Jan.-May: Susanna Boylston Adams Hall suffers from pneumonia throughout much of the winter and spring. AA despairs of her life in February, but Hall recovers—despite a relapse in May— and lives for another three years.

15 April: George Washington asks John Jay to negotiate a commercial treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Jay accepts, and the Senate confirms his appointment on 19 April.

28 April: TBA travels through the interior of Pennsylvania with Jared Ingersoll, visiting West Chester, York, Lancaster, Carlisle, and Reading. He returns to Philadelphia on 1 June.

30 May: The Senate unanimously consents to JQA’s appointment as U.S. minister resident to the Netherlands.

31 May: JA leaves Philadelphia for Quincy.

9 June: The 1st session of the 3d Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

30 June: JQA leaves Quincy and travels to Philadelphia to prepare for his new position in the Netherlands; he remains there until 8 August.

15 July: CA visits Quincy, arriving in time to attend Harvard’s commencement on 16 July. He arrives back in New York on 16 August.

16 July: The Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania with protesters, angry about the excise tax on domestically distilled spirits, marching on tax collector John Neville’s home.

27–28 July: In the so-called Thermidorian reaction, Maximilien Robespierre and 82 other Jacobin leaders in France are arrested and guillotined.

7 Aug.: As the Whiskey Rebellion escalates, George Washington 486 issues a proclamation calling up a militia to suppress the uprising. Over the next few months, the militia marches out and successfully quells the resistance, concluding with the arrest of the remaining rebels on 13 November.

20 Aug.: The Battle of Fallen Timbers concludes the northwestern war with Native Americans.

Aug.: William Smith Shaw begins his education at Harvard.

17 Sept.: JQA and TBA depart for England aboard the ship Alfred. They arrive in Deal on 14 October and in London on the 15th.

29 Sept.: John Shaw dies at age 47.

Fall: William Cranch moves from Haverhill to Washington, D.C., to begin work as an agent for James Greenleaf, his future brother-in-law.

28 Oct.: JQA and TBA leave London, arriving at The Hague on the 31st.

Oct.: CA takes and passes his councillor’s examinations at Albany.

1 Nov.: JA leaves Quincy to return to Philadelphia.

3 Nov.: The 2d session of the 3d Congress convenes in Philadelphia; it continues until 3 March 1795.

19 Nov.: The Jay Treaty between the United States and Britain is signed in London.

28 Nov.: Baron von Steuben dies.

28 Dec.: Henry Knox resigns as secretary of war; he is replaced by Timothy Pickering.

mid-Jan.: CA visits JA in Philadelphia, returning to New York on 22 January.

18 Jan.: William V, stadholder of the Netherlands, goes into exile in the face of the advancing French Army; two days later the army captures Amsterdam and establishes the Batavian Republic.

28 Jan.: Caroline Amelia Smith, daughter of AA2 and WSS, is born in New York City.

31 Jan.: Alexander Hamilton resigns as secretary of the treasury; he is replaced by Oliver Wolcott.

Jan.: Betsy Quincy Shaw comes to live with the Adamses in Quincy by this time. She remains with them for nearly a year.

19 Feb.: JA leaves Philadelphia for Quincy.

7 March: The Jay Treaty is received by the president, who calls a special session of the Senate to consider it.

4 April: Lucy Cranch marries John Greenleaf.

6 April: William Cranch marries Anna Greenleaf.

26 May: JA and AA leave Quincy for Philadelphia, stopping in New York, where AA stays to visit with AA2 and CA.

6 June: JA arrives in Philadelphia.

8 June: The Senate convenes in a special session to consider the Jay Treaty; it advises and consents to ratification by a vote of 20 to 10 on 24 June.

26 June: The Senate adjourns; JA leaves Philadelphia for New York, where he arrives on 28 June.

29 June: JA and AA leave New York for Quincy.