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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.
Docno: ADMS-13-01-02-0004-0006-0020
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, 2017.
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