“[May 21. Thursday. 1778.]
,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-04-02-0001-0085. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 4, Autobiography, Parts Two and Three, 1777–1780, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 110.]