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Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0025
Date: 1825-05-25
25. VII:30.
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).
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0026
Date: 1825-05-26
26. VIII.
Cambridge. Richardson calls for me, ride to Worcester through Newton, Needham,
Natick, Framingham and Westborough, dine here, evening walk at Worcester.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0027
Date: 1825-05-27
27. VII:30.
Leave Worcester, pass through Leicester, Charlton, dine at Stur-bridge, Holland to
Stafford, wrong tavern, wretched accommodations.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0028
Date: 1825-05-28
28. V:30.
Leave Stafford, delightful ride through Tolland to Vernon, excellent breakfast,
East Hartford and Hartford, to Tudor, at his house, Wine.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0029
Date: 1825-05-29
29. VIII.
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).
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0030
Date: 1825-05-30
30. VIII.
Hartford. Leave Tudor, agreeable visit, ride up the course of the river, beautiful
country, Windsor, Suffield, West Springfield to Springfield, meet Dwight, ride
horseback.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0005-0031
Date: 1825-05-31
31. VIII.
Springfield. Armory U.S., dine with Dwight, pleasant, evening ride to
Northampton.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0001
Date: 1825-06-01
June. 1825. Wednesday. 1. VIII.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0002
Date: 1825-06-02
2. VIII.
Northampton. Weather rainy, leave it and pass through Amherst to Belchertown, dine,
irritable, scene with Richardson, pain in my teeth, stop at Ware, conversation.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0003
Date: 1825-06-03
3. VII:40.
Ware Factory village, leave it, pass through Brookfield and South Brookfield to
Spencer, execrable dinner, through Leicester to Worcester, pleasant day, pain in my
teeth.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0004
Date: 1825-06-04
4. VIII.
Leave Worcester, rain and uncomfortable, Westborough to Framingham, good dinner,
return to Cambridge, evening, Sheafe, agreeable conversation.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0005
Date: 1825-06-05
5. VIII.
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Mr. Gilman, return to old habits, weather cold,
fires, conversation with Sheafe, about Lothrop and others, our conclusions.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0006
Date: 1825-06-06
6. VI.
Prayers, a Miss, weather unpleasant, at home all day, Traits of Nature, Miss
Burney,1 very quiet. Artillery Election.
1. Sarah H. Burney, Traits of Nature: A Novel, 5 vols.,
London, 1812.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0007
Date: 1825-06-07
7. VI.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0008
Date: 1825-06-08
8. VIII.
Missed Prayers and Dr. Webster, attended Dr. Bigelow and Judge Parker, ride with
Sheafe, Neponset, Billiards, my Uncle, return to Boston, Theatre, Tom and Jerry,
Exchange, Supper, late return.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0009
Date: 1825-06-09
9. VIII.
Missed Prayers and Lectures, ride with Richardson, Billiards at the Franklin Hotel,
Dedham, Howard and Sheafe, hot and dull, Boston, Museum,1 Exchange, Supper, late return.
1. The Boston Museum, on what was called Conduit Street, between the conduit and
Roebuck Passage, for the exhibition of “curious and rare objects” (Shurtleff, Description of
Boston, p. 402).
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0010
Date: 1825-06-10
10. VIII.
Missed Prayers and Lectures, attended Dr. Bigelow, afternoon ride with Richardson,
long ride, Franklin Hotel, billiards, early return and quiet evening.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0011
Date: 1825-06-11
11. VIII.
Missed Prayers, and Lecture, quiet day at home, afternoon ride with Sheafe to
Woburn Pavillion, return, thunder storm, darkness and fire flies, arrive safe.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0012
Date: 1825-06-12
12. VIII:30.
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Dr. Kirkland, quiet at home, conversation with
Richardson and Sheafe, argument, Nahant.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0013
Date: 1825-06-13
13. VII:30.
Missed Prayers, ride with Sheafe to Nahant, Nine pins, dress for dinner, no
company, Mrs. Hammond, fishing, billiards, quiet evening.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0014
Date: 1825-06-14
14. VII.
Nahant, Fishing and Billiards, Company, Prescott, Rowe and others, disgusting,
return to fishing, quiet evening, Picquet with Sheafe.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0015
Date: 1825-06-15
15. VII:15.
Nahant, Billiards, arrival of Richardson and Howard shortly after, dinner, large
company, Lothrop, our feelings, Cod fishing, boat, qualmish, ride to Lynn,
conversation with Richardson, evening, Supper, very jovial.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0016
Date: 1825-06-16
16. VII.
Rain, leave Nahant, Lynn, Cambridge, thence with Sheafe to Boston, dine at the
Exchange Coffee House, crowd, George, return to Cambridge.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0017
Date: 1825-06-17
17. VI.
Prayers, no lecture, ride to Charlestown with Richardson, Bunker Hill, Mr.
Webster’s address,1 crowd, to Boston, Franklin
Hotel, billiards, return to Cambridge fatigued.
1. Daniel Webster made the principal address at the laying of the cornerstone of the
Bunker Hill monument. It was printed as An Address Delivered at
the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, 1825,
and went through numerous editions.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0018
Date: 1825-06-18
18. VII:30.
Missed Prayers, and Lecture, at home all day, quiet, Rothelan,1 reflection, evening at Sheafe’s, conversation.
1. John Galt, Rothelan: A Romance of the English Histories, 3
vols., Edinburgh, 1824.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0019
Date: 1825-06-19
19. VIII.
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Mr. Colman, figures, evening, to Boston with Richardson,
Boston Common, Supper at the Exchange and return.
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Date: 1825-06-20
20. VIII:30.
Missed Prayers and exercises, to Boston with Sheafe, dine at the Exchange, ride to
Savin Hill, Billiards, return to Boston, Theatre, Genl. La Fayette, Supper, return
late.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0021
Date: 1825-06-21
21. IX.
Missed Prayers and exercises, ride with Howard, Roxbury, Strawberries, return,
election of officers for Company, Corn. McLean, to Boston with Richardson, Exchange,
return.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0022
Date: 1825-06-22
22. VIII.
Missed Prayers and exercises, party to the Blue Hills,1 ride with Richardson, Champagne, Howard and Sheafe, return
early.
1. In Milton.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0023
Date: 1825-06-23
23. VIII:30.
Missed Prayers and exercises, to Boston with Richardson, dine at Rouillard’s,
George, to Neponset, billiards, return to Cambridge.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0024
Date: 1825-06-24
24. VII:30.
Missed Prayers and exercises, morning at home, afternoon Declamation, ride with
Richardson to Woburn, thence to Boston, return late to Cambridge.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0025
Date: 1825-06-25
25. VII:30.
Missed Prayers, unpleasant weather, at home all day, Juliet Grenville, Sheafe
returns, quiet and reflection upon the past fortnight.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0026
Date: 1825-06-26
26. VIII.
Missed Prayers, Chapel, Dr. Ware, Dr. Kirkland, evening, pleasant ride with
Richardson, conversation, Juliet Grenville.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0027
Date: 1825-06-27
27. VIII:20.
Missed Prayers and recitation, Lecture, Judge Parker, Law, to Boston with
Richardson, George, argument. Neponset, billiards, Sheafe, strawberries, early
return.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0028
Date: 1825-06-28
28. VI.
Prayers, recitation, Paley, a review, morning at home, sick and low spirits,
private admonition for negligence, farce, at home, Conversation with Sheafe.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0029
Date: 1825-06-29
29. VII.
Missed Prayers and review, morning at home, Novels, Rhoda,1 ride with Sheafe, conversation, evening at home.
1. Anon., Rhoda: A Novel, 3 vols., London, 1816.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0030
Date: 1825-06-30
30. VI.
Prayers, recitation, Paley, a review, at home all day, finish Rhoda, Otis,
conversation, Sheafe and Richardson, Lyceum Club troubles.
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, 2015.
http://www.masshist.org/apde2/
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