Attended Mr. Shaws meeting; forenoon, and afternoon. Took a walk down by the side of the
river; with Mr. Thaxter. The Situation of the town is very agreeable.
“11th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0011-0011. [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. 322.]