1519th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson went to see Miss Roberts at Newtown. I cannot read with so much satisfaction for some...
1528th. (Adams Papers)
We met this evening at my lodgings, as we have changed the evening in order to accommodate...
1537th. (Adams Papers)
Thompson did not attend this day at the Office. Phillips called to see us this afternoon. He has...
1546th. (Adams Papers)
Putnam went last week to Danvers, and return’d this forenoon. He brought me a Letter, which came...
1555th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon A Doctor Young came to our office, for a writ against a number of insurgents. It...
1564th. (Adams Papers)
Blackstone still furnishes me with employment for my forenoon hours; and I this day took up the...
1573d. (Adams Papers)
I heard Mr. Andrews preach. About as long as he was last Sunday. I think he is gaining ground in...
1582d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Farnham proposed to me this morning to join a party, which was formed to go in the afternoon...
159Friday August 1st. 1788. (Adams Papers)
The day was spent in the usual uninteresting manner: indeed it may be generally observed that the...
160[July 1788] (Adams Papers)
It was nine o’clock before I could get away from Braintree this morning, and I arrived at the...
16131st. (Adams Papers)
I amuse myself in reading Junius’s letters; which though the factious productions of a partizan,...
16230th. (Adams Papers)
This afternoon Mr. Cutler called at our office, and perswaded me to ride with him up to Mr....
16329th. (Adams Papers)
After spending the day as usual, I walk’d with Stacey and Putnam. After going some way into...
16428th. (Adams Papers)
I finished reading Bacon’s pleas and pleading: but the subject is so knotty that I must at some...
16527th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews preached for us this day; and was somewhat longer than usual to the great...
16626th. (Adams Papers)
I went to pay a visit to Mrs. Hooper: but disappointed her by having no news from her son Jo, who...
16725th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Andrews came to town last night, and called to see us at the office this forenoon. They have...
16824th. (Adams Papers)
I returned, and once more took my seat in the office: but did little this forenoon. Thompson was...
16923d. (Adams Papers)
I had almost promised Mr. Thaxter to wait till the afternoon; but as there was an appearance of a...
17022d. (Adams Papers)
I went to see Leonard White this forenoon. His father has been unwell for some days past. His...
17121st. (Adams Papers)
This morning I left Braintree in company with my brother Tom, who was going to Haverhill; and in...
17220th. (Adams Papers)
I tarried at home this forenoon, in order to write a Letter to my Sister. In the afternoon I...
17319th. (Adams Papers)
I was considerably fatigued by my jaunt of yesterday, but made out however to read something, in...
17418th. (Adams Papers)
Upon the warmest day we have had this Summer I was obliged to go to Boston, upon a hard trotting...
17517th. (Adams Papers)
The young gentlemen who graduated yesterday were. Benjamin Abbot Solomon Adams Thomas Adams...
17616th. (Adams Papers)
Commencement day. I mounted my horse, somewhat early, and arrived at Cambridge by nine o’clock....
17715th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. West went away this morning; My Father and my brother Charles, went to Boston; whence they...
17814th. (Adams Papers)
Ben Beale came from Taunton this morning; he did not stop, but promised to come and see us ere...
17913th. (Adams Papers)
Weather still extremely warm. I heard Parson Wibird. Mr. Q. Thaxter was at meeting in the...
18012th. (Adams Papers)
In the diverse amusements of reading, of shooting birds, and playing upon our flutes we past the...