Adams Papers

Thurdsday [12 October].
[from the Diary of John Adams]

Thurdsday [12 October].

Examined the Laws of this Province concerning Pads,1 Cattle, fences &c. and read in Gilbert. This small volume will take me a fortnight, but I will be master of it.

1. Pad: “A path, track; the road, the way. Orig. slang, now also dial.” (OED description begins The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933; 12 vols. and supplement. description ends ).

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    “Thurdsday [12 October].,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0003-0001-0008. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 48.]