We dined at Mr. Williamson’s; a merchant of this place; in the evening we went to the
assembly where we stay’d till about 1 o’clock in the morning, very stormy windy weather the
greatest part of the day.
“23d.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0001-0020. [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. 166.]