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CFA
1826-08-13
[13 August.]
CFA
On Sunday the 13th we left it Ballstown on our return to Albany and stopped at Troy for the night. Almost all the pleasant company left Ballstown the same day. Among others I should not omit to mention the amiable and handsome family of the Powels of Philadelphia.2 Our regret was not very great therefore, at turning our backs upon Ballstown, excepting that I felt a little distress least it might only open a new scene of adventure. We stopped at Troy that evening and making a mistake as to the Hotel, we got wretched accommodations. In the evening we went to Mr. Dickinson’s where we had a horribly dull evening.3 But these minutiae tease and disgust me. My spirits were sinking lower every day, with the consciousness that I was to be dragged about from place to place with all my woes about me.
1.
From D/CFA/5.
2.
John Hare Powel (1786–1856), father of the family, was a former soldier, wealthy merchant, agriculturist, and author. He was secretary of the U.S. legation in London from 1809 to 1811 and much later was state senator (
DAB
).
3.
Probably John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), politician and sometime Congressman from Troy (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
; Dickinson to JQA, 11 Sept. 1826, Adams Papers.)