9 July 1826, John Quincy Adams diary 35

This page of John Quincy Adams's diary recounts his traveling on July 9, 1826, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, then Frenchtown, Maryland, en route to Massachusetts. It is on this date that he learned of the death of his father, John Adams, who died on July 4, 1826. John Quincy comments on his father's life and legacy, as well as on the death of Thomas Jefferson, who also died on July 4th. John Quincy Adams diary 35, 25 January 1823 - 31 October 1826, 5 November 1828, and 15 August 1844, page 331.