Browsing documents from 1758
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5 October, 1758, JA
| Yesterday arrived here from Worcester. I am this Day about beginning ...
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6 October, 1758, JA
| Rose about sun rise. Unpitched a Load of Hay. Translated 2 Leaves more of ...
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7 October, 1758, JA
| Read in Gilbert. Rode with Webb to Mr. Cranche’s. Dined and drank Tea with ...
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8 October, 1758, JA
| Read a few Leaves in Baxters Enquiry into the Nature of the human Soul. He ...
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9 October, 1758, JA
| Read in Gilberts Tenures. I must and will make that Book familiar to me. ...
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10 October, 1758, JA
| Read in Gilbert. I read him slowly, but I gain Ideas and Knowledge as I go ...
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11 October, 1758, JA
| Rode to Boston. Conversed with Ned Quincy and Saml., Peter Chardon &c. By ...
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12 October, 1758, JA
| Examined the Laws of this Province concerning Pads, Cattle, fences &c. and ...
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13 October, 1758, JA
| Read Gilbert. Went in the Evening to Coll. Quincys. Heard a Tryal before ...
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16 October, 1758, JA
| Read a few Pages in Gilbert. I proceed very slowly. ...
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17 October, 1758, JA
| Read in Gilbert. Went to Monatiquot to see the Raising of the new Meeting ...
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18 October, 1758, JA
| Went to Boston. ...
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19 October, 1758, JA
| I borrowed yesterday of Quincy, the 1st Volume of Batista Angeloni’s ...
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21 October, 1758, JA
| Rose with the sun. Brot up the Horse and took a Ride over Penns Hill, as ...
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22 October, 1758, JA
| Conversed with Capt. Thatcher about commercial affairs.—When he receives a ...
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23 October, 1758, JA
| ...
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24 October, 1758, JA
| Rode to Boston. Arrived about 1/2 after 10. Went into the Court House, and ...
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25 October, 1758, JA
| Went in the morning to Mr. Gridleys, and asked the favour of his Advice ...
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26 October, 1758, JA
| Went in the morning to wait on Mr. Prat. He inquired if I had been sworn ...
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31 October, 1758, JA
| Set down, and recollected my self, and read a little in Van Muyden, a ...
These documents span several days:
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October, 1758 — October, 1758, JA
to Crawford, William | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 91, with identifying note on the recipient ...
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October, 1758 — October, 1758, JA
to Dalton, Tristram | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 65–66. ...
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October, 1758 — October, 1758, JA
to Wentworth, John | I resume with Pleasure my long neglected Pen upon this opportunity by Mr. ...
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October, 1758 — October, 1758, JA
to Wentworth, John | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 64–65. It is difficult to believe that ...
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27 October, 1758 — 30 October, 1758, JA
| All Spent in absolute Idleness, or what is worse, gallanting the Girls. ...
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October, 1758 — October, 1758, JA
to Crawford, William | How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet ...
November
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1 November, 1758, JA
| Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. ...
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2 November, 1758, JA
| Rode as far as Smelt Brook. Breakfasted, made my fire and am now set down ...
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5 November, 1758, JA
| Drank Tea at Coll. Quincy’s. He read to me a Letter Coll. Gouch wrote him ...
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6 November, 1758, JA
| Went to Town. Went to Mr. Gridleys office, but he had not returned to Town ...
December
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5 December, 1758, JA
| Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography, 1:61–62, 201–202. ...
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5 December, 1758, JA
| Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he ...
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18 December, 1758, JA
| I this Evening delivered to Mr. Field, a Declaration in Trespass for a ...
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20 December, 1758, JA
| I am this forenoon, resuming the Study of Van Muyden. I begin at the 99th ...
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21 December, 1758, JA
| Yesterday and to day I have read loud, Tullius 4 Orations against Cataline. ...
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26 December, 1758, JA
| Being the Evening after Christmas, the Dr. and I spent the Evening with Mr. ...
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29 December, 1758, JA
| Let me see, if Bob Paine dont pick up this Story to laugh at. Lambert will ...
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30 December, 1758, JA
| How a whole Family is put into a Broil sometimes by a Trifle. My P. and M. ...
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December, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| “O! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of GOD!” ...
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December, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| The Mistery of Masonry not Freemasonry, comprehends the Plaistering of ...
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December, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| 2 Horses—10th. of Octr. 1758. One Pound L.M. ...
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December, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| haud facile emergunt quorum Virtutibus obstatres angusta domi. They will ...
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December, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| For that the said Luke, on the 10th of Octr. last, at with force and Arms ...
Documents with dates across months:
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, 1758 — , 1758, JA
| In 1758 my Period with Mr. Putnam expired. Doolittle and Baldwin visited ...
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, 1758 — , 1758, JA
| Nunquam prospere succedunt Res humanae, ubi negliguntur divinae. ...
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October, 1758 — November, 1758, JA
to Crawford, William | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 99. ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| Shakespeare, in the Character of Lady Mackbeth, and of Gertrude, the Wife ...
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October, 1758 — November, 1758, JA
| Am returned from Boston, and according to my Promise sett down begining to ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| Tis absurd, to for a Testator to say, after he has devised his Lands to ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| Bond to give Deed. ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| What is Wisdom? Is it, to write dramatic Poetry, like Milton or ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| Vulnus alit Venis, et caeco carpitur igni. ...
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October, 1758 — November, 1758, JA
to Wentworth, John | My letters, for the future will come to you, not from a School House but ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| What are the Rules, Criteria, to determine the Merit or Excellence of a ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
| Query. Has any Species of Animals, besides Mankind, ever given Proofs that ...
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October, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
to UNKNOWN | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 70–72 ...
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October, 1758 — November, 1758, JA
to Quincy, Samuel | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 66–67 ...
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November, 1758 — December, 1758, JA
to Cranch, Richard | Printed: JA, Earliest Diary, p. 69–70, from a draft, with the principal ...
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December, 1758 — January, 1759, JA
| Sequestration is when two, or more, deposit a controverted Thing, with a ...
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December, 1758 — January, 1759, JA
| Judicial stipulations are those which proceed from the mere Office of a ...
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December, 1758 — January, 1759, JA
| The general Court agreed to raise 7000 men, to cooperate with his ...