... at age fifteen was sent to Harvard. Upon graduation, John began his chosen career of being a lawyer. After a courtship of nearly five years on October 25, 1764 John and Abigail Smith Adams were married. The marriage of John to Abigail was the most important decision of his life, as would become apparent over time. Abigail was in all respects his equal ... was to play would be greater than he could possibly have imagined, for all his love for her and what appreciation he already had of her beneficial, steadying influence. The Adam's quickly began a family with four children having blesse...

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... were John and Abigail Adams. "Quincy", had every advantage as a youngster. At the time of his birth, his father was an increasingly admired and prospering lawyer, and his mother Abigail Smith Adams, was the daughter of an esteemed minister, whose wife's family combined two prestigious and influential lines, the Nortons and the Quincys. Accompanying his father on diplomatic missions in Europe ... Mexico to the Rocky Mountains and along the forty-second parallel to the Pacific Ocean. Historians regard the treaty as a brilliant act of diplomacy, and close to the end of Adam's life, he call...

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... thing that John needed to complete his life story was to find a loving wife. During the summer of "59, Adams met the one and only love of his life Abigail Smith (54). McCullough points out, that this, along with his father's unfortunate passing, were the turning points in young John's life. John might have lost a father, but gained a loyal, respectable, loving ... on July 4, 1826 (645). The father of independence died on the birthdate of independence for the United States of America. It was interesting to also read that McCullough discovered that Adam's partner in crime, Thomas Jefferso...

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