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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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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.... | |
351 | Adams, John | June 20th. 1761. | 1761-06-20 | I have latterly arose much earlyer than Usual. Arose at five and at 6 O’clock, instead of 8 and... | |
352 | Adams, John | Saturday June 20th. 1761. | 1761-06-20 | I have been interrupted from Reading this Institute ever since Feby. Amidst the Dissipations of... | |
353 | Adams, John | [July 1761] | 1761-07-07 | Dined at Deacon Hills, with Sam Quincy and his Bride, and with Mr. Cushing a Representative of... | |
354 | Adams, John | July 7th. 1761. | 1761-07-07 | Dined at Deacon Hills, with Sam Quincy and his Bride, and with Mr. Cushing a Representative of... | |
355 | Adams, John | [August 1761] | 1761-08-01 | I am creating Enemies in every Quarter of the Town. The Clarks hate. Mother Hubbard, Thayer,... | |
356 | Adams, John | Augt. 1st. | 1761-08-01 | I am creating Enemies in every Quarter of the Town. The Clarks hate. Mother Hubbard, Thayer,... | |
357 | Adams, John | [September 1761] | 1761-09-10 | Spent Evening at Zabs with the Parson. Wibirt . I have seen a Picture of Oliver Cromwell, with... | |
358 | Adams, John | Septr. 10th. 1761. | 1761-09-10 | Spent Evening at Zabs with the Parson. Wibirt . I have seen a Picture of Oliver Cromwell, with... | |
359 | Adams, John | [October 1761] | ≈1761-10-17 | Read in Just inian and Lancelot. I began Lancelotts Institute last Jany., and have read no... | |
360 | Adams, John | Octr. 17th. 1761. | 1761-10-17 | Read in Just inian and Lancelot. | |
361 | Adams, John | Octr. 17th. 1761. | 1761-10-17 | I began Lancelotts Institute last Jany., and have read no farther than Lib er 3. Ti tulus 8. De... | |
362 | Adams, John | Octr. 18th. 1761. Sunday. | 1761-10-18 | Arose at 6. Read in Popes Satyrs. Nil Admirari &c. I last night read thro, both of Dr. Donnes... | |
363 | Adams, John | [November 1761] | ≈1761-11-10 | Another Year is come round, and I can recollect still less Reading, than I could last Novr. The... | |
364 | Adams, John | Novr. 10th. 1761. | 1761-11-10 | Another Year is come round, and I can recollect still less Reading, than I could last Novr. The... | |
365 | Adams, John | Novr. 14th. 1761. | 1761-11-14 | Brother Quincy and I were Sworn, before the Superiour Court. It is now more than five Years since... | |
366 | Adams, John | Novr. 20th. 1761. Monday. | 1761-11-20 | This day removed to my Chamber, and made a Fire. The Forenoon was Spent in Conversation with Zab,... | |
367 | Adams, John | [June 1762] | ≈1762-06-05 | Rode from Bass’s to Secretary Olivers, in Company with Judge Oliver. The Judge soon opened upon... | |
368 | Adams, John | June 5th. 1762. | 1762-06-05 | Rode from Bass’s to Secretary Olivers, in Company with Judge Oliver. The Judge soon opened upon... | |
369 | Adams, John | June 8th. 1762. | 1762-06-08 | Went to Taunton Court. To the Land of Leonards. Three Judges of the Common Pleas of that Name,... | |
370 | Adams, John | [August 1762] | 1762-08-15 | Reading, Thinking, Writing—have I totally renounced all three? Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur... |