Arise, morning at home, Shakespeare, Junius, John sick, dinner {p. 7}for Genl. Lafayette, Genl. Brown, Jessup, Maj. Thayer and Capt. Nelson,1 Paragon Steam Boat, evening, Wm. Lee.
1. In addition to General Jacob Brown, the guests were Quartermaster General Thomas Sidney Jesup (1788–1860), Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), the superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Joseph S. Nelson, of the third infantry regiment (DAB; Heitman, Register U.S. Army).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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