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*Abigail Adams was appointed by the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775.
To question their fellow Massachusetts women who were charged by their word or action of remaining loyal to the British crown and working against the independence movement.
* As the Second Continental Congress drew up and debated the Declaration of Independence through 1776, Abigail Adams began to press the argument in letters to her husband that the creation of a new form of government was an opportunity to make equitable the legal status of women to that of men.
*Abigail’s long-standing role as John’s trusted advisor continued in Washington where his opponents, including Thomas Jefferson, criticized his policies and her influence

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She also shared with her husband the management of the household finances and the farming of their property for sustenance. Because of his work they often were separated for log periods of time. The separation prompted the start of a lifelong correspondence between them, forming not only a rich archive that reflected the evolution of a marriage of the Revolutionary and Federal eras, but a chronology of the public issues debated and confronted by the new nation's leaders.

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19 years old, married 1764, October 25 to John Adams when he was a lawyer, after he won President's election of U.S.
The first home Abigail Adams shared with her husband,

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She recalled that in her earliest years, she was often in poor health. Reading and corresponding with family and friends occupied most of her time as a young woman. She did not play cards, sing or dance

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Although Abigail Adams was later known for advocating an education in the public schools for girls that was equal to that given to boys, she herself had no formal education.

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Place: Weymouth, Massachusetts
Date: 1744, November 11

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Nov-22-1744
Oct-28-1818

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'Abigail Smith Adams'

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In 1818, Abigail contracted typhoid fever and died soon after on October 28. Her distraught husband of fifty-four years was heard to say, “I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.”