401[August 1765] (Adams Papers)
Hannah Place vs. Atwood. Introduced into the family at 13. Constant Understanding that she should...
402[December 1765] (Adams Papers)
How great is my Loss, in neglecting to keep a regular Journal, through the last Spring, Summer,...
403Braintree Decr. 18th. 1765. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
How great is my Loss, in neglecting to keep a regular Journal, through the last Spring, Summer,...
404Decr. 19th. 1765. (Adams Papers)
A fair Morning after a severe Storm of 3 days and 4 Nights. A vast Quantity of rain fell. About...
405Fryday. Decr. 20th. 1765 (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. Dined with Mr. Rowe, in Company with Messrs. Gridley, Otis, Kent, and Dudley....
406Saturday Decr. 21st. 1765. (Adams Papers)
Spent the Morning in sauntering about, and chatting with one and another—The Sherriff, Mr....
407Sunday [22 December]. (Adams Papers)
At Home, with my family. Thinking.
4081765. December. 23d. Monday (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. After Dinner rambled after Messrs. Gridley and Otis but could find neither. Went...
409Decr. 24th. 1765. (Adams Papers)
Returned from Boston. Spent the afternoon and Evening at Home.
410Decr. 25th. 1765. Christmas. (Adams Papers)
At Home. Thinking, reading, searching, concerning Taxation without Consent, concerning the great...
411Decr. 26th. 1765 Thursday. (Adams Papers)
At Home by the Fireside viewing with Pleasure, the falling Snow and the Prospect of a large one....
412Decr. 27th. 1765. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
In unforeseen Cases, i.e. when the State of things is found such as the Author of the Disposition...
413Decr. 28th. 1765. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Went to Weymouth with my Wife. Dined at Father Smiths. Heard much of the Uneasiness among the...
414Decr. 29th. 1765. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Heard Parson Wibird. Hear O Heavens and give Ear O Earth, “I have nourished and brought up...
4151765. Decr. 30th. Monday. (Adams Papers)
We are now concluding the Year 1765, tomorrow is the last day, of a Year in which America has...
4161765. Tuesday. Decr. 31st. (Adams Papers)
Went to Mr. Jo. Bass’s and there read Yesterdays Paper. Walked in the Afternoon into the Common...
417[January 1766] (Adams Papers)
Severe cold, and a Prospect of Snow. We are now upon the Beginning of a Year of greater...
418Anno Domini 1766: 1766. January 1st. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Severe cold, and a Prospect of Snow. We are now upon the Beginning of a Year of greater...
4191766. Jany. 2d. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
A great Storm of Snow last night. Weather tempestuous all Day. Waddled thro the Snow, driving my...
4201766. Jany. 3d. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Fair Weather and Snow enough. Major Miller, Dr. Savil and Mr. Joseph Penniman spent the Evening,...
4211766. Jany. 4. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Edes & Gill’s Gazette brought in. I find that Somebody has published the very scene in...
422Sunday. Jany. 5th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wibird all Day. A Sacramental Sermon on “It is finished.—”
423Monday [6 January]. (Adams Papers)
At Home. Mr. Smith and Mr. Penniman dined here.
424Tuesday [7 January]. (Adams Papers)
At Boston. Hampden has given us in Yesterdays Gazette, a long Letter to Pym upon shutting up the...
425Wednesday Jany. 8th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Home. Wrote &c.
426Thurdsday Jany. 9th. 1765 [i.e. 1766]. (Adams Papers)
At Home. Must such a Number of new Crimes be committed, to decide which of these two, Caesar or...
427Thurdsday. Jany. 9th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Home all day. Mr. Smith, Dr. Tufts, Dr. Savil, Mr. Bass &c. here.
428Fryday. Jany. 10th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Humphry Ploughjogger received a Letter from a Friend, thanking him for his good Advice and...
429Saturday Jany. 11th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
A Rain. In one particular, I must confess the Americans have not acted with their usual Acuteness...
430Sunday Jany. 12th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wibird all day, at Evening Mr. Etter, here.
431Monday Jany. 13th. 1766 (Adams Papers)
At Boston, the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas opened. Present Mr. Wells, Mr. Watts and Mr....
432Tuesday Jany. 14th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. William Coopers with Messrs. Cushing, Story, and John Boylstone. Cushing, silent and...
433Wednesday. Jany. 15th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Isaac Smiths. No Company, no Conversation. Spent the Evening with the Sons of...
434Thurdsday. Jany. 16th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Nick Boylstones, with the two Mr. Boylstones, two Mr. Smiths, Mr. Hallowel and the...
435Fryday [17 January]. (Adams Papers)
Came home, and dined, and there stayed.
436Saturday. Jany. 18th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
At Home. The Dr. dined here. There has been a great Inquiry, in some Parts of America, after a...
437Sunday. Jany. 19th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Robbins of Milton.
438Monday. Jany 20th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Leonard gave me an Account of a Clubb that he belongs to, in Boston. It consists of John Lowell,...
439[March 1766] (Adams Papers)
Spent a Part of last Evening with Mr. Jo. Cleverly. He is a Tiptoe for Town Meeting. He has many...
4401766 March 1st. Saturday (Adams Papers)
Spent a Part of last Evening with Mr. Jo. Cleverly. He is a Tiptoe for Town Meeting. He has many...
441Sunday [2 March]. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wibirt.
442Monday. March 3. 1766. (Adams Papers)
My Brother Peter, Mr. Etter and Mr. Field, having a Number of Votes prepared for Mr. Quincy and...
443Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurdsday, Fryday, Saturday, Sunday [4–9 March]. (Adams Papers)
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurdsday, Fryday, Saturday, Sunday 4–9 March .
444Monday. 10th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Last Week went to Boston, and to Weymouth, &c. I hear that Mr. Benjamin Cleverly has already...
445Tuesday 11th. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston. The C hief J ustice not there. A Piece of political Finess, to make the People...
446Wednesday. 12th. (Adams Papers)
Returned to Braintree.
447Thurdsday 13th. (Adams Papers)
At home.
448Fryday 14th. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday and to day the severest Storm of Snow, we have had this Year.
449Saturday 15th. March 1766. (Adams Papers)
The Snow is as deep and in as mountainous Banks, as it has been at any Time this Winter.—The...
450Sunday 16th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Wibirt all day.