Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of John Adams, volume 3

September 1. 1796. Thursday.

September 3. 1796. Saturday.
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September 2. 1796. Fryday.

To work again on the high Ways. They have taxed me this Year between forty nine and fifty days Works on the Roads besides the other Farm in Quincy and the farm in Braintree. This is unjust, more than my Proportion, more than Mr. Black or Mr. Beale.1

Stumbled over a Wheelbarrow in the dark and hurt my Shin.

 1.

Moses Black, an Irishman who had acquired the house and farm formerly owned by Col. Edmund Quincy (the “Dorothy Q.” house), and Squire Benjamin Beale were both at this time prominent in town affairs and among the largest property owners in Quincy. See the tax list for 1792, when Quincy was taken off from Braintree, in Pattee, Old Braintree and Quincy , p. 623 ff., and numerous references to both men in the same work.