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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1
Sunday June the 10th 1781.
Docno: DQA01d156
Date: 1781-06-10
This morning I got up at about 7 1/2 o'clock breakfasted and at about 9 o'clock Pappa, brother Charles and myself went to the English presbyterian Church and heard a Sermon; the text was in Thessaloniens 1st: 5 Ch: 17th vs. “pray Without ceasing.”
We got home at about eleven o clock. As we came out of the Church we found Mr. Jennings in the Coach, he said he had been deterred by his barber. We dined at home; Mr. Jennings din'd with us; at two o'clock brother Charles and Myself went again to Church; our text was in the Psalms: after Church we went to Mr. Kaa's to see Mr. Bordly but he was gone out to take a walk; but we found Mr. Jennings, Mr. Brush,1 Dr. Brown, Mr. Greves and two other gentlemen, and soon after Mr. Bordly came in. We stay'd there some time and then Mr. Jennings came with brother Charles and Myself to Pappa's house; the other gentlemen went to take a walk; at about 6 o'clock Pappa and Mr. Jennings went out together, and brother Charles and I, went to see Messrs. Sigourny2 and Ingraham. They were gone to take a walk, but the ladies were at home, we found Mr. Thaxter there, some time after the Gentlemen came home; we stay'd there about an hour and at about 7 o clock we came back again; we found Mr. Guild and Mr. Jennings here; at about Nine o clock we went to Madm. Chabanel's; we found her, and the young ladies at home, but Mr. Le Roi and young Mr. Chabanel were gone out; we supp'd there and got home at about 10 1/2 o'clock. At about 11 o'clock we went to bed.3
1. Eliphalet Brush, New York shipowner and merchant, who returned to America from Amsterdam in late September with dispatches to congress from JA. He and his brothers, sons of a prominent Huntington, N.Y., merchant, owned extensive plantations in Demarara, British Guiana, now called Georgetown, Guyana (Conklin Mann, “Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island,”
N.Y. Geneal. and Biog. Rec.,
67:21, 132 [Jan., April 1936];
Adams Family Correspondence,
4:219).
2. Charles Sigourney, a Boston merchant and partner in the Amsterdam mercantile firm of Sigourney, Ingraham & Bromfield (Sigourney to Aaron Lopez, 6 March 1781, MHi:Wetmore Coll.; JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 2:453–454, 456;
Boston Directory, 1789). See also entry for 19 Aug. 1780, note 3 (above).
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/