th:
1789.
Twelve months have nearly elapsed, since I discontinued this journal
altogether. Several months of ill health detained me at Braintree, and
wholly disqualified me for the use of the pen; after attending the
Session of the supreme judicial Court at Boston in February, I return’d
to this Town, on the 26th: day of March,
since which my health has been gradually restored; and is now almost as
good as it was previous to my sickness. The events which have occurred
since, I have omitted to record them, have not been sufficiently
interesting to induce me to regret the loss; but as those which are now
immediately before me, may be more important, I shall for a few weeks at
least resume the practice, which sickness at first, and indolence
afterwards led me to disuse.