There was Company lodged here last night, but went early in the forenoon away. Eliza,
dined, and passed the afternoon, here. Mr. Shaw attended the funeral of the young woman,
lately dead. Several Ladies were here in the afternoon, and Evening.
“18th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0007-0013-0018. [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. 358.]