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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 551 | Adams, John | Thursday Afternoon [12 July.] | 1770-07-12 | 3 O Clock, got into my Desobligeant to go home. 2 or 3 miles out of Town I overtook 2 Men on... | |
| 552 | Adams, John | Fryday July 13. 1770. | 1770-07-13 | Arose and walked with Patten to see the neighbouring Fields of English Grass and Grain and Indian... | |
| 553 | Adams, John | Saturday July 14. 1770. | 1770-07-14 | Arose at 4. Got ready as soon as I could and rode out of Town a few Miles to Breakfast.... | |
| 554 | Adams, John | [August 1770] | ≈1770-08-01 | I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,... | |
| 555 | Adams, John | 1770. August. 9th. Thursday. | 1770-08-09 | I received from Mr. Gill an Intimation, that a Letter from me would not be disagreable to you,... | |
| 556 | Adams, John | 1770. August 19. Sunday. | 1770-08-19 | Last Fryday went to the Light House with the Committee of both Houses. Mr. Royal Tyler began to... | |
| 557 | Adams, John | 1770 Aug. 20. Monday. | 1770-08-20 | The first Maxim of worldly Wisdom, constant Dissimulation, may be good or evil as it is... | |
| 558 | Adams, John | 1770. August 22. Wednesday. | 1770-08-22 | Rode to Cambridge in Company with Coll. Severn Ayers Eyre and Mr. Hewitt from Virginia, Mr. Bull... | |
| 559 | Adams, John | [Draft of a Newspaper Communication, August? 1770.] | ≈1770-08-01 | “If I would but go to Hell for an eternal Moment or so, I might be knighted.” Shakespeare. The... | |
| 560 | Adams, John | [January 1771] | 1771-01-10 | Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G.... | |
| 561 | Adams, John | 1771. Jany. 10. Thursday. | 1771-01-10 | Dined at the Honble. John Ervings, with Gray, Pitts, Hancock, Adams, Townsend, J. Erving Jur., G.... | |
| 562 | Adams, John | [February 1771] | ≈1771-02-08 | Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for... | |
| 563 | Adams, John | Fryday Feby. 7 [i.e. 8?]. 1771. | 1771-02-08 | Met a Committee of the House at the Representatives Room, to consider of a Plan for a society for... | |
| 564 | Adams, John | 1771. Feby. 12. | 1771-02-12 | At a Time, when the Barriers against Popery, erected by our Ancestors, are suffered to be... | |
| 565 | Adams, John | Thurdsday Feby. 14. 1771. | 1771-02-14 | Dined at Mr. Hancocks with the Members, Warren, Church, Cooper, &c. and Mr. Harrison and spent... | |
| 566 | Adams, John | Fryday [15 February]. Evening. | 1771-02-15 | Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts.... | |
| 567 | Adams, John | Saturday. Feby. 16. | 1771-02-16 | Have had a pensive day. The next entry in the present Diary booklet (D/JA/16), curiously, is... | |
| 568 | Adams, John | [April 1771] | ≈1771-04-16 | Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and... | |
| 569 | Adams, John | 1771. April 16. Tuesday Evening. | 1771-04-16 | Last Wednesday my Furniture was all removed to Braintree. Saturday, I carried up my Wife and... | |
| 570 | Adams, John | 1771. Feb. [i.e. April] 18. Thursday. Fastday. | 1771-04-18 | Tuesday I staid at my Office in Town, Yesterday went up to Cambridge. Returned at Night to... | |
| 571 | Adams, John | Saturday [20 April]. | 1771-04-20 | Fryday morning by 9 o Clock, arrived at my Office in Boston, and this Afternoon returned to... | |
| 572 | Adams, John | Sunday [21 April]. | 1771-04-21 | Last night went up to Braintree, and this Evening down to Boston, call’d at S. Adams’s and found... | |
| 573 | Adams, John | Monday [22 April]. | 1771-04-22 | In the Morning mounted for Worcester, with Pierpoint, Caleb and Rob. Davis, Josa. Quincy, &c.... | |
| 574 | Adams, John | Thurdsday. April 25th. 1771. | 1771-04-25 | Dined last Monday at Brighams in Southborough, and lodged at Furnasses in Shrewsbury. Next day... | |
| 575 | Adams, John | [May 1771] | ≈1771-05-01 | Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to... | |
| 576 | Adams, John | May 1st. 1771. Wednesday. | 1771-05-01 | Saturday I rode from Martins in Northborough to Boston on horse back, and from thence to... | |
| 577 | Adams, John | May 2. 1771. | 1771-05-02 | The Tryumphs, and Exultations of Ezekl. Goldthwait and his pert Pupil Price, at the Election of a... | |
| 578 | Adams, John | May 3d. 1771. Fryday. | 1771-05-03 | Last Evening I went in to take a Pipe with Brother Cranch, and there I found Zeb. Adams. He told... | |
| 579 | Adams, John | May 9. 1771. | 1771-05-09 | From Saturday to Wednesday Morning I staid at Braintree, and rode, walked, rambled and roamed.... | |
| 580 | Adams, John | Tuesday. May. 14. 1771. | 1771-05-14 | Yesterday came to Town with my Wife. A fine Rain all night. Captn. Bradford sent his Compliments,... | |
| 581 | Adams, John | Wednesday May 15th. 1771. | 1771-05-15 | Argued before the Sessions the Question whether the Court had Authority by Law to make an... | |
| 582 | Adams, John | Wednesday. May 22. 1771. | 1771-05-22 | At Plymouth. Put up at Wetheralls, near the County House—lodged with Mr. Angier, where we had a... | |
| 583 | Adams, John | 1771. Wednesday 29. May. | 1771-05-29 | General Election. Went to Boston and to Cambridge, and returned to Boston at night. | |
| 584 | Adams, John | 1771. Thurdsday May 30. | 1771-05-30 | Mounted my Horse for Connecticutt. Stopped, and chatted an Hour with Tom Crafts who is very low... | |
| 585 | Adams, John | 1771. May 31. Fryday. | 1771-05-31 | A fair, soft, pleasant Morning.—I believe the Peasants round about the Town of Boston are as... | |
| 586 | Adams, John | [June 1771] | ≈1771-06-01 | Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he... | |
| 587 | Adams, John | 1771. Saturday June 1st. | 1771-06-01 | Spent the Day at Worcester in Riding about with Mr. Putnam to see his Farm. He does what he... | |
| 588 | Adams, John | 1771. Sunday June 2d. | 1771-06-02 | Heard Mr. Wheeler, late Minister of Harvard, at Worcester all day. Here I saw many Faces much... | |
| 589 | Adams, John | 1771. Monday June 3d. | 1771-06-03 | A fine Morning—a soft, sweet S.W. Wind. Oated in Spencer—turned my Horse to grass at Wolcotts in... | |
| 590 | Adams, John | 1771. Tuesday. June 4th. | 1771-06-04 | Rode over to the Spring. One Childs had built a little House, within a few Yards of the Spring,... | |
| 591 | Adams, John | 1771. Wednesday June 5th. | 1771-06-05 | Rode to the Spring, drank and plunged. Dipped but once. Sky cloudy. Activity and Industry, care,... | |
| 592 | Adams, John | 1771. Thurdsday June 6. | 1771-06-06 | Spent this fine day in rambling on horseback and on foot with Dr. McKinstry East and West, North... | |
| 593 | Adams, John | 1771. Fryday. June 7th. | 1771-06-07 | Went to the Spring with the Dr. and drank a Glass and an half i.e. a Jill and an half. My Horse... | |
| 594 | Adams, John | 1771. Saturday June 8th. | 1771-06-08 | Bissill says, there are Settlements, upon this River, for 300 Miles— i.e. from Seabrook Saybrook... | |
| 595 | Adams, John | 1771. Sunday, June 9th. | 1771-06-09 | Feel a little discomposed this Morning. Rested but poorly last night. Anxious about my... | |
| 596 | Adams, John | 1771. Monday June 10th. | 1771-06-10 | Took my Departure from Middleton, homewards, the same Way I went down. Very hot. Oated at... | |
| 597 | Adams, John | 1771. Tuesday June 11. | 1771-06-11 | Rode to Kibbys at Somers but got caught in the Rain—very heavy plentifull Showers—I was much wet.... | |
| 598 | Adams, John | 1771. Wednesday June 12. | 1771-06-12 | Sat out upon my Return home, oated at Warreners, in Brimfield, caught in a cold Rain, obliged to... | |
| 599 | Adams, John | 1771. Thurdsday June 13th. | 1771-06-13 | Remarkable, the Change of Thoughts, and feelings, and Reasonings which are occasioned by a Change... | |
| 600 | Adams, John | 1771. Fryday June 14. | 1771-06-14 | A fine Morning. |