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