4011760. Novr. 19th. (Adams Papers)
Parson Smith says the Art of Printing like most other Arts, and Instruments, was discovered by...
402Wednesday [19 November]. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Badcocks, with McKenzie. He pretends to Mechanicks, and Manufactures. He owns the snuff...
4031760. Novr. 21st. Friday. (Adams Papers)
This day has been spent to little Purpose. I must confine my Body, or I never shall confine my...
4041760. Novr. 21st. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Finished the History of the Common Law, the second Time. The Dissertation on hereditary Descents,...
405[November] 1760. (Adams Papers)
Pater was in a very sociable Mood this Evening. He told 3 or 4 merry stories of old Horn. Old...
406Novr. 25th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Rode to the Iron Works Landing to see a Vessell launched. And after Launching went to smoke a...
4071760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10...
4081760. Novr. 26th Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Night before Thanksgiving.—I have read a Multitude of Law Books—mastered but few. Wood. Coke. 2...
4091760 Novr. 28th. Friday. (Adams Papers)
I have not read one Word of Law, this Day. But several Points, and Queries have been suggested to...
4101760. Novr. 29th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Read no Law.—An exclusive Property is certainly claimed and enjoyed, by private Persons, in Tombs...
411Novr. 30th. Sunday. (Adams Papers)
Read no Law. Read Bolinbroke.
412[December 1760] (Adams Papers)
I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had...
4131760. Decr. 1st. Monday. (Adams Papers)
I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. And by sun rise had...
4141760. Decr. 2d. (Adams Papers)
Spent the Evening at Coll. Q.’s with Captn. Freeman. About the middle of the Evening Dr. Lincoln...
415From John Adams to Samuel Holden Parsons, 5 December 1760 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical and legal family, to give you this...
416Decr. 6th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende...
4171760. Decr. 8. (Adams Papers)
Began Machiavells Machiavell The illegible word begins with “D” but is not “Discourses.” JA ’s...
418Decr. 14th. 1760. (Adams Papers)
Hunt v. White. Complaint to Coll. Quincy—of a scandalous Lye, made and published to Hunts Damage....
4191760. Decr. 16th. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
Attended the Tryal all day, between Hunt and White before Coll. Quincy, at James Bracketts. What...
4201760 Decr. 18th. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
Yesterday spent in Weymouth, in settling the Disputes between old Thos. White and young Isaac...
4211760. Decr. 18. (Adams Papers)
Justice Dyer says there is more Occasion for Justices than for Lawyers. Lawyers live upon the...
4221760. Decr. 18th [i.e. 19th?] Fryday. (Adams Papers)
I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed my whole Life in the...
4231760. Decr. 22nd. Monday. (Adams Papers)
This day and Tomorrow are the last. I have but one Blank left that I can use.
4241760. Decr. 27th. Saturday. (Adams Papers)
Governor Bernards Speech to the two Houses, at the opening of the present sessions, has several...
425[January 1761] (Adams Papers)
The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
426[January? 1761.] (Adams Papers)
I am an old Man, seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have spent my whole Life, a few...
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
428Draft of a New Year’s Address to His Nieces, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
429From John Adams to Peter Chardon, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
430Jany. 2nd. 1760 [i.e. 1761]. Fryday. (Adams Papers)
The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the...
4311760 [i.e. 1761]. Jany. 2nd. Friday. (Adams Papers)
Nathl. Bayley Administrator v. Nathll. Niles.—Plea in Abatement. Defendant lives on the Castle,...
432Jany. 8th. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Last Monday, had a passionate Wrangle, with Eb. Thayer, before Major Crosby. He called me, a...
4331761. Tuesday Jany. 27th. (Adams Papers)
Last Fryday I borrowed of Mr. Gridley, the second Volume of the Corpus Iuris Canonici Notis...
434[February 1761] (Adams Papers)
I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is...
4351761. Friday [6] Feby. (Adams Papers)
I have now almost finished the first book of Peter Lancelotts Institute, which first Book is...
4361761 Monday. Feby. 9th. (Adams Papers)
This morning, as I lay abed, I recollected my last Weeks Work. I find I was extreamly diligent,...
4371761. Feb. 9th. (Adams Papers)
His Majesty has declared him self, by his Speech to his Parliament to be a Man of Piety, and...
Gridley. The Constables distraining for Rates. More inconsistent with English Rights and...
439[March 1761] (Adams Papers)
Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High...
440[March? 1761.] (Adams Papers)
Parson Smith’s Parsonage. Vid. 6th. Wm. & M. C. 5. Page 60.—Charter Page 6th &c. from Index to...
Braintree, March? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
442March 3d. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High...
443[Marginal Note in Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes.] (Adams Papers)
March 12th. 1761. Another Earthquake happened which may perhaps enable us to determine,...
444March 21st. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Memorandum. To enquire more particularly into the Practice in Weymouth—how they estimate a Days...
445Adams’ “Abstract of the Argument”: Ca. April 1761 (Adams Papers)
On the second Tuesday of the Court’s sitting, appointed by the rule of the Court for argument of...
446[April 1761] (Adams Papers)
Z. tells me, that Jona. Rawson is malicious and cruel as well as conceited. He spights Edd....
447April 3d. 1761. (Adams Papers)
Z. tells me, that Jona. Rawson is malicious and cruel as well as conceited. He spights Edd....
448From John Adams to Samuel Quincy, 22 April 1761 (Adams Papers)
Since you claim a Promise I will perform as well as I can. The Letter so long talked of, is but a...
449[May 1761] (Adams Papers)
I am myself an Inhabitant of Boston, and have I think an honest affection for the Town, and a...
450[Draft of a Letter to the Boston Gazette, May 1761.] (Adams Papers)
I am myself an Inhabitant of Boston, and have I think an honest affection for the Town, and a...