Letter of John Quiiiey Adams 341 Overseers of their political Principles, slept at M' Clark's. Horse on his Hay. 24. JVfitnesi/ay. Went (_my H: and ch) with M C to Framing- ham. Din'd at Cap't Freeman's slept and H: there. 2>-. Din'd at Capt Freeman's: Drank Coffee at Mr Habij'l Savages. slept at Capt. Freeman's H : there. Sally (Jhardon left our^House. 26. Left Capt Freemans after Breakfast. I din'd at Watertown Mr Bemis's. M" C. We call'd at Mr. Dennies. slept at home. H : at Mr T. 2J. M" Cooper taken ill of a Fever p. m. Lord's day. Apr. 28. D Chauncey pch'd, a. ni. I p. m. D. Newell hro't my part of Contribution. 13: 19: 3. O Ten'. Friday /* [j] Afay. V>' Chauncy pch'd Friday Lecture M" C. dangerously ill. Lord' s daw 6 [j] ^^ay. Dr. Chauncy pch'd and administer'd. I pch'd p. m. M C. very ill. Monday. D. Newell bro't my part of Contribution. S — 18 — i. O. Ten' Lord's day. /j'" [fsf] D' Chauncy pch'd a. m. I p. m. Monday. 14. [/j] . D. Williams bro't my half of Contribution — 7 — 5 — 2. () Ten'. Friday, ly May. Continental Fast.' D' Chauncy a. m. I p. m. gave Notice in publick that divine Service w'd be perform'd by divine Leave in our Meeting-house ' next Lord's day. 2. Letter of John Qitincy Adams, 181 1. For the following document we are indebted to Dr. James Westfall Thompson, of the University of Chicago. It is a dispatch sent by John Quincy Adams to the Department of State during the time when he was Minister in Russia. The manu- script, which is in the possession of Mr. Frederick M. Steele of Chicago, was secured in London. It is believed to have been inter- cepted by a British cruiser claiming to exercise the right of search. The portions comprised in brackets were written in cipher, and have been translated for Doctor Thompson by a clerk in the Department of State. The translation had to be made out, syllable by syllable, from old letters, on file among the early records, in which the same cipher is used ; for the Department does not possess a copy of the cipher code then employed. For the subject-matter, see Memoirs of John Qidttcy Adams, Vol. l., passim. ^Journals, 1776, p. 93 ; Diary of John Tudor, p. 63. '- During the siege, Braule Street Church had been used by the British " for a
