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Aug 16, 2024 · In November 1800, just as the election that denied John Adams a second term as president was being held, Abigail oversaw the Adamses’ move from Philadelphia to the newly constructed presidential mansion in Washington, D.C. Her letters to family members showed her displeasure at finding the building roughly finished and unfurnished, but she ...
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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...
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Oct 27, 2009 · Unlike John, Abigail would not live to see John Quincy Adams elected as the nation’s sixth president in 1826. She died at home in Quincy in October 1818, at the age of 73 of Typhoid fever.
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.
In 1764, Abigail married John Adams, a Harvard graduate beginning a law career. The couple moved to Adams’ farm in Braintree, south of Boston, and had three sons and two daughters. As her husband increasingly traveled as a lawyer, political revolutionary, and—after the Revolution—a diplomat, Abigail managed their farm and business affairs ...
This letter, which Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, over several days in 1776, combines news of hardships at home and the situation in Boston with reports of mumps, smallpox, and convulsion fits. The letter also contains Abigail’s advice about a new form of government.
In 1764, she married John Adams. As her husband’s prominence grew and his time away from home increased, Abigail managed the family’s farm and its business affairs while also raising their children.
Abigail met such a man in John Adams, a young lawyer from nearby Braintree. During their two-year courtship the young couple spent long periods apart and relied upon writing letters to keep in touch. On October 25, 1764, Abigail's father presided over their wedding.
