9 November 1833
adams-john10 Neal Millikan
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9. V.45. Saturday— At 7. O’Clock I left the United States Hotel at Philadelphia, and embarked in the Steam-boat Robert Morris— Mr Potter still in Company. We landed at Newcastle at Half past ten—took the Railway Cars, and in one hour and five minutes reached the wharf at Frenchtown— Then embarked in the Steam-boat Carroll Captain Chaytor and at five in the Afternoon landed at Baltimore— We concluded to stop here for the Night— Captain Chaytor told me that Mrs Adams with her family went down in his boat to Baltimore the day before yesterday and at Baltimore took lodgings at the Indian Queen—the Old Inn newly fitted up and kept by Newcomb— I therefore came and with Mr Potter took lodgings at the same house— They gave me a Parlour Bed chamber, and too plentiful supper, and I spent the Evening partly in conversation with Mr Potter, and partly in musing meditations— Mr David B. Ogden, whom I had met in the Boat from New-York was with us, again to day, but went to lodge at Barnum’s, and promised to go in the same Stage with me to-morrow Morning— We had in the Steam-boats as fellow-passengers also this day, Captain Shubrick, and Dr. Coulter, a Surgeon in the U.S. Navy— There were also several persons, Strangers who entered into conversation with me, among the rest a Mr Greenway, a man of pleasing and polished manners, who had his wife and children with him, and told me he had taken lodgings at this house for the Winter; and that Mr Wirt had done the same— My mind has been in a state of agitation, unable to think composedly since the dreadful accident of yesterday— I dare not indulge the superstitious impressions which involuntarily arise in it, and fear to trust my own thoughts— A danger so extreme— A deliverance so wonderful— Not a Sparrow falleth to the ground by the will of my Heavenly father— Can I be grateful even without presumption? How— O, how can I take it as a warning faithfully to perform the duties of the minutes of life still left for me?

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