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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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41 | Adams, John | 19 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-19 | No man is intirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted... | |
42 | Adams, John | 20 Fryday. | 1756-02-20 | A dull Day. Symptoms of Snow. Writing Tillotson. That is, copying out extracts from the published... | |
43 | Adams, John | 21 Saturday. | 1756-02-21 | A Snowy day. Snow about ancle deep. I find by repeated experiment and observation, in my School,... | |
44 | Adams, John | 22 Sunday. | 1756-02-22 | Suppos a nation in some distant Region, should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every... | |
45 | Adams, John | 23 Monday. | 1756-02-23 | Fair weather. Crawford spent the Evening here. | |
46 | Adams, John | 24 Tuesday. | 1756-02-24 | A fine morning. We are told that Demosthenes transcribed the history of Thucidides 8 times, in... | |
47 | Adams, John | 25 Wednesday. | 1756-02-25 | Fair and cold Weather. An extream cold night. | |
48 | Adams, John | 26 Thurdsday. | 1756-02-26 | Fair cold morning. An extream cold Day. | |
49 | Adams, John | 27 Fryday. | 1756-02-27 | A fair, cold day. Drank Tea at Mrs. Paines. All day, in high health, and spirits. Writing... | |
50 | Adams, John | 28 Saturday. | 1756-02-28 | A raw cold day. Attended Mrs. Brown’s funeral. Let this, and every other Instance of human... | |
51 | Adams, John | 29 Sunday. | 1756-02-29 | Went to Leicester with Thayer. Heard him preach all Day. Dined at Mr. Whitneys. Returned home and... | |
52 | Adams, John | [March 1756] | ≈1756-03-01 | Wrote out Bolingbrokes reflections on Exile. For JA ’s lifelong study of, and his extensive... | |
53 | Adams, John | March. 1756. 1 Monday. | 1756-03-01 | Wrote out Bolingbrokes reflections on Exile. For JA ’s lifelong study of, and his extensive... | |
54 | Adams, John | 2 Tuesday. | 1756-03-02 | A snow fall last night, half leg deep. Began this afternoon, my 3rd. quarter. The great and... | |
55 | Adams, John | 3 Wednesday. | 1756-03-03 | Fair Weather. Natural Phylosophy is the Art of deducing the generall laws and properties of... | |
56 | Adams, John | 4 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-04 | A fine morn. | |
57 | Adams, John | 5 Fryday. | 1756-03-05 | Dined at home, Mr. Barnes dined here, drank Tea, and spent the evening at Coll. Chandlers. The... | |
58 | Adams, John | 6 Saturday. | 1756-03-06 | Rose 1/2 after 4. A clowdy morn. Wrote Bolinbrokes letter on retirement and study. | |
59 | Adams, John | 7 Sunday. | 1756-03-07 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all day. Spent the Evening and supped at Mr. Greenes, with Thayer. Honesty,... | |
60 | Adams, John | 8 Monday. | 1756-03-08 | Spent the Evening at Major Chandlers. Fair Weather. | |
61 | Adams, John | 9 Tuesday. | 1756-03-09 | A charming Day. Spent the evening up Chamber. | |
62 | Adams, John | 10 Wednesday. | 1756-03-10 | A misty morning. Sun brake out about noon. Spent Evening at Gardiners. | |
63 | Adams, John | 11 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-11 | Dined at the Colonels. Drank Tea at Mr. Paines with a number of Ladies, and spent the Evening at... | |
64 | Adams, John | 12 Fryday. | 1756-03-12 | Clowdy. Laid a pair of Gloves with Mrs. Willard that she would not see me chew tobacco this... | |
65 | Adams, John | 13 Saturday. | 1756-03-13 | Some Snow last night, a clowdy, raw morning. | |
66 | Adams, John | 14 Sunday. | 1756-03-14 | Heard Mr. Maccarty all Day upon Abrahams Faith, in offering up Isaac. Spent the Evening, very... | |
67 | Adams, John | 15 Monday. | 1756-03-15 | I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider my self, in my great Chair at School, as some... | |
68 | Adams, John | 16 Tuesday. | 1756-03-16 | Sat out for Uxbridge, arrived about 12, dined. Rode to Aldridges after Mr. Webb, and brought him... | |
69 | Adams, John | 17 Wednesday. | 1756-03-17 | A fine morning. Proceeded on my Journey towards Braintree. Stop’ed at Josiah Adams’s. Baited at... | |
70 | Adams, John | 18 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-18 | A cloudy morning. Spent the afternoon at my Uncles, and part of the Evening at the Doctor’s.... | |
71 | Adams, John | 19 Fryday. | 1756-03-19 | A rainy morning. Went down in the afternoon, to the Point. Spent the afternoon and Evening and... | |
72 | Adams, John | 20 Saturday. | 1756-03-20 | After breakfast, rode to my Uncle Hunts, dined there, came Home, went to see my Aunt Owen, drank... | |
73 | Adams, John | 21 Sunday. | 1756-03-21 | Vernal Equinox. Heard Mr. Wibird preach two excellent Discourses from Eccles. 9.12. Spent the... | |
74 | Adams, John | 22 Monday. | 1756-03-22 | A fair but cool morn. Mounted for Boston, arrived about 11 o’clock, went to friend Wm. Belchers,... | |
75 | Adams, John | 23 Tuesday. | 1756-03-23 | A fine morn. Breakfasted with Slewman at Prentices, mounted for Braintree, arrived about 1,... | |
76 | Adams, John | 24 Wednesday. | 1756-03-24 | Sat out for Worcester. Dined at Dedham and rode from thence in the rain to Mendon, supped and... | |
77 | Adams, John | 25 Thurdsday. | 1756-03-25 | Rode to Uxbridge. Tarried at my Uncle Webbs and lodged with Mr. Nathan Webb . | |
78 | Adams, John | 26 Fryday. | 1756-03-26 | A delightful morning. Rode to Grafton, dined at Josiah Rawsons. He exerted his rawsonian Talents... | |
79 | Adams, John | 27 Saturday. | 1756-03-27 | The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At... | |
80 | Adams, John | 28 Sunday. | 1756-03-28 | Heard Mr. Maccarty, spent the Evening at Coll. Chandlers, in Conversation concerning Lands and... | |
81 | Adams, John | 29 Monday. | 1756-03-29 | A little hail and rain fell to Day. We find our Selves capable of comprehending many Things, of... | |
82 | Adams, John | 30 Tuesday. | 1756-03-30 | A fair day. Drank Tea and spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams, with Mr. Maccarty, very Sociably. | |
83 | Adams, John | 31 Wednesday. | 1756-03-31 | A cool morning. Drank Tea with the Ladies at the Judges. Spent the Evening at Gardiners with the... | |
84 | Adams, John | [April 1756] | ≈1756-04-01 | A very rainy Day. A little Snow. On this day JA wrote a remarkable letter to his classmate... | |
85 | Adams, John | April 1756. 1 Thurdsday. | 1756-04-01 | A very rainy Day. A little Snow. On this day JA wrote a remarkable letter to his classmate... | |
86 | Adams, John | 2. Fryday. | 1756-04-02 | Cool and very windy. Drank Tea, and Spent the Evening at Coll. Chandlers. | |
87 | Adams, John | 3 Saturday. | 1756-04-03 | Dined, Spent the afternoon and drank Tea at Coll. Chandlers. | |
88 | Adams, John | 4 Sunday. | 1756-04-04 | Heard Mr. Davis of Holden all Day. Spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams. | |
89 | Adams, John | 5 Monday. | 1756-04-05 | A warm pleasant Day. Drank Tea at Mrs. Paines, came home, lodged with Dr. Upham. | |
90 | Adams, John | 6 Tuesday. | 1756-04-06 | A fair Day. Drank Tea at Coll. Chandlers, and fixt a Letter for Cushing, Wentworth, Dalton, Lock... |