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25. VII:30.

Docno: DCA01d538

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-25
Arise, leave Quincy, Stage to Boston, Election day,1 Boston Cadets, George, fatigue, conversation, walk to Cambridge, solitary at my room.
 
1. The General Court met on 25 May and elected Nathaniel Silsbee president of the Senate and Timothy Fuller speaker of the House. The following day they examined the votes for governor and declared Levi Lincoln elected (Columbian Centinel, 28 May 1825).

26. VIII.

Docno: DCA01d539

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-26
Cambridge. Richardson calls for me, ride to Worcester through Newton, Needham, Natick, Framingham and Westborough, dine here, evening walk at Worcester.

27. VII:30.

Docno: DCA01d540

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-27
Leave Worcester, pass through Leicester, Charlton, dine at Stur-bridge, Holland to Stafford, wrong tavern, wretched accommodations.

28. V:30.

Docno: DCA01d541

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-28
Leave Stafford, delightful ride through Tolland to Vernon, excellent breakfast, East Hartford and Hartford, to Tudor, at his house, Wine.

29. VIII.

Docno: DCA01d542

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-29
Hartford. Tudor’s, Church, Mr. Wheaton,1 dine with Tudor, ride to Major Watson’s,2 East Windsor, Connecticut river, return, evening walk.
 
1. Nathaniel S. Wheaton, rector of the Episcopal church in Hartford from 1821 to 1831, and subsequently President of Trinity College (James Hammond Trumbull, The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633–1884, Boston, 1886, 1:406, 437).
 
2. Benjamin Watson, breveted major in 1814 for gallantry in the battle of Niagara Falls (Heitman, Register U.S. Army ).

30. VIII.

Docno: DCA01d543

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-30
Hartford. Leave Tudor, agreeable visit, ride up the course of the river, beautiful country, Windsor, Suffield, West Springfield to Springfield, meet Dwight, ride horseback.

31. VIII.

Docno: DCA01d544

Author: CFA
Date: 1825-05-31
Springfield. Armory U.S., dine with Dwight, pleasant, evening ride to Northampton.
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