Wednesday July the 4th 1781.

This day being the Anniversary of American Independance, all the Americans din’d together, at a place call’d De Nieuwe Stads Herberg, but brother Charles and I could not go. In the afternoon Brother Charles and I went to the Oude Man Huis to buy some things, We went to Madam Chabanel’s, brother Charles went away soon after and I went to take a walk with the young ladies, I supp’d there, and after supper went again to take a walk. I got home at about 11 o’clock.

From Waller’s Works. (Continued from Yesterday) Canto 2d.1

1. The second and final canto, of 54 lines, takes up three pages in the Diary (same, p. 149–150).

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Title: Wednesday July the 4th 1781.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 4 July 1781

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Cite as: “Wednesday July the 4th 1781.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0003-0002-0004. [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. 88.]