A middling breeze from the S.W. We replaced our guns. We took in the Main, and forsails in
order to get the Anchors ready. The Captain expects to spy Land tuesday.
“Sun. 5th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0001-0002-0005. [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. 8.]