August 23. 1796 Tuesday. [from the Diary of John Adams]
August 23. 1796 Tuesday.
All hands and Tirrell, upon the Wall—carting Stones and Earth &c. Went down to Mr. Quincys and up to our Tenants with Mrs. Adams. Unwell. Brisler and the two black Boys picking Apples.
“August 23. 1796 Tuesday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-03-02-0013-0003-0023. [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. 243.]