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= Abigail Adams =    Hello, My name is Abigail Adams. I am the wife of John Adams. I enjoy writting letters to my husband while he is away and also being an advocate for womens rights. > John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), Susanna Adams (1768–1770), Charles Adams (1770–1800), Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832) ** __Work Citied:__ ** http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2
 * __Background:__ **
 * I was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on Novmeber 11, 1744 to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy.
 *  I have one brother and two other sisters; Mary Smith Cranch, William Smith,and Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody.
 *  I never recived a formal education but I was learned how to read and write at home. I also had the extensive libraries of my father and grandfather.
 *  As a young woman I was very sick so i did not have time to play cards, sing or act.
 * __Marrige:__ **
 * I was married when I was 19 years old to a lawyer names John Adams.
 * I was married on October 25,1764 in Weymouth, Massachusettes.
 * Afterwards we went in horse and carrige to our new home in the area were John grew up.
 * __Children:__ **
 * After I was married I had two sons and three daughters; Abigail "Nabby" Amelia Adams Smith (1765–1813),
 * __Other Information:__ **
 * Nine months after I was married I had my frist child. I helped manage the house while my husband went to boston to practice law.
 * In 1774 John went to Philidelphia to participate in the First Continental Congress, I stayed home and this started the letter I wrote to him.
 * These letter would tell my thoughts about life at home and my thoughts on the tough questions that John would ask me about what was going on in Philadelphia.
 * During the revolution i was appointed by the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775, along with Mercy Warren and the governor's wife Hannah Winthrop to question their fellow Massachusetts women who were charged by their word or action of remaining loyal to the British crown and working against the independence movement.
 * I was the frist lady to hold anything close to a goverment position.
 * In 1783 I joined John in Eurpoe while he was with the Second Continental Congress drawing up the Declration of Independence.
 * __Presidental Years:__ **
 * John was elected president on March 4,1797.
 * I was unable to come to his inaugural ceremony because my mother had died.
 * During his years as president I fully supported my husband. I was there for him every step of the way.
 * I was very satus consious. I had many important people from the Fedreal party in my home.
 * I never threw parties but i had many formal visitors.
 * The Press really enjoyed me. They unofically named me Lady Adams.
 * __Post Presidency:__ **
 * After my husband was not re elected in the 1801 ecelction I was still very intersted in policitcs.
 * I still had many thoughts about how the country should be run and I let them know.
 * I was very involved with raising my granddaughter Susanna Adams till she was mature.
 * I Wrote to President Jefferson to tell him that his wife Maria had died. This renewed our friendship but I was still weary of his politics.
 * I was asked once if a publishing company could publish my letters I declined claiming it was improper for a womans personal thoughts to be divulged.
 * __Death:__ **
 * I died in my home in Quincy, Massachusetts on October 28, 1818. I was 73 years old.
 * After my death one of my grandsons gave my political letters to a publishing company and they published them into a book.
 * I also never got to see my son John Quincy Adams become president.