Abigail Adams Archives - Literary Massachusetts https://literaryma.com/places/tags/abigail-adams/ Literature Lives Here Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:46:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/literaryma.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-Literary-MA-Logo-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Abigail Adams Archives - Literary Massachusetts https://literaryma.com/places/tags/abigail-adams/ 32 32 197999973 Abigail Adams Birthplace https://literaryma.com/places/abigail-adams-birthplace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abigail-adams-birthplace Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:46:14 +0000 https://literaryma.com/?post_type=gd_place&p=2865 Abigail Adams was born at the North Parish Congregational Church in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to William Smith (1707–1783) and Elizabeth (née Quincy) Smith. On her mother’s side, she was descended from the Quincy family, a well-known political family in the Massachusetts colony. Through her mother, she was a cousin of Dorothy Quincy, who was married to John Hancock. Adams was also ... Read more

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]]> Abigail Adams was born at the North Parish Congregational Church in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to William Smith (1707–1783) and Elizabeth (née Quincy) Smith. On her mother’s side, she was descended from the Quincy family, a well-known political family in the Massachusetts colony. Through her mother, she was a cousin of Dorothy Quincy, who was married to John Hancock. Adams was also the great-granddaughter of John Norton, founding pastor of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in Massachusetts.

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