Abigail Adams, 17651813 (aged 48 years)

Name
Abigail /Adams/
Given names
Abigail
Surname
Adams
Birth July 14, 1765 29 20

MarriageWilliam Stephens SmithView this family
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Birth of a brotherJohn Quincy Adams
July 11, 1767 (aged 1 year)

Birth of a sisterSusanna Adams
1768 (aged 2 years)

Death of a sisterSusanna Adams
1770 (aged 4 years)

Birth of a brotherCharles Adams
May 29, 1770 (aged 4 years)

Birth of a brotherThomas Boylston Adams
September 15, 1772 (aged 7 years)

1st President of the United States
George Washington
April 30, 1789 (aged 23 years)

Death of a paternal grandmotherSusanna Boylston
1797 (aged 31 years)

2nd President of the United States
John Adams
March 4, 1797 (aged 31 years)

Death of a brotherCharles Adams
December 1, 1800 (aged 35 years)
3rd President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
March 4, 1801 (aged 35 years)

4th President of the United States
James Madison
March 4, 1809 (aged 43 years)

Death August 1813 (aged 48 years)

Cause of death: Cancer
Family with parents
father
Portrait was done by Benjamin Blyth of Salem, circa 1766, shortly after Adams's marriage to Abigail Smith
17351826
Birth: October 19, 1735 45 27
Death: July 4, 1826
mother
Marriage MarriageOctober 25, 1764
9 months
herself
2 years
younger brother
Photograph by Matthew B. Brady ca.1847
17671848
Birth: July 11, 1767 31 22
Death: February 23, 1848
18 months
younger sister
2 years
younger brother
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Birth: May 29, 1770 34 25
Death: December 1, 1800New York, USA
2 years
younger brother
Family with William Stephens Smith
husband
herself
Marriage Marriage
Note

ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH, the oldest child of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born 14 July 1765. At the age of 18, Abigail traveled abroad with her mother, where she met and married (12 June 1786) Col. William Stephens Smith of New York, secretary to the U.S. Legation in London. Smith had served in the Continental Army during the Revolution and had been an aide to George Washington. The colonel's poor judgment in business matters, especially land speculation, placed their household under severe financial restraints following the couple's return to New York in 1788. Although she survived a mastectomy in October 1811, Abigail died of cancer in August 1813 at her parents' home in Quincy.