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Saturday May 21st. 1785. -

[1785-05-21]
At 6 o'clock in the morning a ...

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Docno: DQA01d778

Author: JQA
Date: 1785-05-22
When we rose in the morning, we were out of sight, of Land. We have nothing now but the ocean and the sky around us. The weather being very fine none of us was very sick: but almost all the passengers felt such qualms as prevented them from eating any thing all day: myself among the rest.
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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