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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1

Friday 3d. -

[1779-12-03]
Pleasant weather. A fresh breeze ...

Sun. 5th. -

[1779-12-05]
A middling breeze from the S.W. We ...

Satur 4th.

Docno: DQA01d025

Author: JQA
Date: 1779-12-04
A middling breeze from the SW. This afternoon about four o clock a land Bird came a hovering over the frigate; she being so tired we Caught her. Nothing very remarkable to day.
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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