All posts tagged "Braintree Mass."
-
6.9KMassachusettsAbigail Adams Attacked Thomas Jefferson As No One Else Dared To Do
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
-
10.9K2Crime and ScandalRoyall Tyler, the Man Nabby Adams Wanted To Marry
John Adams’ daughter in 1785 dumped the charming rake Royall Tyler to marry a dashing military hero. She may well have regretted...
-
6.0K5MassachusettsYoung John Adams Struggles With School, Vexes His Parents
Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors....
-
10.1K2ConnecticutThe 1965 Drought, New England’s Worst Ever
It will probably be several centuries before the Northeast United States again suffers anything like the 1965 drought. It was the driest...
-
17.8K9frontAbigail Adams Vents to Mercy Otis Warren About John
In the spring of 1776, Mercy Otis Warren received a letter from her good friend Abigail Adams complaining about her husband John....
- Massachusetts
John Adams Flees Philadelphia in the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
In the early hours of Sept. 19, 1777, John Adams was wakened from his bed in Philadelphia and told the British were...
-
7.7K10MassachusettsBattle of Bunker Hill Distresses Abigail Adams, 10 Miles Away
Abigail Adams just had to see the Battle of Bunker Hill for herself, despite her husband’s warnings that she and the children...
-
3.1K1MassachusettsJohn Adams Writes ‘Most Tenderly’ to Abigail
On May 13, 1789, John Adams wrote ‘most tenderly’ to his wife from New York about their upcoming move. He was vice president...
-
4.3K10MassachusettsAbigail Adams Reminds John To Remember the Ladies
On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams sat down at her farmhouse in Braintree, Mass., to write a letter to her husband John....
-
17.7K5MassachusettsThe Ageless Love Story of John and Abigail Adams
The enduring love story of John and Abigail Adams began with a whimper rather than a bang in 1762. They met in...
To Top
