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Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2
Docno: ADMS-13-02-02-0003-0008-0013
Date: 1827-08-13
Monday August 13th. 1827.
I rode through Boston to Medford this morning. Found Abby quite happy to see me again
and provoked a little at my staying quite so long away. The morning passed in conversation
and after dinner I drove her in my gig to Winter Hill1 where Mrs. Everett lives. Found her looking badly, and apparently in depressed spirits.
The reason is beyond me, but I have my suspicions.2 We returned to Medford in time to meet Mrs. Bainbridge at tea, and a Mr. Breed of
Charlestown3 who was remarkable for a most atrocious deformity in his jaw which projected to such
a degree that the upper front teeth were always out of the mouth. Mr. Cambreleng was
there also, a quondam rival of mine. I remained at Medford.
1. In that part of Charlestown which is now Somerville.
2. Mrs. Everett was pregnant; her daughter, Grace Webster Everett, was born on 24 Dec.
1827 (Edward Franklin Everett, Descendants of Richard Everett of Dedham, Mass., Boston, 1902, p. 131).
3. Presumably Ebenezer Breed, a wealthy merchant who owned a fine residence and garden
in Charlestown, where Mount Vernon Street now runs (Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, 3:555, 4:635).
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, 2016.
http://www.masshist.org/apde2/
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