It was pro­posed that we should have another dance this night and Blake and Perkins, a couple of young fellows, both strangers in town, undertook to be managers.  We drank tea, a number of us, at Mr. Caleb Thaxter's, and, at about seven, went again to Mrs. Derby's hall, where a partition between two cham­bers had been taken down, which made it much more convenient than it was the night before.  There were about thirty gentlemen and forty ladies; about twenty couple could stand up at once, and the rest amused themselves either with conversation, or with playing cards.  Between two and three we broke up, and I retired with our young ladies.  We sat about half an hour at Col'l Thaxter's, and I then went to bed. But a number of the lads, after conducting their ladies home, retained the music, and went a serenading all over the town till day-light.

  — John Quincy Adams, Oct. 25, 1787