John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

166 16. V. Thursday.

We left Philadelphia, at 7 this morning in the Steam-boat. W— Penn, Captain and at 11— landed, and passed into the Canal boat, at what they call the Delaware City.— It was about 2— P.M. when we reached the head of black Creek and there found John Kirk with the horses and Carriage, on board the Steam-boat Carroll of Carrollton, Captain Chaytor— We arrived at Baltimore about 7 in the Evening, and took lodgings at Barnum’s Hotel—The morning was a Clear Cold Northwester, but it soon clouded up, and the day was chilly and blustering, and confined us almost entirely to the Cabins of the Boats— Among the Passengers was a young Mr Hone with whom I travelled last Winter from New-York to Philadelphia— He had now with him his wife and a pretty daughter nine or ten years of age— He introduced to me Charles Clinton husband of his wife’s Sister, and eldest Son of the late Governor De Witt Clinton— There was also a Mr Lloyd, of Maryland, who announced himself as a Son of a sometime General Lloyd, who fought a Duel with Robert Wright— Nephew of a former and cousin of a late Governor Lloyd— He had his wife with him, a beautiful young woman said to be a daughter of my old Schoolmate Benjamin Franklin Bache— Mr Lloyd specially signalized himself by boisterous drunkenness, interrupted only by an interval of Sleep on a bench while all the rest of the Company dined: and by noisy and noxious maledictions upon Benjamin Chew junr. whom he said he would kill, if it were not wasting powder and ball upon such a rascal—for he could hit a dollar at ten yards distance— A more amusing fellow traveller was an old slight acquaintance who introduced himself by the name of Matthew L. Davis of New-York, a man heretofore distinguished, as a political partizan of great activity, but of whom I had scarcely heard for several years— He gave himself out now as a devoted friend to Mr Clay, and he strongly intimated that his influence had decided the nomination, at the Meeting in New-York, last Monday Night— He told me he had been in intimate correspondence with W. H— Crawford— He spoke much too of the publication of Jefferson’s Correspondence— We found E. J. Coale at Barnum’s in Baltimore— He had dined with my Son John at Washington last Sunday—