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Nov 16, 2009 · On October 25, 1764, future President John Adams marries Abigail Smith. This devoted couple’s prolific correspondence during their married life has provided entertainment and a glimpse of early...
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They would be married for 50 years, have five children, and witness revolution, war, scandal, diplomatic crises and the birth of a new nation. They would endure long separations, during which they wrote more than a thousand letters to each other. Of those letters written between between 1762 and 1801, 1,160 survive. The letters that tell us about t...
John quickly got over his initial indifference to Abigail. The founding father became downright frisky in his letters to her. For example, during their courtship on Oct. 4, 1762, he wrote to “Miss Adorable.” Abigail took a more high-minded approach. They followed the custom of the day, and adopted pen names for each other: John called himself Lysan...
More than a decade later, John wrote a letter to Abigail dated April 28, 1776that showed his reliance on her mind as well as her heart:
Abigail embraced the concept of independence personally and politically. While John traveled, she managed the farm, raised their children and enlarged the house. But she also joined John in Paris and played the role of ambassador’s wife, and as First Lady she entertained formally . When John was president her political activity earned her the nickn...
Twenty years after they met in her father’s home, they still felt passionately about each other. On Dec. 23, 1782, when John was in The Netherlands trying to borrow money for the new American government, Abigail wrote:
John and Abigail would live together in Washington in the unfinished ‘President’s House,’ where Abigail would famously hang their laundry to dry in the East Room. John arrived first, and he penned words to Abigail on Nov. 2, 1800, that would be chiseled over the fireplace in the State Dining Room: John acknowledged Abigail Adams as a partner and an...
Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
Abigail and John Adams's letters to each other show a rare marriage of equals, historians say. Left: Abigail Adams, by Gilbert Stuart, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art;...
Aug 16, 2024 · Abigail’s plans to marry John Adams, a Harvard-educated lawyer nine years her senior, did not gain the immediate approval of Smith, who considered a lawyer’s prospects inadequate. When they married on October 25, 1764, the bride’s father, who performed the ceremony, amused the guests by citing a passage from the Book of Luke: “John came ...
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- Abigail Adams’s grandson Charles Francis Adams concluded that she had played a significant role in the career of her husband, John Adams, particula...
- One of Abigail Adams’s contributions was her oversight of the family’s move to the newly constructed presidential mansion in Washington, D.C. On Ne...
- Until modern times, few first ladies shared Abigail Adams’s interest in politics or the treatment of government leaders by the press. Although her...
Oct 27, 2009 · A friend of Cranch’s, a young lawyer named John Adams, met 17-year-old Abigail and fell in love. After a long engagement that her parents insisted on, they married on October 24, 1764, when...
Sep 24, 2011 · Abigail and John Adams portrayed by Patricia Bridgeman and Thomas Macy. In April of 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail from Philadelphia, “You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.”
