6 o clock. Calm and cloudy. 9 o clock. It begins to freshen. 6 o clock P.M. A very fresh
breeze. I beleive that we shall have no other sail but our fore sail sot [set] to night.
“Sunday 28th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0001-0001-0017. [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. 7.]