Minister Adams remembered how his grandfather had sailed from Mount Wollaston in midwinter, 1778, on the little frigate Boston, taking his eleven-year-old son John Quincy with him, for secretary, on a diplomacy of adventure that had hardly a parallel for success.

亚当斯部长记得他的祖父是如何在 1778 年仲冬从沃拉斯顿山出发，带着他 11 岁的儿子约翰昆西担任秘书的小护卫舰波士顿，进行了一次几乎没有成功的冒险外交.