Yesterday and day before there was nothing remarkable only that all day yesterday there
was a calm but last night it freshen’d and now we have a Gale of wind.
“Thursday 18th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0001-0001-0007. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 3.]