Portrait of Abigail Adams by Gilbert Stuart (source)
Abigail Smith Adams
November 22nd, 1744 – October 28th, 1818
“She never, by word or look, discouraged me from running all hazards for the salvation of my country’s liberties; she was willing to share with me, and that her children should share with us both, in all the dangerous consequences we had to hazard.”
– John Adams, about Abigail Adams after her death,
in a letter to granddaughter Caroline
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