmer was up in the afternoon. I wrote part...
316226th. (Adams Papers)
At about 6 this morning we set out I on horseback, Charles and Tom in a Sulkey; we got to...
316327th. (Adams Papers)
I perceive Charles has been guilty of a trick which I thought he would despise; that of prying...
316428th. (Adams Papers)
Captain Wyer, arrived a few days since from Ireland, and had caught a couple of Turtles in the...
316529th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. White’s, in Company, with Mrs. White of Boston, Mrs. Willard, Mrs. Parkman, and My...
316630th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw preach’d in the forenoon from Proverbs I. 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase...
316731st. (Adams Papers)
I paid a few visits in the morning. Dined with a pretty large Company at Mr. Duncan’s. After...
3168[August 1786] (Adams Papers)
There was a meeting of an association of ministers here this day; but there were only three...
3169Tuesday August 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
There was a meeting of an association of ministers here this day; but there were only three...
31702d. (Adams Papers)
We Lodged at Hamstead last night: it storm’d so all this morning, that, we could not think of...
31713d. (Adams Papers)
Spent part of the forenoon at Mr. Thaxter’s Office. Mr. Dodge was there. I went with Mr. Thaxter...
31724th. (Adams Papers)
Went in the forenoon, and pick’d blackberries with the young Ladies. Lucy Cranch tells me I have...
31735th. (Adams Papers)
We were up at four in the morning; but were so long in preparing our things that we did not set...
31746th. (Adams Papers)
I felt so stiff all day that I did not go to meeting. I was unfit for almost every thing, and...
31757th. (Adams Papers)
I could not sleep last night. Lay restless till about 3 in the morning. Then got up, and read one...
31768th. (Adams Papers)
Read through the remainder of the Dialogues, which Reid says, “prove by unanswerable arguments,...
31779th. (Adams Papers)
All the forenoon down in the Library; reading and writing. Pass’d the afternoon at my uncle...
317810th. (Adams Papers)
Spent the whole day in my father’s library; wrote but little, I cannot indeed write half so much...
317911th. (Adams Papers)
I went down with Charles and Billy to Mrs. Quincy’s, in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gannett were...
318012th. (Adams Papers)
Charles and myself went over to Weymouth, and dined at Doctor Tufts’s. We were overtaken by a...
318113th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Weld preach’d all day from Micah VI. 8. He hath shewed thee O man, what is good, and what...
318214th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Cranch went to Boston in the morning. My aunt and Miss Betsey, are both of them unwell. The...
318315th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Dingley return’d to Duxbury: he proposes returning here next Friday, to spend a fortnight....
318416th. (Adams Papers)
Charles came to Cambridge last Monday in order to move into our new Chamber. My Cousin and myself...
318517th. (Adams Papers)
The Scholars are coming in very fast, and are almost all of them busy, in putting their new...
318618th. (Adams Papers)
They were obliged to carry off Stratten this forenoon, as he could not possibly walk. I finished...
318719th. (Adams Papers)
Leonard White Came from Boston, and Cranch return’d from Braintree this day. Almost all the...
318820th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Deane, of Falmouth preach’d here this day, in the forenoon from Matthew. XI. 29. Take my yoke...
318921st. (Adams Papers)
We recite this week, and the next to Mr. Read; The juniors have now a leisure week; Mr. Hale...
319022d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw came last evening with my brother Tom, who was examined this morning for the freshman...
319123d. (Adams Papers)
Went to Mr. Dana’s in the forenoon. He proposes going to Maryland, to meet in a Federal...
319224th. (Adams Papers)
Went down to the President’s, for an order to take a book from the Library, but he did not know...
319325th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Read made a mistake, in calling over the Freshmen this morning, as it is customary to except...
319426th. (Adams Papers)
Rainy weather all day. I had a number of the Class at my Chamber in the Afternoon. Immediately...
319527th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the morning from Philippians, IV. 11. Not that I speak in respect of...
319628th. (Adams Papers)
We recite again to Mr. Read this week, but he did not attend in the afternoon because, we had a...
319729th. (Adams Papers)
We had no recitation in the afternoon. After Prayers, we had a meeting of the ΦBK at Freeman, and...
319830th. (Adams Papers)
The Society met, this morning at Packard’s Chamber agreeable to their Resolution. Mr. Paine...
319931st. (Adams Papers)
Charles went to Boston in the morning. I began upon Trigonometry in my mathematical manuscript....
3200[September 1786] (Adams Papers)
Studied Algebra all the forenoon. Took books from the Library, Brydone’s Tour vol: 2d. Ossian’s...