I left Braintree to return to Newbury-Port. Found Bridge in Boston. Dined at Mr. Smith’s. We left Boston at about five o’clock and rode ten miles; to Newhall’s tavern; where we lodge.
“Friday September 12th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0003-0009-0012. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 453.]