My father was anxious to send me to College, and therefore I studied the Grammar till I could bear with it no longer and going to my father, I told him I did not like study, and asked for some other employment. "When I was a boy, I had to study the Latin Grammar, but it was dull and I hated it. The following anecdote, related by him, even to the last days of his life, with all the good humour which was so charactistic of him, it is presumed, has not yet passed away from the minds of many who have heard it from his own lips. James, where I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickens, or minds so well improved as my garden." She told Thomas Jefferson she preferred her farm to "the court of St. Afterwards, she was glad to return to their farm in Braintree (Quincy). He told her she was so successful in budgeting, planting, managing staff, regulating live-stock, buying provisions, nursing and educating her children, that their neighbors would surely remark on how much better things seemed to go in his absence.įrom 1783-88, Abigail accompanied her husband on diplomatic missions to France and England. Rather, he took considerable pride in her accomplishments. John did not resent his wife's abilities to manage a farm and raise a family without him during his long absences on the nation's business. They were lovers, friends, counselors, and mentors to one another into old age. Their wedding, on October 25, 1764, began one of history's great partnerships.
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John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, met Abigail Smith and by 1762 they were exchanging frankly affectionate love letters full of mischievous humor. (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ) DAR Ancestor # A000585Find A Grave Memorial# 6 Please note: He passed away Jat the age of 90= Middle name was Edmund in some records.Ī Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. Elihu AdamsĢnd President of the United States, Writer, Vice President under Washington, Harvard Graduate 1755, Politician, Lawyer, founding father, President of United States John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the USA Susanna Boylston Adams Charles Francis Adams Thomas Boylston Adams and 1 other and Elizabeth Adams « lessīrother of Capt. Husband of Abigail (Smith) Adams, First Lady of the United Statesįather of Abigail "Nabby" Smith (Adams) Hon. Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (debility - old age most likely heart failure caused by arteriosclerosis) Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, British Colonial Americaīraintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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