Diary of John Adams, volume 2
Took a Walk in Company with Govr. Ward, Mr. Gadsden and his Son, and Mr. S. Adams, to a little Box in the Country, belonging to old Mr. Marshall, the father of three Sons who live in the City.1 A fine facetious old Gentleman, an excellent Whigg. There We drank 177Coffee. A fine Garden. A little Box of one Room. Very chearfull and good humoured.
This was Extracts from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, ... 1774–1781, ed. William Duane, Albany, 1877