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Thursday 31st of August 1780. -

[1780-08-31]
This morning we got up and I asked ...

Saturday September the 2d 1780. -

[1780-09-02]
Half holiday. After School went to ...

Friday September the 1st 1780.

Docno: DQA01d123

Author: JQA
Date: 1780-09-01
To day Pappa came here and brought me a letter from Mr. Thaxter.1 Pappa Says that the news of the English East and west India fleet is confirmed.
{p. 65}
As I shall have but very few things to put down I shall keep a Journal only the days when there will be something Extraodinary.
 
1. Probably that of 21 Aug. ( Adams Family Correspondence, 3:399–400).
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/