| Show FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUT OUR presidents by JAMES MORGAN JOHN ADAMS AND ABBY 0 0 1735 oct 10 19 john adams adam barn Brain braintree tree masil mac 1 1765 graduated at t Harv harvard ardt 1 1764 7 6 4 married in congress Con groM 1775 85 ort OB M laden to france miri minister ster to england 11 6 6 schoolgirl complained that american history was so go littered up with ith adamsey Ad amses that she coulden couldn t tell W 0 one ne frol aiom n the lie other yet tills this ands most t Ill shed family in our national blo biography graphy lived to in america one luin him dred and fifty years before it broke into fume fame when the lie engagement was announced of john adams of Brain braintree tree abass to the daughter of parron smith of the adjoining town of wey adouth people were shocked that ahby abby should marry so beneath her station was slie she not a quincy and a norton orton ard and john johm the e 0 son o n of a small farmer dabi was put down n t to 0 fourteenth place among his twenty tour four classmates when harvard catalogues cataloguer catal were made up according to social rank after that he taught school in worcester to girt get enough money to study law and the strictest of the puritans looked on lawyers as ungodly father anther ln lia law smith was game and tradition says flays that lie preached down his gossiping parishioners from tills this well veil chosen text test john caroe came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and ye say he hath a devil I 1 although she never went to school this parsons daughter was by long lone odds adds the cleverest in tile the entire line of our presidents preal dents wives her published letters forming a delightfully human document in our too often lit history story when john joined the fathers father S 4 of f the republic in tile the great work of netting up title the most masculine government the world ever saw this mother of the republic had bad to stay home to rock tte the cradle cook and patch for four little Adi adamsey amses and to tend the 4 abigail adams adam farm IfIl milking kling and churning knitting and darning teaching and praying tolling and saving she supported the fa fatally inspired her husband in his progress to the presidency and rear reared d fl a son to follow in the fathers fo foot ot steps in ili the war it tell fell to adams to do picket duty in europe congress sent him blin to france with a thoughtful warning to put in tile the bottom of life dispatch IBB beg plenty of leador lead i or stone or other weighty substance to lo sink his papers for hla big own neck no protection was proposed in event of the british a signer of the rebel manifesto of july 4 1770 nevertheless tie he took with him on the pert perilous lous trip lila his ten year earold ear old son john quincy on the next nest voyage lie he carried not only john quincy but also ills his second son on and they were shipwrecked oly off tile the coast of spain after five fa long anxious years of sep oration from husband and children the mother herself sailed to europe and the pioneer american women woman to appear at the court of st james was abigail the of Brain braintree tree her presentation costume accordi according ing to her own description was wag white lute etring covered with white crepe fes mooned with lilac ribbon and mop mock k point lace over a hoop of enormous extent and with a narrow arnin three yards long also ruffle cuffs treble lace and dress cap with wilb long lace tappets and two ta white pl clunies unies you will M he bo stared nt at a rient grent 11 tile duke or of por dorset set mildly tarried tir ried the Atit mow oti oil the lie every back 1 ick in the court circle was turned upon the yankee rebels and queen charlotte received abigail with contempt avid and scorn A man can defend himself always as husband did right rotin man fully when it fell to him to be the first brat independent american to stand before the throne of england george III venturing to infer from his supposed dislike of france a preference tor for england tits onetime one time subject frankly corrected the king 1 I must avow to to your majesty that I 1 have CT attachment but to my own country |
