I did this day for the first time perform all my required duties, and the satisfaction it produces is worth the labour it cost me. And after all the employment kept me from low spirits. In the evening, took a ride with John.
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/