Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of John Adams, volume 3

August 9. 1796. Tuesday.

August 11. 1796. Thursday.
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August 10. 1796 Wednesday.

Billing and Bass collecting Compost. Brought up two Loads of Seaweed and carted several Loads of Earth from behind the Outhouse.

Mr. Howell of Rhode Island came up to see me and conversed the whole Evening concerning St. Croix and his Commission for settling that Boundary.1

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David Howell, a lawyer and a former member of the Continental Congress, was one of the commissioners appointed to arbitrate the disputed boundary between the United States and Canada under Article V of Jay's Treaty ( DAB ; see also entry of 2 Aug., above, and note there).