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Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1
Docno: ADMS-03-01-02-0001-0002-0025
Date: 1779-12-22
Wednesday 22d Of December.
Rain'd all day with intermissions. At about 3 o clock PM we went a Gunning with Flamand.
We got but little because Flamand the Consul's servant put a wad into his Gun and
did not put any powder and was forc'd to go and draw it out. Stevens,1 Sam Cooper, brother Charles, Flamand and I went together. I fir'd three times but
once in the Air. I kill'd once. This morning a Spanish Vessel went out and this afternoon
a French Frigate and another French Ship came in, to this Port. At about 6 o clock
we came home and found nobody but Mr. Allen there.
1. Joseph Stephens (sometimes Stevens), a former soldier and sailor, was JA's servant in Europe from 1778 to 1783. In the latter year Stephens presumably lost
his life at sea while returning to America (JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot, p. 533; JA to the Printers of the Boston Patriot [14 Feb. 1812], published in their issue of 29 April 1812).
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, 2018.
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