Adams Family Correspondence, volume 10

John Adams to Abigail Adams

John Adams to Abigail Adams

ENCLOSURE

Shaw at this place I call N1. Shaw at the other No2

october 30. Shaw No 1 & 2 carting Sea weed. Joy getting wood Trask Hayden & Minos the No leged Negro diging potatoes5 Arnold & Bass spreading sea weed Copland absent. Statson in the Garden—

31 Shaw No1 Bass Arnold joy Minos at the Beach medow diging potatoes very small & slow work— driven of at 12 oclok by a heavy Rain. Spread sea weed in the afternoon shaw No 2 at home getting wood for himself & making a pigs trough Stutson in garden

Novbr 1 All Hands at the Beach medow. left only half a dozen Bushel

2d. sunday—

3d Shaw No1 No 2 joy and Copland splitting Hills Arnold & Bass spreading sea weed, a drisly wet day—

4th Shaw No 1 & 2—Copland Arnold Bass joy & Minos diging potatoes at shaws place

5 all Hands at potatoes stutson Garden

6 ditto—

7th shaw & Howard killing creatures6 Bass & Arnold employd all 252 day in bringing round the Scow— Copland Minos shaw No2 & joy at potatoes

8 shaw No1 & Bass loading the Scow & carting up sea weed joy Shaw No 2 Arnold Copland Minos diging potatoes

9th sunday—

10th shaw & Bass loading the Scow & carting up sea weed shaw No2 plowing captain Beals joy Copland Arnold potatoes