Diary of John Adams, volume 2

1774 Saturday. Octr. 15.

1774. Monday Octr. 17.

1774 Sunday. Octr. 16. JA 1774 Sunday. Octr. 16. Adams, John
1774 Sunday. Octr. 16.

Staid at Home all day. Very busy in the necessary Business of putting the Proceedings of the Congress into Order.1

1.

That is, the final version of the Declaration of Rights? See entry of 14 Oct., note 2, above. So far as the Journal shows, the Declaration had been approved on 14 Oct., but there is evidence to show that some points relative to it were debated in Congress as late as the 17th; see Duane's Notes in Burnett, ed., Letters of Members , 1:77–79; and JA's Notes on the “Canada Bill,” under 17? Oct., below.