Thursday 25th.

This morning about nine o clock the courier lost her foretopmast. About twelve o clock she got it up. 6 o clock. We lay to for her she being a stern of us. She came up with us and we again set sail.

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Thursday 25th.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 25 November 1779

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Cite as: “Thursday 25th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0001-0001-0014. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 7.]