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18th. Tuesd. -

[1783-02-18]
Mr. Schiebe and I have engaged ...

20th. Thurd. -

[1783-02-20]
This forenoon I went and pay'd a ...

19th. Wednesd.

Docno: DQA01d548

Author: JQA
Date: 1783-02-19
This forenoon Mr. Heiliger;1 a Gentleman from the Danish West India's, and who has liv'd in America some time, came to see me. The wind continues still bad.
 
1. John Heyliger (sometimes Hyleger or Heiliger), a member of a trading and planting family from St. Croix with New York connections; JQA later recalled that he “was under many obligations” to Heyliger during his three-week stay in Copenhagen (entry for 10 Aug. 1785, below; NYHS, Colls., 14 [1905]:270.)
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/