Family
Abigail Adams' Father :
William Smith, 1706, January 29, Charlestown, Massachusetts, died 1783, He was a Congregationalist minister.
Abigail Adams' Mother :
Elizabeth Quincy, born 1721, Braintree, Massachusetts, died 1775, married in 1740. She was the daughter of John Quincy, a member of the colonial Governor's council and colonel of the militia. Mr. Quincy was also Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, a post he held for 40 years until his death at age 77. He died in 1767; three years into his granddaughter Abigail Smith's marriage to John Adams, and his interest in government and his career in public service influenced her.
Abigail Adams' Birth and Siblings : she was born the second had one brother, three sisters, Mary Smith Cranch (1741-1811), William Smith (1746-1787), Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody (1750-1815).
Abigail Adams' Marriage : She married in 1764, October 25 to John Adams, lawyer (1735-1826), wed in matrimony by her father, the Reverend Smith. After the ceremony, they drove in a horse and carriage to a cottage that stood beside the one where John Adams had been born and raised. This became their first home. They moved to Boston in a series of rented homes before buying a large farm, "Peacefield," in 1787, while John Adams was Minister to Great Britain.
Abigail Adams' Children : She had three sons and two daughters; Abigail "Nabby" Amelia Adams Smith (1765–1813),
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), Susanna Adams (1768–1770), Charles Adams (1770–1800), Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832)