Abigail Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views
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wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States
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alize mcghee on 20 Mar 10wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States
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Matthew Dumbrique on 25 Mar 10Abigail was pregnant with her fourth child. John Adams at that time was off to the Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress also took place in Philadelphia. There he would meet many politicans.
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Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams was born in the North Parish Congregational Church in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on November 11, 1744, to the Rev. William Smith and Elizabeth (née Quincy) Smith. On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincy family, a well-known political family in the Massachusetts colony.
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Abigail Adams by Benjamin Blythe, 1766
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Although John Adams had known the Smith family since he was a boy (he and Abigail were third cousins[2]), he paid no attention to the delicate child nine years his junior.
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Although Abigail's father approved of the match, her mother was appalled that a Smith would throw her life away on a country lawyer whose manners still reeked of the farm; eventually she gave in.
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In 10 years she gave birth to six children: Abigail ("Nabby") (1765–1813) John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) Susanna Boylston (1768–1770) Charles (1770–1800) Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832) Elizabeth (stillborn in 1777)
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In 1784 she and her daughter Nabby joined her husband and her eldest son, John Quincy, at her husband's diplomatic post in Paris.
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Abigail Adams died on October 28, 1818, of typhoid fever, several years before her son became president.
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abigal adams was a very smart woman and she was one of the most smartest women of her time. also john adams would ask her for advice
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After John Adams' defeat in his presidential re-election campaign, the family retired to Quincy in 1800. Abigail followed her son's political career earnestly, as her letters to her contemporaries show. In later years, she renewed correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, whose political opposition to her husband had hurt her deeply.
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Abigail and John's marriage relationship is well documented through their correspondence and other writings. Letters exchanged throughout John's political obligations indicate that his trust in Abigail's knowledge was sincere
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Along with her husband, Adams believed that slavery was not only evil, but a threat to the American democratic experiment. A letter written by her on March 31, 1776, explained that she doubted most of the Virginians had such "passion for Liberty" as they claimed they did, since they "deprive[d] their fellow Creatures" of freedom