. The romance of old New England churches. everend John ISTorton,must certainly have had a truly wonderfulmind. In the year 1Y95, Mrs. Adams tellsher own daughter of the excellent lessonsshe received from her grandmother at a 169 OLD XEW EXGLAXD CHUKCHES very early period of life. I frequentlythink they made a more durable irnpres-sion upon my mind than those which Ireceived from my own parents. ... Ilove and revere her memory; her lively,cheerful disposition animated all aroundher, while she edified all by her unaffectedpiety. Again, in another letter to thesame person in 1808, she said: I ch
. The romance of old New England churches. everend John ISTorton,must certainly have had a truly wonderfulmind. In the year 1Y95, Mrs. Adams tellsher own daughter of the excellent lessonsshe received from her grandmother at a 169 OLD XEW EXGLAXD CHUKCHES very early period of life. I frequentlythink they made a more durable irnpres-sion upon my mind than those which Ireceived from my own parents. ... Ilove and revere her memory; her lively,cheerful disposition animated all aroundher, while she edified all by her unaffectedpiety. Again, in another letter to thesame person in 1808, she said: I cherishher memory ^vith holy veneration, whosemaxims I have treasured up, whose virtueslive in my remembrance; happy if I couldsay they have been transplanted into mylife. It was probably at one of the pleasantsocial gatherings at Grandmother Quincyshospitable mansion that x^bigail first metJohn Adams, the son of a Braintreefarmer, who had been born in the quaintold house now in the care of the QuincyDaughters of the Revolution, had been170. OLD NEW ENGLAND CHURCHES sent to Harvard College, had supportedhimself by school-teaching while studyinglaw in Worcester, and had now returnedto Braintree, full of ambition and buoyantmanliness, for a short stay preparatory topractising his profession. An illuminat-ing glimpse of the young Adams of thisperiod is afforded by this sample recordin his diary: Rose at sunrise, un-pitched a load of hay, and translated twomore Leaves of Justinian. He was so-cially inclined, too, this clever young law-yer-in-the-germ, and with his farm choresand his study he mingled a liberal allow-ance of chat and tea and jolly visiting atthe various Quincy homesteads near hisfarm. To two of the Quincy sisters he hadindeed been greatly attracted before everhe met their cousin Abigail Smith. Butthese tender emotions were only the fore-runners of the deep and sincere affection in OLD XEW EXGLAXD CHURCHES of his life, which was to spring into beingearly in the sixties
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