400113. (Adams Papers)
Went to Milton. Put up books.
4002Tuesday October 14th. (Adams Papers)
My occupations have been very regular, and similar for a week past. Last Thursday night I again experienced a total want of sleep. By the help however of medecine and of constant exercice I think I am in a way to recover. This evening, my This entry, incomplete at the bottom of the page, is the last in D/JQA/12 until 6 Sept. 1789. In JQA ’s line-a-day entry, he adds: “Charles and Tom. Mr. and...
400315. (Adams Papers)
Company to dine. Mr. B. &c.
400416. (Adams Papers)
Dr. Tufts &c. Mr. Shaw went to Hghm.
400517. (Adams Papers)
Fine weather. Gunning with Tom. Townsend.
400618. (Adams Papers)
Madam and Tom went to Boston. Violent Thunder.
400719. (Adams Papers)
Meeting to hear Mr. Wibird. W. Cranch. And rews .
400820. (Adams Papers)
Cranch went to Boston. Rain.
400921. (Adams Papers)
Variable weather. Gibbon’s history.
401022. (Adams Papers)
Rode my horse. Andrews went towards Nby Pt.
401123. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Russell’s and returned at Night.
401224. (Adams Papers)
Gunning in the morning with Charles. Tired.
401325. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter. Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mr. Shaw.
401426. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Shaw. Cranch and Phillips.
401527. (Adams Papers)
Splendid parade. Much company. Several regiments of troops from Boston were reviewed by Gov. Hancock and other dignitaries at Braintree (Massachusetts Centinel , 29 Oct.).
401628. (Adams Papers)
Company gone. Went to Mr. Cranch’s.
401729. (Adams Papers)
Went with Tom to Cambridge. Returned.
401830. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. went to Boston. Charles to Cambridge.
401931. (Adams Papers)
Mr. A. returned. Company at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Storer. C. Storer &c.
4020[November 1788] (Adams Papers)
Rode as usual; and read Gibbon &c. General Knox dined with us. P. M. After “P.M.” follows in shorthand “no meeting.” Cicero de Senectute. Getting well. Cicero’s Cato Major de Senectute , or Essay on Old Age. Went to Boston with Mrs. Cranch. Returned. W. Cranch came from Boston. Fine weather. Evening at Mrs. Quincy’s. Parson Wiberd. The entry concludes with shorthand for “no feeling.” Mr. and...
4021November 1. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Rode as usual; and read Gibbon &c.
40222. (Adams Papers)
General Knox dined with us. P. M. After “P.M.” follows in shorthand “no meeting.”
40233. (Adams Papers)
Cicero de Senectute. Getting well. Cicero’s Cato Major de Senectute , or Essay on Old Age.
40244. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston with Mrs. Cranch. Returned.
40255. (Adams Papers)
W. Cranch came from Boston. Fine weather.
40266. (Adams Papers)
Evening at Mrs. Quincy’s. Parson Wiberd. The entry concludes with shorthand for “no feeling.”
40277. (Adams Papers)
Mr. and Mrs. A went to Boston. Dined at Mr. Cranch’s.
40288. (Adams Papers)
Quite lonesome. Mrs. C. came home.
40299. (Adams Papers)
Parson Wibird dined at Mr. C’s. Folks came home.
403010. (Adams Papers)
Madam preparing for New York. AA was planning to visit AA2 ( AA2, Jour. and Corr. Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, Daughter of John Adams,... edited by Her Daughter [Caroline Amelia (Smith) de Windt], New York and London, 1841-[1849]; 3 vols. , 2:105).
403111. (Adams Papers)
Rain all day. Cleared up in the evening.
403212. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. Mrs. A. N. York. Lodgd at Camb.
403313. (Adams Papers)
Returned to Braintree in the forenoon.
403414. (Adams Papers)
Justinian’s Inst. Foster’s Cr. Law. Gibbon &c. Justinian’s Institutes , a textbook of Roman law and a foundation of continental law, originally issued by Justinian I in 533.
403515. (Adams Papers)
Cold Weather. Dr. Tufts this evening.
403616. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Norton. He dined with us.
403717. (Adams Papers)
Went to Milton. Chilly weather looks like snow.
403818. (Adams Papers)
Rode as usual. Read a variety at home.
403919. (Adams Papers)
My health happily recovered. Rain; part of the day.
404020. (Adams Papers)
Went to Mr. Cranch’s. Mrs. C. gone to Boston.
404121. (Adams Papers)
Letter from Mamma. Hartford. Fed. Senators. Probably AA to JA , 16 Nov. ( Adams Papers ). In this letter, written from Hartford, AA makes reference to the elections of federal senators in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
404222. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. Return’d with W. Cranch.
404323. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Everett of Dorchester: dined with us.
404424. (Adams Papers)
Very warm; rainy, disagreeable weather.
404525. (Adams Papers)
Charles came home from Cambridge.
404626. (Adams Papers)
Wm. Cranch was here. Rode to Milton.
404727. (Adams Papers)
Thanksgiving day. Dull weather.
404828. (Adams Papers)
Bad night. Dined at My Uncle Adams’s.
404929. (Adams Papers)
Snow. Charles could not go to Cambridge.
405030. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Wibird preach’d. Charles dined at Mr. C.’s.