Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1

Friday August 17th 1781.

Friday August 24th. 1781.

Monday August 20th. 1781.<a xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" href="#DQA01d203n1" class="note" id="DQA01d203n1a">1</a> JQA

1781-08-20

Monday August 20th. 1781. Adams, John Quincy
Monday August 20th. 1781.1

This day at about 2 o'clock P.M we left Riga, and arriv'd at a village call'd Neuermuhlen at about half past 4, here we are obliged to stop because we found all the horses were gone away; The road is sandy from Riga here, and the land bad.

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JQA and Dana remained in Riga over the weekend (18–19 Aug.) in order to obtain the passport mentioned in the previous Diary entry (Dana, Journal).