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Thurdsday [12 October].

Docno: DJA01d189

Author: JA
Date: 1758-10-12
Examined the Laws of this Province concerning Pads,1 Cattle, fences &c. and read in Gilbert. This small volume will take me a fortnight, but I will be master of it.
 
1. Pad: “A path, track; the road, the way. Orig. slang, now also dial.” ( OED ).
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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