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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
[13 August.] 1
Docno: DCA02d407
Date: 1826-08-13
On Sunday the 13th we left it [Ballstown] on our return to Albany and stopped at Troy for the night. Almost all the pleasant company left Ballstown the same day. Among others I should not omit to mention the amiable and handsome family of the Powels of Philadelphia.2 Our regret was not very great therefore, at turning our backs upon Ballstown, excepting that I felt a little distress least it might only open a new scene of adventure. We stopped at Troy that evening and making a mistake as to the Hotel, we got wretched accommodations. In the evening we went to Mr. Dickinson’s where we had a horribly dull evening.3 But these minutiae tease and disgust me. My spirits were sinking lower every day, with the consciousness that I was to be dragged about from place to place with all my woes about me.
2. John Hare Powel (1786–1856), father of the family, was a former soldier, wealthy merchant, agriculturist, and author. He was secretary of the U.S. legation in London from 1809 to 1811 and much later was state senator (
DAB
).
3. Probably John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), politician and sometime Congressman from Troy (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
; Dickinson to JQA, 11 Sept. 1826, Adams Papers.)
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/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/