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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Thursday. 6th.
Docno: DCA02d757
Date: 1827-09-06
Returned to Boston this morning with my father and passed it at the office in reading Law. Dined at Dr. Parkman’s.1 Messrs. Francis and Daniel Parkman,2 Everett, F. C. Gray,3 Thacher,4 Everett,5 Clay, Lyman, Frothingham, my father, George and I composed the Company. After dinner, I returned to my room and passed the Evening in writing.
1. George Parkman, Harvard 1809, the Boston physician who was later murdered by Professor John White Webster, lived at 1 Cambridge Street (
Boston Directory, 1829–1830).
3. Francis Calley Gray (1790–1856), a leading Boston lawyer, who frequently represented the city in the state legislature and gave much of his time to raising funds for Harvard College (
DAB
).
4. Presumably Peter O. Thacher, judge of the Boston municipal court, who lived at 10 Chesnut Street (
Boston Directory, 1829–1830).
5. The repetition is in MS.
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/