531[December 1769] (Adams Papers)
At my Office reading Sidney. I have been musing this evening upon a Report of the Case of the 4....
5321769. Decr. 23. Saturday Night. (Adams Papers)
At my Office reading Sidney. I have been musing this evening upon a Report of the Case of the 4....
533[January 1770] (Adams Papers)
At my Office all Day. Last Evening at Dr. Peckers with the Clubb.—Otis is in Confusion yet. He...
5341770 January 16. (Adams Papers)
At my Office all Day. Last Evening at Dr. Peckers with the Clubb.—Otis is in Confusion yet. He...
535[Draft of a Newspaper Communication, January? 1770.] (Adams Papers)
“If I would but go to Hell for an eternal Moment or so, I might be knighted.” My dear Children—...
536[February 1770] (Adams Papers)
Rode from Weymouth. Stoppd at my House, Veseys Blacksmith shop, my Brothers, my Mothers, and...
5371770. Monday Feby. 26. or Thereabouts. (Adams Papers)
Rode from Weymouth. Stoppd at my House, Veseys Blacksmith shop, my Brothers, my Mothers, and...
538[June 1770] (Adams Papers)
Rambled with Kent, round Landlord Treadwells Pastures, to see how our Horses fared. We found them...
539Ipswich June 19. 1770. Tuesday Morning. (Adams Papers)
Rambled with Kent, round Landlord Treadwells Pastures, to see how our Horses fared. We found them...
540June 25. 1770. Boston. (Adams Papers)
Blowers . In the Reign of Richard the 2d. or Henry 6th. you may find Precedents for any Thing....
541June 26. (Adams Papers)
Last of Service; very little Business this Court. The Bar and the Clerks universally complain of...
542June 27. Wednesday Morn. (Adams Papers)
Very fine—likely to be hot—at my Office early. The only Way to compose myself and collect my...
543June 28. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Goldthwait . Do you call tomorrow and dine with Us at flax Pond near Salem. Rowe, Davis,...
544June 29. 1770. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Began my Journey to Falmouth in Casco Bay. Baited my Horse at Martins in Lynn, where I saw T....
545June 30th. 1770. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Arose not very early and drank a Pint of new Milk and set off. Oated my Horse at Newbury. Rode to...
546[July 1770] (Adams Papers)
Arose early at Paul Dudley Woodbridge’s. A cloudy morning. Took a Walk to the Pasture, to see how...
547July 1st. 1770. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Arose early at Paul Dudley Woodbridge’s. A cloudy morning. Took a Walk to the Pasture, to see how...
548July 2. 1770. (Adams Papers)
Monday morning, in my Sulky before 5 o clock, Mr. Winthrop, Farnum and D. Sewall, with me on...
549July 3. 1770. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Rose in comfortable Health.
550July 8. 1770 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
This Week has been taken up in the Hurry of the Court, and I have not been able to snatch a...
551Thursday Afternoon [12 July.] (Adams Papers)
3 O Clock, got into my Desobligeant to go home. 2 or 3 miles out of Town I overtook 2 Men on...
552Fryday July 13. 1770. (Adams Papers)
Arose and walked with Patten to see the neighbouring Fields of English Grass and Grain and Indian...
553Saturday July 14. 1770. (Adams Papers)
Arose at 4. Got ready as soon as I could and rode out of Town a few Miles to Breakfast....
554[August 1770] (Adams Papers)
I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,...
5551770. August. 9th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,...
5561770. August 19. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Last Fryday went to the Light House with the Committee of both Houses. Mr. Royal Tyler began to...
5571770 Aug. 20. Monday. (Adams Papers)
The first Maxim of worldly Wisdom, constant Dissimulation, may be good or evil as it is...
5581770. August 22. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Rode to Cambridge in Company with Coll. Severn Ayers Eyre and Mr. Hewitt from Virginia, Mr. Bull...
559[Draft of a Newspaper Communication, August? 1770.] (Adams Papers)
“If I would but go to Hell for an eternal Moment or so, I might be knighted.” Shakespeare. The...
560[January 1771] (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G....
5611771. Jany. 10. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G....
562[February 1771] (Adams Papers)
Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for...
563Fryday Feby. 7 [i.e. 8?]. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for...
5641771. Feby. 12. (Adams Papers)
At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be...
565Thurdsday Feby. 14. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Hancocks with the Members, Warren, Church, Cooper, &c. and Mr. Harrison and spent...
566Fryday [15 February]. Evening. (Adams Papers)
Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts....
567Saturday. Feby. 16. (Adams Papers)
Have had a pensive day. The next entry in the present Diary booklet (D/JA/16), curiously, is...
568[April 1771] (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and...
5691771. April 16. Tuesday Evening. (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and...
5701771. Feb. [i.e. April] 18. Thursday. Fastday. (Adams Papers)
Tuesday I staid at my Office in Town, Yesterday went up to Cambridge. Returned at Night to...
571Saturday [20 April]. (Adams Papers)
Fryday morning by 9 o Clock, arrived at my Office in Boston, and this Afternoon returned to...
572Sunday [21 April]. (Adams Papers)
Last night went up to Braintree, and this Evening down to Boston, call’d at S. Adams’s and found...
573Monday [22 April]. (Adams Papers)
In the Morning mounted for Worcester, with Pierpoint, Caleb and Rob. Davis, Josa. Quincy, &c....
574Thurdsday. April 25th. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Dined last Monday at Brighams in Southborough, and lodged at Furnasses in Shrewsbury. Next day...
575[May 1771] (Adams Papers)
Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to...
576May 1st. 1771. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to...
577May 2. 1771. (Adams Papers)
The Tryumphs, and Exultations of Ezekl. Goldthwait and his pert Pupil Price, at the Election of a...
578May 3d. 1771. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
Last Evening I went in to take a Pipe with Brother Cranch, and there I found Zeb. Adams. He told...
579May 9. 1771. (Adams Papers)
From Saturday to Wednesday Morning I staid at Braintree, and rode, walked, rambled and roamed....
580Tuesday. May. 14. 1771. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday came to Town with my Wife. A fine Rain all night. Captn. Bradford sent his Compliments,...