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7th.

7th.

I have been studying almost all day what to write for a Forensic; the subject is so copious, that I find a great difficulty, in shortening my arguments, and making them concise. Charles went down to the Castle.1

1. That is, Castle Island, situated off Dorchester in Boston Harbor, and formerly the site of the fortified post Castle William, burned down by the British in 1775.

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    7th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
    Date
    7 October 1786

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    “7th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0001-0009-0007. [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, pp. 110–111.]