Mr. Shaw went over to Bradford, to Mr. Allen’s Lecture. The river still remains in a
dangerous situation; but freezes so much in the night, that the mildness of the day is not
sufficient to break up the Ice.
“9th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0008-0003-0009. [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. 413.]