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31. IX.
Docno: DCA01d034
Date: 1820-01-31
Arise, weather fair, go to School. Virgil, Minora, return, evening at Mrs. Pleasonton’s.1
1. Mrs. Stephen Pleasanton, whose husband was Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department from 1817 to 1855 (Lanman, Biographical Annals
, p. 509).
February. 1820. Tuesday. 1. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d035
Date: 1820-02-01
Arise, go to School, Virgil, Minora, Cebes, return, dinner party.
2. VIII:30.
Docno: DCA01d036
Date: 1820-02-02
1. The speech of John Randolph (1773–1833), Congressman from Virginia, is unrecorded in the
Annals of Congress
.
2. Possibly Mrs. George Ramsay, wife of the General and mother of Francis M. Ramsay, the future rear-admiral (Gouverneur, As I Remember
, p. 214, 282).
3. IX.
Docno: DCA01d037
Date: 1820-02-03
Arise, go to School, weather rainy, Virgil, Minora, return, evening at home.
4. IX.
Docno: DCA01d038
Date: 1820-02-04
Arise, no School, hurt my head, Senate, closed, return, go shooting, evening, Cardelli.
5. IX.
Docno: DCA01d039
Date: 1820-02-05
Arise, go to School instead of Wednesday, Virgil, Minora, home, Johnson Hellen.1
1. Three children of LCA’s deceased sister, Nancy (Johnson) Hellen (1773–1810), and Walter Hellen Jr. (d. 1815), lived with the Adams family: Johnson Hellen (1800–
1866
1867
), Mary Catherine Hellen (1807–1870), who later married JA2, and Thomas Johnson Hellen (b. 1809). Johnson Hellen had attended Princeton and was later admitted to the bar (JQA, Diary, 3 Nov. 1818; LCA to GWA, 14 May 1826, Adams Papers). See Adams Genealogy.
6. IX.
Docno: DCA01d040
Date: 1820-02-06
1. CFA’s brothers, George Washington Adams (1801–1829) and John Adams 2d (1803–1834), referred to in this edition as GWA and JA2, respectively,
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were returning to Harvard College after six weeks of vacation (JQA, Diary, 6 Feb. 1820). See Adams Genealogy.
2. Luther Rice (1783–1836), a Baptist preacher in Washington who later helped establish Columbian College (Sprague, Annals Amer. Pulpit
, 6:602–603).
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/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/