August 9. 1796. Tuesday. [from the Diary of John Adams]
August 9. 1796. Tuesday.
4 hands mowing Salt Grass. Finished the Beach Meadow. Trask mowing Bushes to make room for the plough upon Penns hill. T. Lothrop, threshing Corn—Brisler winnowing Barley.
“August 9. 1796. Tuesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0013-0003-0009. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 239.]