Stay’d at home all day. Mr. Artaud went on hunting. In the forenoon Mr. D. went and took a
walk; and in the afternoon to Mr. Wolff’s. Thermometer 19 degrees. heat. Thunder shower in
the afternoon. Cleared up afterwards.
“16th. Thursday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0006-0016. [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. 127.]