Abigail Adams By Sraabe 1735 John Adams born 1740 Her parents William and Elizabeth are married 1744 Abigail is born in Weymouth, Massachusetts 1762 John and Abigail start to “date” 1764 Abigail and John are married 1765 Abigail “Nabby” Adams is born 1767 John Quincy Adams is born 1768 John and Abigail move to Boston; Susanna Adams Boylston born 1770 The Boston Massacre 1771 The Adamses return to Braintree 1772 They return to Boston and Thomas Boylston Adams is born 1773 Boston Tea Party; Abigail begins to comment on politics 1774 John travels to First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, beginning the first of many long separations 1775 John goes to Second Continental Congress 1776 Abigail’s mother dies of dysentery 1776 John named to committee to write the Declaration of Independence 1776 Abigail and her children are inoculated for small pox 1778 John goes to the netherland’s and France and brings John Quincy with him 1779 John Writes the Massachusetts State Constitution 1783 Abigail’s father, William, dies 1784 Abigail and John live in both Paris and London as the First Ambassadors of the US 1786 Abigail Adams II maries William Stephens Smith 1787 William Steuben Smith born their first grandchild 1788 John is first Vice President 1793 John re-elected as Vice President 1796 John elected as second President 1800 Abigail and John become first residents of the White House 1818 Abigail dies 1826 John dies