1Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr., 16 March 1763 (Adams Papers)
: Smith-Carter Papers); addressed: “To Mr. Isaac Smith junr. Boston”; endorsed: “Nabby.” Enclosure missing; see note 2.Isaac Smith Jr. (1749–1829)
2Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John Adams
3Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 (Adams Papers)
William Smith (1707–1783), Harvard 1725, who had been settled in the First or North Parish of Weymouth since 1734. The house, built about 1685 by one of Smith’s predecessors, Rev. Samuel Torrey, and the parsonage lands were for decades before and after Smith’s purchase in 1738 bitterly contested in litigation between the North and South Parishes. As late as 1761 ...of the Smith family. At his...
4Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 2 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Rev. William Smith’s Negro servant. Smith’s own Diary (
5Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA. Smith
6Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
7Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 9 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith (1721–1775)
8Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
(and in subsequent mentions). “Arpasia” was apparently Miss Mary Nicolson, of whom little is known except that she came from Plymouth and was a member of the Cranch-Palmer-Smith-Paine circle of female correspondents.
9Abigail Smith to John Adams, 15 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
10Abigail Smith to John Adams, 16 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
11Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
12Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
13Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 May 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA. Smith
14Abigail Smith to John Adams, 9 May 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John AdamsA Smith
15Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Smith to John Adams
16Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 (Adams Papers)
On Thursday, 25 Oct. 1764, John Adams “of Brantree” was married to Abigail Smith at Weymouth (
17Abigail Adams to Hannah Storer Green, 14 July 1765 (Adams Papers)
, later Mrs. William Stephens Smith, see Adams Genealogy.
18Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 July 1766 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch
19Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 October 1766 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch
20Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 13 October 1766 (Adams Papers)
Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch
21Abigail and John Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
...one peice and a material one I had like to have omitted, viz. that the camblet has been done these 3 weeks but how to get it to you now I know not. I shall send it to unkle Smiths as the likelyest way to find a conveyance. Dawson has damaged it something
22Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
...not to go together—if they went but one at a time I should chance to hear three times from you which would as Sarah Cotton used to say make me three times glad.—I sent your
Camblet to Unkle Smiths last week, and hope it has reach’d you before now. The coulour I know you will not like. I do not think Dawson used me well, tis a discourageing thing, when one has tried to have...
23Abigail and John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 4 January 1770 (Adams Papers)
’s hand: “For Mr. Isaac Smith So. Carolina These.”’s first American forebear in the paternal line, Thomas Smith, a butcher of Charlestown, Mass., had a son Thomas, a sea-captain, who married in South Carolina and whose grandsons, Benjamin and Thomas Smith, became very prominent in business and colonial affairs there. (One of Benjamin’s sons,
24Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 20 April 1771 (Adams Papers)
: Smith-Townsend Papers); addressed: “To Mr Isaac Smith—London.”
25Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 1774 (Adams Papers)
is discussing her sister Betsy’s relationship with John Shaw, whom Betsy was to marry in 1777 but whom she had renounced in March 1774; see Elizabeth Smith to
26Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
’s brother, William Smith, had moved not long before to Lincoln and was to participate in the events of 19 April 1775.