39019th. (Adams Papers)
Doctor Leonard came here in the morning: this gentleman came as a passenger with Callahan. He...
390210th. (Adams Papers)
George Warren came over from Milton this forenoon, and paid us a visit. He opened an office in...
390311th. (Adams Papers)
This day completes my twenty first year; It emancipates me from the yoke of paternal authority...
390412th. (Adams Papers)
In the diverse amusements of reading, of shooting birds, and playing upon our flutes we past the...
390513th. (Adams Papers)
Weather still extremely warm. I heard Parson Wibird. Mr. Q. Thaxter was at meeting in the...
390614th. (Adams Papers)
Ben Beale came from Taunton this morning; he did not stop, but promised to come and see us ere...
390715th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. West went away this morning; My Father and my brother Charles, went to Boston; whence they...
390816th. (Adams Papers)
Commencement day. I mounted my horse, somewhat early, and arrived at Cambridge by nine o’clock....
390917th. (Adams Papers)
The young gentlemen who graduated yesterday were. Benjamin Abbot Solomon Adams Thomas Adams...
391018th. (Adams Papers)
Upon the warmest day we have had this Summer I was obliged to go to Boston, upon a hard trotting...
391119th. (Adams Papers)
I was considerably fatigued by my jaunt of yesterday, but made out however to read something, in...
391220th. (Adams Papers)
I tarried at home this forenoon, in order to write a Letter to my Sister. In the afternoon I...
391321st. (Adams Papers)
This morning I left Braintree in company with my brother Tom, who was going to Haverhill; and in...
391422d. (Adams Papers)
I went to see Leonard White this forenoon. His father has been unwell for some days past. His...
391523d. (Adams Papers)
I had almost promised Mr. Thaxter to wait till the afternoon; but as there was an appearance of a...
391624th. (Adams Papers)
I returned, and once more took my seat in the office: but did little this forenoon. Thompson was...
391725th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews came to town last night, and called to see us at the office this forenoon. They have...
391826th. (Adams Papers)
I went to pay a visit to Mrs. Hooper: but disappointed her by having no news from her son Jo, who...
391927th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews preached for us this day; and was somewhat longer than usual to the great...
392028th. (Adams Papers)
I finished reading Bacon’s pleas and pleading: but the subject is so knotty that I must at some...
392129th. (Adams Papers)
After spending the day as usual, I walk’d with Stacey and Putnam. After going some way into...
392230th. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon Mr. Cutler called at our office, and perswaded me to ride with him up to Mr....
392331st. (Adams Papers)
I amuse myself in reading Junius’s letters; which though the factious productions of a partizan,...
3924[August 1788] (Adams Papers)
The day was spent in the usual uninteresting manner: indeed it may be generally observed that the...
3925Friday August 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The day was spent in the usual uninteresting manner: indeed it may be generally observed that the...
39262d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Farnham proposed to me this morning to join a party, which was formed to go in the afternoon...
39273d. (Adams Papers)
I heard Mr. Andrews preach. About as long as he was last Sunday. I think he is gaining ground in...
39284th. (Adams Papers)
Blackstone still furnishes me with employment for my forenoon hours; and I this day took up the...
39295th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon A Doctor Young came to our office, for a writ against a number of insurgents. It...
39306th. (Adams Papers)
Putnam went last week to Danvers, and return’d this forenoon. He brought me a Letter, which came...
39317th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson did not attend this day at the Office. Phillips called to see us this afternoon. He has...
39328th. (Adams Papers)
We met this evening at my lodgings, as we have changed the evening in order to accommodate...
39339th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson went to see Miss Roberts at Newtown. I cannot read with so much satisfaction for some...
393410th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Kimball supplied the place of Mr. Andrews this day. I observed none of Captn. Coombs’s family...
393511th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson watch’d last evening; in consequence of which he felt not much disposed to study closely...
393612th. (Adams Papers)
I called in the afternoon for about half an hour, at the office. Attended Miss Coombs’s funeral....
393713th. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Emery who has been very ill these four or five weeks, died last night, leaving to the wide...
393814th. (Adams Papers)
This was a day of humiliation and prayer at Mr. Carey’s: on account of his sickness; and to...
393915th. (Adams Papers)
I called in at Mr. Tufts’s to see Mrs. Shaw this morning. I found old Mr. Carter there....
394016th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Townsend, in company with Mr. Andrews, and Thompson. After dinner we took a ride: went...
394117th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews preach’d for us; this forenoon he was lengthy in his prayer upon the late misfortunes...
394218th. (Adams Papers)
This morning I perceived a deal of stirring in the Streets; and was finally informed that the...
394319th. (Adams Papers)
Several of the gentlemen who accompanied the governor, yesterday to Haverhill, went on to Salem...
394420th. (Adams Papers)
I was walking with Putnam in one of the Streets in Town, this evening, when we heard a strange...
394521st. (Adams Papers)
Upon Stacey’s invitation I went with him and Putnam, and two young lads by the name of Greenough,...
394622d. (Adams Papers)
We assembled this evening at Thompson’s. Mr. Greenleaf called in and past an hour with us. He was...
394723d. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Thompson’s, with Mr. Andrews and Townsend. In the afternoon I took a ride with Little to...
3948[24 August–2 September] (Adams Papers)
Here, this journal very abruptly breaks off. I had long doubted whether the utility attending the...
394924. (Adams Papers)
Parson Dutch preach’d. L. White and Mr. Thaxter.
395025th. (Adams Papers)
Return’d from Haverhill. Somewhat interrupted.