- Greenleaf Thomas
- Beale George W
- Lunt William P
- Rogers Luther
- Le Baron Francis
- Charles and his wife
Sun rose 6.39.— Fahrenheit 40.
A meeting of the Supervisors of the Adams Temple and School fund had been
notified for this day at Noon. It was two years last August since the
last Meeting that I had attended; and there had been but one Meeting
since; which was at Boston, on the 16th. of
last April.— President Quincy
was now absent, probably detained by the foul weather, a rainy day
having succeeded to a clear morning; and Mr Miller, whose health
is infirm, sent an excuse for that reason— Mr
Greenleaf, Mr Beale, and myself were the
only members of the board present, with my
Son as Secretary— Mr Greenleaf
presented a report of a Committee on the accounts of the late Treasurer
Noah Curtis, who was also the
Town Treasurer, and of their transfer to the present Treasurer, also of
both Town and Temple Corporation— There is upwards of 1500 dollars in
the hands of the Treasurer—chiefly consisting of Notes from the Town of
Quincy.— The present Treasurer is George Nightingale.— Several votes were passed—with the
view to leasing house-lots, on the Hancock, Babel and centre rock
pastures, and to opening the Street through the centre of the Hancock
lot— Captain Underwood has
purchased the corner house lot on which the dwelling house stands; and
there has been some expectation that the town, would finally fix their
new town house there To this however I do not myself incline, and would
prefer that the town, should in no case stand in the relation of a
debtor to the corporation. The Members of the board, and Mr Lunt,
with Charles and his wife dined
with us, but about an hour before dinner Mr Luther Rogers one of
the Committee men from North Marshfield came in with a Letter from
Daniel Phillips about the
arrangements for my visit next Thursday to Marshfield— They now propose
to me to stay there over night and to make it an affair of two days—
This is double double toil and trouble, but I must submit my neck to the
yoke— Mr Rogers has a son named Clift Rogers, residing in this town,
with whom I agreed to go, so as to be on the ground at Marshfield,
between 9 and 10 O’Clock on Thursday morning— This Evening a young man
from Plymouth named Francis Le
Baron, came with a Letter of recommendation from Mr Solomon
Lincoln— Mr Le Baron declares
himself about 17. years of age, and is extremely desirous of obtaining a
warrant of Cadet, at the Military Academy at West Point— I told him the
rules of the War Department respecting the bestowal of warrants, and the
fact of young Wood’s admission
this year, as the Cadet from the 12th.
Congressional district; and that his only possible chances of admission
were the contingency of Wood’s resigning, and a change of the District
under the next apportionment.