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.
395126th. (Adams Papers)
Office business. Takes from reading. Dined with Mr. Parsons.
395227. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons went to Boston. Wrote. Mr. Cabot &c.
395328. (Adams Papers)
Walk’d with Stacey. Curious conversation. Greenough’s.
395429. (Adams Papers)
Funeral. Mr. Atkins. Met in the evening at Putnams.
395530. (Adams Papers)
Rain. Little past the evening with me.
395631. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Prince. Mr. Marquand’s. Mr. Jackson’s. Religious tattoo. At the bottom of the page of...
3957[September 1788] (Adams Papers)
Rain. Pass’d the evening with Stacey. Finished Hume and Blackstone. Little &c. I went over the...
3958September 1. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Rain. Pass’d the evening with Stacey.
39592. (Adams Papers)
Finished Hume and Blackstone. Little &c.
3960Wednesday September 3d. (Adams Papers)
I went over the river with Stacey and Romain upon a shooting party. We had tolerable success. It...
3961Thursday September 4th. (Adams Papers)
Left Newbury-Port this morning with Bridge: we dined at Putnam’s in Dan vers. Very indifferent...
3962Friday September 5th. (Adams Papers)
The assembly at the anniversary of the Ф.B.K. was more numerous than I have known it. There were...
39636. (Adams Papers)
Saltmarsh. Read. Mr. Cranch’s.
3964Sunday September 7th. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The Marquis to Sainneville, commander of the french Squadron now in the harbour, and the...
39658. (Adams Papers)
Company afternoon. Angier.
39669. (Adams Papers)
Went over to Milton.
3967Wednesday September 10th. (Adams Papers)
The Governor with the Captains of the french vessells, the french Consul, and some other...
396811. (Adams Papers)
Mrs. Smith and Louisa. W. Cranch.
3969Friday September 12th. (Adams Papers)
I left Braintree to return to Newbury-Port. Found Bridge in Boston. Dined at Mr. Smith’s. We left...
3970Saturday Septr. 12th. [i.e. 13th]. (Adams Papers)
Breakfasted in Salem: saw Amory and Learned. Dined at Ipswich. We got to Newbury-Port, at about...