- Spear William
Deacon Spear was here this
morning, and I gave him the Assignment of my pew N. 75 in the Stone
Meeting-house to Job Faxon, for which
he is to give me his note payable the 1st.
of next February, without interest; and he is to take possession, at the
payment of the Note— Charles and
his wife went to Boston and
dined there. Mary and Elizabeth C. Adams took an early
dinner, and went in the Carriage, at 2. O’Clock— Charles returned alone
about 5. O’Clock, and Mary, Charles’s wife and Elizabeth in the Evening
shortly before the bell for nine— I cleared from weeds a plat in the
seminary, between the two old plum trees, and enlarged its borders—
There are upon it 12 Apple, and 2 Pear seedlings of last year’s growth—
Small, and choaked with weeds— French is digging round the seminary transplanted fruit
trees of the last three years; none of which are dead, and none of which
flourish— Josiah Adams junr. gave me a cane composed of
25 different kinds of wood strung upon a staff of Oak; and glued at the
joints, all of the natural colour of each kind of the wood, with one
ringlet of ivory, and two of the kinds of wood twice used— I lost the
day for writing, by getting engaged in the perusal of the copies of
my mother’s Letters—written
during the revolutionary War, which absorbed my attention and affected
my feelings beyond expression. This is no waste of time—yet it diverted
me from that which was my proper occupation.