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27 Tuesday
Docno: DJA01d017
Date: 1756-01-27
Att my Uncles.1
1. Rev. Nathan Webb (1705–1772), who in 1731 had married Ruth, a younger sister of Deacon John Adams of Braintree. Webb, who graduated at Harvard in 1725, was settled as the first minister at Uxbridge, Mass., in the year of his marriage and enjoyed a pastorate there of over forty years (Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates
, 7:617–619).
28 Wednesday.
Docno: DJA01d018
Date: 1756-01-28
Ditto. Thick weather, and some rain.
29 Thurdsday.
Docno: DJA01d019
Date: 1756-01-29
Still, cloudy Weather. Set out for Worcester, Drank Tea in Sutton, with my class mate, Wheeler and arrived at Worcester about 7 o clock. Supped with Major Chandler. Very miry Roads.
30 Friday.
Docno: DJA01d020
Date: 1756-01-30
Still, foggy, damp Weather. Kept School and dined at Mr. Greenes.
31 Saturday.
Docno: DJA01d021
Date: 1756-01-31
A warm, spring-like Day. Kept School. Lodged at Mr. Maccartys, at night.
February. 1756. 1 Sunday.
Docno: DJA01d022
Date: 1756-02-01
Pretty cold. Staid at Home, A.M. P.M. heard Mr. Maccarty. Lodg’d with him at night.
2 Monday.
Docno: DJA01d023
Date: 1756-02-02
1. This letter to a classmate, who was to become the last royal governor of New Hampshire and subsequently lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (see
DAB
), has not been found.
2. Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814) preceded JA into the law by a few years, and the two became keen professional rivals. The eulogistic phrases in this first mention of Paine in the Diary are not untouched by sarcasm; many of JA’s later references are in the same tone. Paine became a member of the first and later Continental Congresses and a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. His papers (in MHi) are being edited for publication by the Society.
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, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/