Abigail+Adams

 Abigail Adams  By Julia   I researched about Abigail Adams. She was a very helpful and expressive woman. Let me tell you about her. When she was a young child, she often got sick. So she and her siblings were home schooled by their mother. At the age of seven, eleven children died in the town that she lived in. Young Abigail loved to read and visit her grandparents. Her Grandfather Quincy often served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Alot of the times she visited her grandparent's house Abigail listened to he  r grandfather talk angrily about the unfair taxes that Britain put on the Colonies. Abigail began reading the newspaper and asking questions about the taxes and growing tensions. Abigail's mother didn't approve of how Abigail was behaving. Her grandmother thought differently, though. She knew with Abagail's curiousness, she

would be a great thinker some day.

 When Abigail was seventeen, John Adams began to visit her father's large library. She and John often talked about politics and the unfair taxes. Their love for each other was growing stronger with each conversation. Abigail married John just before she turned twenty. The newly weds lived in Boston. Brit

ain was sending troops down to the colonies continuously. Abigail didn't like it at all. Abigail third child died at a very young age in 1770. The Patriots were rebelling against the laws. Abigail basically witnessed the Boston Tea Party. She knew that th Patriots were a brave bunch.

 Just before she gave birth to her fourth child, the Boston Massacre occurred. This upset poor Abigail.In 1774, they moved to Abigail's hometown for safety. In September 1774, John was sent to Pennsylvania to attend the 1st Continental Congress. So Abigail had to raise four children and tend to a farm all by herself. She began missing her husband. She moved back to Boston in 1776. When the American Revolution started, Abigail was a HUGE help. She took people whose homes got destroyed into her own home. She as well as all other women taught her children the best she could. Abigail still squeezed in writing letters to John. Those letters help John convince congress to let George Washington command the Continental Army.

 Tears streamed down Abigail's face as she saw Bunker Hill go up in flames. Soon, small pox started spreading through all of the colonies. Although her children were vaccinated, her oldest child, Nabby, was scarred permanently on the face. When John finally came home, he had to leave again. To Europe. He took Abigail with him though. While they were in Europe, France to be exact, Abigail became very good friends with Thomas Jefferson. When the couple returned home, the US was independent!

 After George Washington retired from President, John Adams was elected the 2nd President of the US. Sadly, after that, French warships started attacking American vessels. But President Adams said to leave the warships alone! A couple years later, Thomas Jefferson was elected the new President. On that same day, Abigail's son, Charlie, died at age thirty. Soon after, Abigail's became very sick! But she recovered quickly. About a year later, Nabby, Abigail's only daughter, died of cancer at the age of forty-eight. I read in my book that she wrote these words to her sister, " I am in despair... My only daughter is gone".

 When Abigail was seventy-three, she came down with Typhoid Fever and died. Abigail Adams was stern, helpful, and motherly. She went down in history... A Patriot.