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January
February
- February, 1760 — February, 1760, to Sewall, Jonathan | I am very willing to join with you, in renouncing the Reasoning of some of ...
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May
- 26 May, 1760, | Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. ...
- 27 May, 1760, | At home. Read, in Naval Trade and Commerce. ...
- 28 May, 1760, | Loitered the forenoon away upon this Question in Arithmetic. 3 men give 20 ...
- 29 May, 1760, | Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography, 1:128–129. For the context of this ...
- 29 May, 1760, | Rose and breakfasted. Have done nothing yet to day, and God only knows ...
- 30 May, 1760, | Rose early. Several Country Towns, within my observation, have at least a ...
- 31 May, 1760, | Read in naval Trade and Commerce, concerning Factors, Consuls, ...
June
- 1 June, 1760, | Read 2 Odes in Horace. Spent the Evening at the Coll’s. While we were at ...
- 2 June, 1760, | Wasted the Day, with a Magazine in my Hand. As it was Artillery Election, ...
- 3 June, 1760, | This Day has been lost in much the same, Spiritless manner. ...
- 4 June, 1760, | Read nothing but Magazines as indeed an indisposition rendered me unfit ...
- 5 June, 1760, | Arose late. Feel disordered. 8 o’Clock, 3 1/2 Hours after Sun rise, is a ...
- 6 June, 1760, | Arose very late. A cold, rainy northeasterly storm, of several Days ...
- 7 June, 1760, | Arose late, again. When shall I shake off the shackells of morning ...
- 8 June, 1760, | Spent the Evening and Night at the Coll’s. in ill natured, invidious, ...
- 9 June, 1760, | Attended Major Crosbeys Court. Where Capts. Thayer and Hollis made their ...
- 10 June, 1760, | Altho my Spirits were wasted Yesterday, by sitting so late the Night ...
- 14 June, 1760, | This Week has been spent in Business, i.e. filling Writts, and Journeys to ...
- 15 June, 1760, | Rose early, 5 o clock. A pleasant Morning. The more I write the better. ...
- 16 June, 1760, | Arose before the sun. Now I am ignorant of my Future Fortune, what ...
- 17 June, 1760, | Arose before the sun again. This is the last day. What, and who to day? ...
- 18 June, 1760, | Read but little, thought but little, for the N.E. storm unstrung me. ...
- 19 June, 1760, | I have been the longer in the Argument of this Cause not for the ...
- 20 June, 1760, | I must not say so much about my self, nor so much about Hollis and Thayer ...
- 21 June, 1760, | ...
- 23 June, 1760, | A long obstinate Tryal, before Majr. Crosby, of the most litigious, ...
- 24 June, 1760, | Arose early, a very beautiful Morning. Zab. seems to make insufficient ...
- 25 June, 1760, | Went out with the Coll., in his Canoe, after Tom Codd. Rowed down, in a ...
- 26 June, 1760, | Feel indifferently well after my yesterdays walk and sail. I have begun to ...
- 27 June, 1760, | Read 100 Pages in the Spirit of Laws. Rambled away to a fine Spring in my ...
July
- 1 July, 1760, | Went to Town. ...
- 3 July, 1760, | Read pretty diligently in the Spirit of Laws.—Hayden’s Consultation ...
- 5 July, 1760, | Last Night Cranch explained to me, the Water Works in the River Thames ...
- 6 July, 1760, | Heard Mr. Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard. ...
- 9 July, 1760, | Gould has got the story of White and Bowditch. ...
- 12 July, 1760, | I find upon Examination, that a Warrant of Attorney given by an Infant is ...
- 13 July, 1760, | The week before last Salome Pope appeared before Coll. Quincy, to confess ...
- 25 July, 1760, | We contend that the Plaintiffs ought to recover nothing on this Bond, ...
- 26 July, 1760, | This Bond has been at least once and an half, if not twice, paid. The Case ...
August
- 3 August, 1760, | Hollis has appealed. If he prosecutes his Appeal, he shall be paid. I ...
- 9 August, 1760, | Drank Tea at Coll. Quincys, with Coll. Gooch and Dr. Gardiner. I see ...
- 12 August, 1760, | Remonstrated at the sessions vers. Licensing Lambard, because the select ...
- 19 August, 1760, | I began Popes Homer, last Saturday Night was a Week, and last Night, which ...
September
- 10 September, 1760, to Sewall, Jonathan | You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) ...
- 24 September, 1760, | Ephraim Jones, being a Widower and having two Children by a former Wife ...
- 24 September, 1760, | If I am the Proprietor of an House, and I lease it to any Man, and bind my ...
October
- 7 October, 1760, | Waited on Mr. Gridley for his Opinion of my Declaration Lambard v. ...
- 9 October, 1760, | In Support of Complaint in Case Neal’s Action is not entered. ...
- 11 October, 1760, | Neals Action is entered so that I have two Actions to defend by Pleas in ...
- 13 October, 1760, | Attended Mr. Niles’s Court this morning for John Holbrook Junior in an ...
- 17 October, 1760, | What are the Questions, on which Mrs. Bracketts Bars to Danas Actions ...
- 17 October, 1760, | In the Beginning of May 58 Mr. Lambard, the Plantiff, gave a Lease of a ...
November
- 3 November, 1760, | Dana says the Administrator ought not to regard the Disgrace or Trouble or ...
- 5 November, 1760, | Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography, 1:167–168. See above, JA to Jonathan ...
- 5 November, 1760, | I presume upon the common sense of the World that no offence will be taken ...
- 14 November, 1760, | Another Year is now gone and upon Recollection, I find I have executed ...
- 14 November, 1760, | I am just entered on the 26th Year of my Life, and on the fifth Year of my ...
- 14 November, 1760, | The Title is “The History of the Common Law of England.” The Frontispiece, ...
- 15 November, 1760, | Spent last Evening at Coll. Quincys, with Coll. Lincoln. Several Instances ...
- 19 November, 1760, | Dined at Badcocks, with McKenzie. He pretends to Mechanicks, and ...
- 19 November, 1760, | Parson Smith says the Art of Printing like most other Arts, and ...
- 21 November, 1760, | This day has been spent to little Purpose. I must confine my Body, or I ...
- 21 November, 1760, | Finished the History of the Common Law, the second Time. The Dissertation ...
- 25 November, 1760, | Rode to the Iron Works Landing to see a Vessell launched. And after ...
- 26 November, 1760, | Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law ...
- 26 November, 1760, | Night before Thanksgiving.—I have read a Multitude of Law Books—mastered ...
- 28 November, 1760, | I have not read one Word of Law, this Day. But several Points, and Queries ...
- 29 November, 1760, | Read no Law.—An exclusive Property is certainly claimed and enjoyed, by ...
- 30 November, 1760, | Read no Law. Read Bolinbroke. ...
- 22 November, 1760 — 24 November, 1760, | Pater was in a very sociable Mood this Evening. He told 3 or 4 merry ...
These documents span several days:
December
- 1 December, 1760, | I am beginning a Week and a month, and I arose by the Dawning of the Day. ...
- 2 December, 1760, | Spent the Evening at Coll. Q.’s with Captn. Freeman. About the middle of ...
- 5 December, 1760, to Parsons, Samuel Holden | I presume upon the Merits of a Brother, both in the Academical and legal ...
- 6 December, 1760, | Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, ...
- 8 December, 1760, | Began Machiavells Machiavell ...
- 14 December, 1760, | Hunt v. White. Complaint to Coll. Quincy—of a scandalous Lye, made and ...
- 16 December, 1760, | Attended the Tryal all day, between Hunt and White before Coll. Quincy, at ...
- 18 December, 1760, | Yesterday spent in Weymouth, in settling the Disputes between old Thos. ...
- 18 December, 1760, | Justice Dyer says there is more Occasion for Justices than for Lawyers. ...
- 19 December, 1760, | I am an old Man seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have passed ...
- 22 December, 1760, | This day and Tomorrow are the last. I have but one Blank left that I can ...
- 27 December, 1760, | Governor Bernards Speech to the two Houses, at the opening of the present ...