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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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901 | Adams, John | 1777. Feb. 8. Saturday. | 1777-02-08 | Dined at the Presidents, with Mr. Lux, Messrs. Samuel and Robert Purveyance, Capt. Nicholson of... | |
902 | Adams, John | 1777. Feby. 9. Sunday. | 1777-02-09 | Heard Mr. Allison. In the Evening walked to Fells Point, the Place where the Ships lie, a kind of... | |
903 | Adams, John | 1777 Feb. 16. | 1777-02-16 | Last Evening I supped with my Friends Dr. Rush and Mr. Sergeant at Mrs. Page’s over the Bridge.... | |
904 | Adams, John | Feb. 17. Monday. | 1777-02-17 | Yesterday, heard Dr. Witherspoon upon redeeming Time. An excellent Sermon. I find that I... | |
905 | Adams, John | 1777. Feb. 21. Fryday. | 1777-02-21 | Dined Yesterday at Mr. Samuel Purveyances. Mr. Robert his Brother and Lady, the President and... | |
906 | Adams, John | 1777. Feb. 23. | 1777-02-23 | Took a Walk with Mr. Gerry, down to a Place called Ferry Branch, a Point of Land which is formed... | |
907 | Adams, John | 1777. Feb. 28. Fryday. | 1777-02-28 | Last Evening had a good deal of free Conversation, with Mr. R. Purveyance. He seems to me to have... | |
908 | Adams, John | Feb. 29. | 1777-02-28 | Feb. 29. | |
909 | Adams, John | [September 1777] | ≈1777-09-01 | Fryday the 12, I removed from Captn. Duncans in Walnutt Street to the Revd. Mr. Sprouts in Third... | |
910 | Adams, John | Septr. 15. 1777. Monday. | 1777-09-15 | Fryday the 12, I removed from Captn. Duncans in Walnutt Street to the Revd. Mr. Sprouts in Third... | |
911 | Adams, John | 1777. Sept. 16. Tuesday. | 1777-09-16 | No Newspaper this Morning. Mr. Dunlap has moved or packed up his Types. A Note from G. Dickinson... | |
912 | Adams, John | 1777. Septr. 18. Thursday. | 1777-09-18 | The violent N.E. Storm which began the Day before Yesterday continues. We are yet in... | |
913 | Adams, John | 1777. Septr. 19. Fryday. | 1777-09-19 | At 3 this Morning was waked by Mr. Lovell, and told that the Members of Congress were gone, some... | |
914 | Adams, John | Septr. 20. Saturday. | 1777-09-20 | Breakfasted at Mrs. J. B. Smiths. The old Gentleman, his Son Thomas the Loan Officer, were here,... | |
915 | Adams, John | 1777 Septr. 21. Sunday. | 1777-09-21 | It was a false alarm which occasioned our Flight from Philadelphia. Not a Soldier of Howes has... | |
916 | Adams, John | 1777. Monday. Septr. 22. | 1777-09-22 | Breakfasted at Ringolds in Quaker Town, dined at Shannons in Easton at the Forks, slept at... | |
917 | Adams, John | [Travel Expenses, September 1777.] | ≈1777-09-01 | pd. at Quaker Town 2 1/2 dollars. pd. at Johnsons at Bethlehem 8 dollars at Hartmans Reading 4... | |
918 | Adams, John | 1777. Tuesday. Septr. 23. | 1777-09-23 | Mr. Okeley Okely , Mr. Hassey Hasse and Mr. Edwine Ettwein came to see me. Mr. Edwine shewed Us,... | |
919 | Adams, John | 1777 Wednesday Sept. 24. | 1777-09-24 | Fine Morning. We all went to Meeting last Evening, where Mr. Edwine gave the People a short... | |
920 | Adams, John | 1777. Thursday. Septr. 25. | 1777-09-25 | Rode from Bethlehem through Allan Town, Yesterday, to a German Tavern, about 18 Miles from... | |
921 | Adams, John | [November 1777] | ≈1777-11-15 | At Willis’s at the Log Goal in New Jersey 28 miles from Easton. 1777 Tuesday Novr. 11. Sett off... | |
922 | Adams, John | 1777 Saturday Novr. 15th. | 1777-11-15 | At Willis’s at the Log Goal in New Jersey 28 miles from Easton. 1777 Tuesday Novr. 11. Sett off... | |
923 | Adams, John | Monday. Novr. 17. 1777. | 1777-11-17 | Rode Yesterday from Logg Jail, Willis’s, breakfasted at Hoffmans, at Sussex Ct. House, and supped... | |
924 | Adams, John | Tuesday Novr. 18. 1777. | 1777-11-18 | Lodged at Brooks’s, 5 Miles from the North River. Rode to the Continental Ferry, crossed over,... | |
925 | Adams, John | Wednesday Novr. 19. 1777. | 1777-11-19 | Dined at Storms, lodged last night and breakfasted this Morning at Loudouns at Fish Kill. Here We... | |
926 | Adams, John | Thursday Novr. 20. | 1777-11-20 | To Harrwington Harwinton , Phillips’s 5 Miles.—To Yales in Farmington 5.—To Humphreys in Simsbury... | |
927 | Adams, John | Novr. 21. | 1777-11-21 | To Hays’s, Salmon Brook 5. miles.—To Southwick, Loomis, 6.—To Fowlers 3. miles.—To Westfield,... | |
928 | Adams, John | [February 1778] | ≈1778-02-13 | Captain Samuel Tucker, Commander of the Frigate Boston, met me, at Mr. Norton Quincy’s, where We... | |
929 | Adams, John | 1778 February 13. Fryday. | 1778-02-13 | Captain Samuel Tucker, Commander of the Frigate Boston, met me, at Mr. Norton Quincy’s, where We... | |
930 | Adams, John | 1778. 14. Feb. Saturday. | 1778-02-14 | A very fine Morning, the Wind at Northwest. At Daybreak orders were given for the Ship to unmoor.... | |
931 | Adams, John | Feb. 15. Sunday. | 1778-02-15 | This Morning weigh’d the last Anchor, and came under Sail, before Breakfast. A fine Wind, and a... | |
932 | Adams, John | 1778. Feb. 16. Monday. | 1778-02-16 | Another Storm for our Mortification—the Wind at N.E. and the Snow so thick that the Captain... | |
933 | Adams, John | 17. Tuesday. | 1778-02-17 | I set a Lesson to my Son in Chambauds French Grammar and asked the Favour of Dr. Noel to shew him... | |
934 | Adams, John | 1778. Feb. 18. Wednesday. | 1778-02-18 | Last night, about Sunsett We sailed out of Marblehead Harbour, and have had a fine Wind, from... | |
935 | Adams, John | Feb. 19. Thursday. | 1778-02-19 | Arose at 4 O Clock. The Wind and Weather still fair. The Ship rolls less than Yesterday, and I... | |
936 | Adams, John | Feb. 20. Fryday. | 1778-02-20 | In the Morning nothing to be seen, but soon after another Sail discovered ahead, which is... | |
937 | Adams, John | Feb. 21. Saturday, 22. Sunday, and 23d. Monday. | ≈1778-02-21 | Exhibited such Scaenes as were new to me. We lost Sight of our Enemy it is true but We found our... | |
938 | Adams, John | Tuesday 24. Wednesday 25. Thursday 26. | ≈1778-02-24 | Tuesday We spyd a Sail and gave her Chase. We overhawled her, and upon firing a Gun to Leeward,... | |
939 | Adams, John | 1778. Feb. 26. Thursday. | 1778-02-26 | I have made many Observations, in the late bad Weather, some of which I do not think it prudent... | |
940 | Adams, John | Feb. 27. Fryday. | 1778-02-27 | A Calm. As soft and warm as Summer. A Species of black Fish, which our officers call Beneaters,... | |
941 | Adams, John | 1778. Feb. 28. Saturday. | 1778-02-28 | Last Night and this Day We have enjoyed a fine easy Breeze. The Ship has had no Motion but... | |
942 | Adams, John | [March 1778] | ≈1778-03-01 | Discovered that our Mainmast was sprung in two Places—one beneath the Main Deck, where if the... | |
943 | Adams, John | 1778. March 1. Sunday. | 1778-03-01 | Discovered that our Mainmast was sprung in two Places—one beneath the Main Deck, where if the... | |
944 | Adams, John | March 2. Monday. | 1778-03-02 | A fine Wind still and a pleasant Morning. The Colour of the Water which is green, not blue as it... | |
945 | Adams, John | 1778. March 3. Tuesday. | 1778-03-03 | Our Wind continued brisk and fresh all the last Night, and this Morning. Our Course is about N.E.... | |
946 | Adams, John | 1778. March 4. Wednesday. | 1778-03-04 | Fair Weather, but an Adverse Wind, from the N.E., which ob liges Us to go to the Southward of the... | |
947 | Adams, John | March 5. Thursday. | 1778-03-05 | This Morning We have the pleasantest Prospect we have yet seen —a fine easy Breeze, from the... | |
948 | Adams, John | 1778. March 6. Fryday. | 1778-03-06 | The Wind continued in the same Point, about S outh all Night, and the Ship has gone 9 Knotts upon... | |
949 | Adams, John | March 7. Saturday. | 1778-03-07 | The same prosperous Wind, and the same beautifull Weather continue. We proceed in our Course at... | |
950 | Adams, John | 1778. March 8. Sunday. | 1778-03-08 | The same Wind and Weather continues, and We go at 7 and 1/2 and 8 Knots. We are supposed to be... |