John Adams Administration - Family Life
Family Life
On October 25, 1764, John Adams married Abigail Smith, the daughter of a well-known Congregational minister in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Abigail Adams was intelligent, vivacious, warm, and enormously loyal to her husband. Their marriage was marked by mutual devotion and intellectual respect. It also brought Adams wide social connections that contributed to his eventual political success. The primary strains in their marriage occurred during times of separation, such as when Abigail Adams remained at home in Quincy, Massachusetts, while John Adams was in Europe as a diplomat or in the capital as president.
Abigail Adams herself was a prolific writer of correspondence, from which we know her thoughts concerning the important issues and people of the day. When American independence was near, Abigail Adams suggested to her husband that Congress "Remember the Ladies" and protect them from the "unlimited power" of men,...
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