Set away from St. Just at about 7 ½ o’clock; dined at Amiens; the Capital of the Province
of Picardy: stopp’d at Abbeville; after having rode 11. posts.
“Tuesday. 21st.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0011-0003. [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. 195.]