- Briesler John
- Gray Thomas D.D.
- Whitney George
- Rowley
- Greenleaf E. Price
Vain attempt again to see the rising of Sirius.— Walk round by the
Meeting house 11 Minutes, and the corner of Mr. Lunt’s House, 15. up
the hill to Charles’s, and there
at the North-east corner pillar observed the rising Sun, at the South
Corner of a small house on the summit of an Eastern hill.— Then came
home, and wrote the journal of yesterday— Received two sheets of the
pamphlet Speech which I revised, and enclosed back to Mr Gales
Received also several Anti-Slavery pamphlets, and two or three for
my wife, doubtless
from
574from Miss Sarah M.
Grimké— These with George N.
Briggs’s Address to his Constituents, declining a
re-election to Congress, with the interval for Breakfast, and hearing
my three
Granddaughters read 2 chapters in the New Testament, and 2
in the Apocrypha stole away the morning hours— Mr John
Briesler came to request a certificate of the marriage of
his father and mother, which he wished as Evidence
to obtain a pension for his mother— They were married in London while
living with my father and mother; but they have no certificate
of the marriage. He says there is an entry in the family Bible, by his
father made some years after, and giving the date as of the first week
in September 1787. and Mrs Briesler says
that it was at Marylebone Church.— I gave him a certificate as by
hearsay from my father and mother— This he thought would be sufficient
for the Judge of Probate who
held his Court here this day.— Morning visits, by Dr. T. Gray
of Jamaica Plains Roxbury, and his Colleague and Son in Law, George Whitney— At Noon I went to
the Post Office, and delivered the packet for Mr Gales containing the two revised sheets for the pamphlet—
Then to the Office of the Quincy Patriot, where Mr Greene
was just leaving it to go to dinner, but returned to it with me— He said
he would have it ready for my revisal by Friday Morning— Mr Rowley
a Varnisher of Gilt Picture frames was here all the after part of the
day—dined with us, and varnished over our gilt picture frames and some
of the Portraits— The varnish is a secret of his own invention— Charles
also dined with us. E. Price
Greenleaf was here this afternoon, and visited with me, my
garden and nursery. The young trees are perishing one after the other by
the drought—others stunted by insects. I went over to Charles’s House to
see the Sunset, but was five minutes too late— His wife and Mary went this afternoon to Boston, and
returned just before the Evening Bell— I read a few pages of Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott.