![]() ![]() However, Abigail and her sisters made good use of all of the books in the family library, and were also interested in the political doings of New England. This biography of her shows how she was an influential woman of her time, as an intelligent woman who respected her spouse and who conceived her main duty as that of supporting her husband in his work and raising their children to be virtuous, moral, and worthy sons and daughter of the new country.īorn as Abigail Smith, the second daughter in a family of three daughters and one son (her mother had been a Quincy), she lived the typical life of a daughter in a well-to-do Boston-area family, in that the boys were tutored and eventually sent to Harvard, while the girls were not so educated. Abigail Adams (1744 – 1818) was the wife of the First Vice President and Second President of the United States, John Adams (1735 -1826), and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the Sixth President of the United States (though she did not live to see him attain that position). ![]()
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