24131st. (Adams Papers)
Miss B. Palmer, came from Germantown, this afternoon, to spend the night here. We prepared to...
242[November 1786] (Adams Papers)
We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming...
243Wednesday November 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming...
2442d. (Adams Papers)
Attended the court in the forenoon, and afternoon, but there were no causes of any consequence...
2453d. (Adams Papers)
Reading, Reid on the Mind. This author in some places pleases me very much; but in others he is...
2464th. (Adams Papers)
Charles and Cranch went to Boston. Wrote part of my forensic; and as I was obliged to support a...
2475th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the morning from Matthew XXIV 13. But he that shall endure unto the end,...
2486th. (Adams Papers)
We recited this morning for the first time in Ferguson’s astronomy. The part which I have read is...
2497th. (Adams Papers)
We had a lecture from Mr. Wigglesworth in the afternoon, and in the evening the weather being...
2508th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams gave a public astronomical lecture this afternoon, relating to the different...
2519th. (Adams Papers)
Had the whole day to myself; as I did not attend the afternoon recitation. Spent my Time in...
25210th. (Adams Papers)
We had a Lecture at 10 this forenoon from Mr. Williams, explaining the theory of the motion of...
25311th. (Adams Papers)
We had another Lecture at 11 from Mr. Williams, to give us the theory of solar and lunar...
25412th. (Adams Papers)
Very unwell with a sore throat, so that I did not attend meeting. Dined with White at my chamber....
25513th. (Adams Papers)
The Class recite this week to Mr. Burr: but I was so unwell this morning that I did not attend....
25614th. (Adams Papers)
We had a meeting of the ΦBK immediately after Commons in the morning, and received White. The...
25715th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Burr went to an Ordination, and consequently we had no reciting in the afternoon. Mr....
25816th. (Adams Papers)
The weather begins to grow very cold: it has been remarkably fine all this fall. Mrs. Cranch...
25917th. (Adams Papers)
Took books from the library. Hammond’s algebra; Burke, on the sublime and beautiful, and Smith’s...
26018th. (Adams Papers)
Unwell, so that I could not do much all day. Finished my elements for an eclipse, and finally...
26119th. (Adams Papers)
I was very sick with a sore throat, and head ache; so that I could not attend meeting. Dined in...
26220th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d almost all day. White set out early in the morning for Haverhill; his sister is to be...
26321st. (Adams Papers)
The second division of the Class, read a forensic, upon the Question, whether the destroying of...
26422d. (Adams Papers)
We had a lecture in the forenoon from Mr. Wigglesworth. Wrote off something upon conic Sections;...
26523d. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all the forenoon. We had tea at Cranch’s chamber; Whitney arrived in the evening; he comes...
26624th. (Adams Papers)
This evening, just after tea, at Chandler 1st’s chamber, we were all called out by the falling of...
26725th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams gave us a lecture this forenoon, to explain several astronomical instruments....
26826th. (Adams Papers)
Attended meeting for the first time these three weeks. Dined at Judge Dana’s. Captain Hobby, who...
26927th. (Adams Papers)
Recite in Ferguson this week. Mr. Williams, this forenoon concluded his course of astronomical...
27028th. (Adams Papers)
The weather very cold. No appearance of rioters as yet, tho’ it is this evening reported that...