[Pauillac, France]
At 2 PM—wayed Anchor at Poliack1 to go to Town2 at 6. Saluted a small town called Larmon3 with 13 Guns, and came to Anchor, at 5 AM. weighed Anchor & went up within 3 Miles of the Town & Landed the Passengers.—4
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (fMS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. That is, Pauillac, France.
2. That is, Bordeaux, France.
3. That is, Lormont, France.
4. In his diary, John Adams listed the passengers who disembarked from Boston. They were all from Adams’ party and included: Adams, his servant Joseph Stephens, his son John Quincy Adams, William Vernon, Jr., Jesse Deane, and Dr. Nicholas Noël. Adams, Diary 2: 293.
