24 July 1829
adams-john10 Timothy Giblin Family Finances (Adams Family)
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24. IV. Friday.

Adams T. B. junr Field Harvey. Whitney Peter & Mrs Quincy Josiah junr Greene

After Breakfast this morning I called at Peter Turner’s Shop, and ordered a pair of Shoes. Lieutenant Adams was here part of the morning— Harvey Field came and talked about butchering, farming, Quincy Canal Shares, and his Rent— He told me there were about twenty-Acres of my Land, under Lease to him, covered with bushes, and yielding nothing but fresh meadow grass, good for nothing which might be brought over to produce English Hay; which he had done with some adjoining land of his own— It is land formerly overflowed by the Mill-Pond; the privilege of which was repurchased some years since— I walked to the ground in the afternoon and viewed it with Mr Field— The Land has gone to Ruin by bad management, and now will cost more to recover than I can expect it will ever yield— Returning home I met a man named Elijah Hayden, who spoke to me about the same land covered with bushes, which he offered to cut down and burn on the ground for me at half a dollar a day. He is now going down to the Bay of Fundy, in a small vessel fitted out from the Point upon the Mackarel fishery. I called at Benjamin Bass’s, and took the Mortgage to George Veazie, who has executed and acknowledged the release— Bass gave me also the Policy, by which he has insured his house at the Office of the Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company at Dedham, which Policy he had transferred to me— I had taken this mortgage, without thinking of the chances of fire, and this incident with many others shews me how ill prepared I am for that vigilant attention to my own affairs which is indispensable for the good management of them. After returning home, at the high tide, I bathed and Swam from wharf to wharf— Charles came out from Boston, and Coll. Quincy and Mr Greene spent an hour of the Evening with us.

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