John Quincy Adams's Twitter Account

[Bucky]

http://twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS

8/6/1809: Thick fog. Scanty Wind - On George’s Bank. Lat: 42-34. Read Massillon’s Carême Sermons 2 & 3. Ladies &c. Sick.

8/7/1809: Fog. No Observation. Spoke a fishing Schooner from Grand Bank, bound to Plymouth. Read Chantreau’s travels.

8/8/1809: Thick fogs all day. No observation. Saw a Schooner. Read Langhorne's Life of Plutarch, and began with Theseus.

8/9/1809: Fogs and a fresh breeze. Passed a Schooner. Lat: 43-29. Long: 61. Severe Squall while we were at dinner. http://is.gd/284zc (map)

8/10/1809: Squally Night and rainy Morning. Saw a Ship. Lat: 43-49. Long: 56-30. Read Plutarch's life of Romulus. http://is.gd/284Kl (map)

8/11/1809: Up great part of the Night. wife and child sick. Lat: 43-39. Saw nothing. Calm day. Read Mrs Grant's Letters.

8/12/1809: Calm morning, and stiff head breeze all the rest of the day. Lat: 43-52. Read lives of Lycurgus and of Numa.

Sure, it's boring as hell. But so was John Quincy. And so is every other twitterer.