Morning at home, Montesquieu, Ben Jonson, walk, Edwd. Wyer, Mr. Frye at dinner, evening, Dr. Thornton.1
1. William Thornton (1759–1828), the superintendent of patents in the Patent Office, who had designed the plans for the national Capitol (DAB).
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.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/