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Found by the editors in John Adams’ Docket Book, cut in half and sewed in. The manuscript had been cropped for binding, but fortunately a passage of the text now missing had earlier been printed by Charles Francis Adams; it is quoted in the note under the Diary entry of 3 April 1761, in which Adams mentions showing the map to Colonel Josiah Quincy, p. 210–211. The map shows seven Weymouth taverns: Cowens’, two Nashes’, Taft’s, Porter’s, Whitmarsh’s, and White’s. Five taverns are located in Braintree: Thayer’s, Clark’s, Wales’, Vinton’s, and Hubbard’s. Not shown are two taverns in the North Precinct of Braintree, Bass’s and Brackett’s, which are mentioned in the Diary entry of 12 August 1760, p. 152. See John Adams’ observations on the evils of taverns, 1760–1761, at p. 128–130, 190–192, 212–216.