3981Wednesday September 24th. (Adams Papers)
Lincoln went yesterday for Hingham; I went with Mr. and Mrs. Shaw to Andover. There was a large company at Mr. Symmes’s; and after dinner we had a lecture, the Sermon was intolerably long. Singing remarkably good. We got back to Haverhill just after Sun-set. My Brother Charles with Daniel Russell arrived here this evening. Charles obtained leave to come and see me. Mr. Thaxter and his Lady...
398225. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Noyes. Afternoon with White.
398326. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Thaxter. Genl. Lincoln.
3984Saturday September 27th. (Adams Papers)
Another tedious sleepless night. Charles and Russell returned to Cambridge. I dined at Mr. White’s. And in the afternoon got a little sleep which greatly refreshed my drooping spirits. Mr. French was here in the evening.
398528. (Adams Papers)
Meeting Forenoon. Mr. Marsh. L. White.
398629. (Adams Papers)
Tea at Mr. Adams’s.
3987Tuesday September 30th. (Adams Papers)
The weather was not very favourable, but, as the court of common pleas was to sit this week in Newbury-Port, I concluded to return there. When I got home, I found Bridge unwell. Nothing done at court but preparatory business this day. I retired early to bed.
3988[October 1788] (Adams Papers)
“Oh gentle sleep Nature’s soft Nurse, how have I frighted thee That thou no more wilt weigh mine eye lids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness.” In the present situation of my health I cannot possibly attend at all to study, and this circumstance with some others has determined me to spend some weeks, perhaps some months at Braintree. I spoke for a place in the stage which goes to Boston...
3989Wednesday October 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
“Oh gentle sleep Nature’s soft Nurse, how have I frighted thee That thou no more wilt weigh mine eye lids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness.” In the present situation of my health I cannot possibly attend at all to study, and this circumstance with some others has determined me to spend some weeks, perhaps some months at Braintree. I spoke for a place in the stage which goes to Boston...
3990Thursday October 2d. (Adams Papers)
I took my seat in the stage, in Company with a Lady who came from Portsmouth, and Mr. Vaughan, a brother of the gentlemen with whom I was acquainted in London. It was seven in the evening before we got to Boston. I went to Mr. Smith’s; we pass’d part of the evening and lodged at Dr. Welch’s. Lodg’d at Mr. Smith’s.