2.
The visitors were William Cranch (1769–1855), Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States in the District of Columbia and son of AA’s sister, Mary (Smith) Cranch (
DAB
; see also Adams Genealogy), and James Greenleaf, the Judge’s brother-in-law, who, a generation before, had served a short term in a debtors’ prison in consequence of his overspeculation in District of Columbia real estate (Greenleaf, Greenleaf Family
, p. 101, 217; Allen C. Clark, Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City, Washington, 1901, passim).