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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1

Friday 26th. -

[1779-11-26]
This Morning a very fresh breeze ...

Sunday 28th. -

[1779-11-28]
6 o clock. Calm and cloudy. 9 o ...

Saturday 27th.

Docno: DQA01d018

Author: JQA
Date: 1779-11-27
I could not write any more yesterday because a Gale of wind came on which hinder'd me but to day it has abated a great deal. Nothing very remarkable to day. O! I had like to have forgot that last night the Courier lost her foremast and we were obliged to leave her.
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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