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14 [i.e. 15] Thurdsday.
Docno: DJA01d096
Date: 1756-04-15
Wheeler and I breakfasted at Mr. Maccarty’s. Went to Mr. Dyers.1 Very warm. Drank Tea and spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams, in conversation concerning Christianity. He is of Opinion that the Apostles were a Company of Enthusiasts. He says we have only their word, to
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prove that they spoke with different Tongues, raised the Dead, and healed the Sick &c.2
15 [i.e. 16] Fryday.
Docno: DJA01d097
Date: 1756-04-16
A Stormy Day.
16 [i.e. 17] Saturday.
Docno: DJA01d098
Date: 1756-04-17
A Stormy Day.
17 [i.e. 18] Sunday.
Docno: DJA01d099
Date: 1756-04-18
A Stormy Day. For these 3 days past there has been a severe N.E. Storm. Heard Mr. Maccarty. Spent the Evening at Major Gardiners.
18 [i.e. 19] Monday.
Docno: DJA01d100
Date: 1756-04-19
The Storm continues.
19 [i.e. 20] Tuesday.
Docno: DJA01d101
Date: 1756-04-20
A lovely Day after the Storm. Drank Tea at Major Chandlers. Walked with the Coll. to his Saw-mill Farm.
20 [i.e. 21] Wednesday.
Docno: DJA01d102
Date: 1756-04-21
Charming Weather. The Fields begin to look verdant. The leaves begin to shew themselves on the apple Trees, and Blossoms on the peach Trees. Drank Tea at Mr. Putnams. Spent the Evening at the Majors.
21 [i.e. 22] Thurdsday.
Docno: DJA01d103
Date: 1756-04-22
Cloudy, black morning. Cleared away very pleasant about 9. Dined at Capt. Stearns’s, with the Officers of the Militia in this Place. Spent the Evening at Mr. Greenes.
22 [i.e. 23] Fryday.
Docno: DJA01d104
Date: 1756-04-23
A pleasant Day. I can as easily still the fierce Tempests or Stop the rapid Thunderbolt, as command the motions and operations of my own mind. I am dull, and inactive, and all my Resolution, all the Spirits I can muster, are insufficient to rouse me from this senseless Torpitude. My Brains seem constantly in as great Confusion, and wild disorder,
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as Miltons Chaos. They are numb, dead. I have never any bright, refulgent Ideas. Every Thing appears in my mind, dim and obscure like objects seen thro’ a dirty glass or roiled water. Drank Tea at the Colonels. Spent the Evening at Mr. Putnams.
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/