Abigail Adams

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Abigail Smith Adams

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Date of Birth:

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November 11, 1744

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November 11 - 1744

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Place of Birth:

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Weymouth, Massachusetts

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Weymouth - Massachusetts

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Date of Death:

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October 28, 1818

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October 28 - 1818

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Place of Death:

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Quincy, Massachusetts

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Quincy - Massachusetts

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Occupation:

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First Lady of the United States

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Remarks:

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Wife of John Adams and

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mother of John Quincy Adams

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Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her death.

Related Topics:
November 11 - 1744 - October 28 - 1818 - John Adams - President of the United States - First Lady of the United States

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Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail lacked formal education. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincys, a family of great prestige in the Massachusetts colony; her father and other forebearers were Congregational ministers, leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.

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Weymouth, Massachusetts - Massachusetts - Congregational

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Abigail Smith married John Adams in 1764. The young couple lived on John's small farm at Braintree (later renamed Quincy) or in Boston as his practice expanded. In ten years she bore six children: Abigail Amelia (1765-1813), future President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Susanna Boylston (1768-70), Charles (1770-1800), Thomas Boylston (1772-1832), and an unnamed daughter (stillborn 1775). A cairn now crowns the nearby hill from which she and her son John Quincy watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and burning of Charlestown. At that time she was minding the children of Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, who was killed in the battle.

Related Topics:
1764 - Small farm - Braintree - Boston - John Quincy Adams - Cairn - Battle of Bunker Hill - Joseph Warren

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Abigail Adams is remembered today for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he served his country in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. Passages from those letters figured prominently in the Broadway musical 1776 (and the 1972 film of it, with Virginia Vestoff as Abigail Adams). She is perhaps best known for her request that he and the Continental Congress...

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Continental Congress - Constitutional Convention - 1776 - Virginia Vestoff

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:remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

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In 1784, she joined John Adams at his diplomatic post in Paris. After 1785, she filled the role of wife of the first United States Minister to the Kingdom of Great Britain. They returned in 1788 to a house known as the "Old House" in Quincy, which she set about vigorously enlarging and remodeling. It is still standing and open to the public.

Related Topics:
Paris - Kingdom of Great Britain - Old House

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As wife of the first Vice President of the United States, Abigail became a good friend to Martha Washington and helped in official entertaining, drawing on her experience of courts and society abroad. After 1791, poor health forced her to spend most of her time in Quincy.

Related Topics:
Vice President of the United States - Martha Washington

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When John Adams was elected President of the United States, she continued a formal pattern of entertaining, becoming the first hostess of the yet uncompleted White House.

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President of the United States - White House

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The Adamses retired to Quincy in 1801. Abigail died in 1818, and is buried beside her husband in the United First Parish Church (also known as the Church of the Presidents) .

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