Adams Papers

1779, Fryday July 30.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

1779, Fryday July 30.

We are not yet arrived to the Bane of St. George. Calms, contrary Winds &c. detain Us. Saw a Whale spouting and blowing and leaping to day in our Wake—a Grampus they say.

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    1779, Fryday July 30.
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    Adams, John
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    30 July 1779

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    “1779, Fryday July 30.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0009-0006-0006. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 2, 1771–1781, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, pp. 399–400.]