On September 22, 1774, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John of "a conspiracy of the negroes," referring to the June petition signed by Prince Hall and others and presented to Thomas Gage ...

In a letter to John Adams, Abigail Adams declared ladies are “determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” ...

John Adams, containing more than 1,100 letters written from 1762 until 1801. With John away in Philadelphia at Second Continental Congress, Abigail was home tending the family farm and five ...

On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership characterized ... husband's sojourn to Europe her "widowhood." When his letters dwindled, Abigail struck up a correspondence ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

His wife, Abigail, was politically active, intellectual and literary, and a proponent of women’s rights. John Quincy Adams served as a distinguished US diplomat and secretary of state before his ...