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Friday August 17th 1781. -

[1781-08-17]
Niemersat we enter'd Poland and ...

Friday August 24th. 1781. -

[1781-08-24]
This day at about 3 o'clock P.M. ...

Monday August 20th. 1781.1

Docno: DQA01d203

Author: JQA
Date: 1781-08-20
This day at about 2 o'clock P.M we left Riga, and arriv'd at a village call'd Neuermuhlen at about half past 4, here we are obliged to stop because we found all the horses were gone away; The road is sandy from Riga here, and the land bad.
{p. 101}
 
1. JQA and Dana remained in Riga over the weekend (18–19 Aug.) in order to obtain the passport mentioned in the previous Diary entry (Dana, Journal).
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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