Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1

1. William Vassall, once a prominent Bostonian, now a loyalist refugee, whom JA later described as “one of my old friends and clients ... a man of letters and virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except garrulity” (Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates , 9:349–359; JA, Works , 10:214–215).