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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2


7th.

Docno: DQA02d270

Author: JQA
Date: 1786-12-07
I have been rather idle, this week, and this day entirely so. This evening I went down with Mr. Andrews1 to Judge Dana's, and spent a couple of hours there. Invited Miss Ellery2 and Miss Nancy Mason, to the dance to'morrow.
 
1. John Andrews, Harvard 1786, who was studying divinity at Harvard at this time.
 
2. Almy, daughter of William Ellery (JQA to AA2, 14 Jan.–9 Feb. 1787, Adams Papers).
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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