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Tag Archives: John Adams
Thomas Jefferson and the Cheshire Cheese
Cheese Practically all cultures include cheese (no pun intended). It basically an offshoot of milk, whether from a cow, a sheep or a goat, etc. to include the curd. As one would expect, the different animal milk produces different types … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Burr, American history, Andrew Jackson’s cheese, Baptist preacher John Leland, Cheshire MA sends a cheese to Jefferson, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, John Adams, President Andrew Jackson, President Thomas Jefferson, Presidential history, Reverend John Leland, The 12th Amendment, the election of 1800, The republican cheese, Thomas Jefferson, Transporting the Berkshire Cheese to Washington, US history, Vice President Aaron Burr, White House history
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Nabby Adams and the Royall Tyler Affair
The Enigmatic Miss Nabby Abigail (Nabby) Adams (1765-1813), the only daughter of John and Abigail Adams was a hard one to figure. By her mid-teens (considered courtin’-age, if not actually marriageable), she was considered a fine looking young woman, well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams sister Mary Cranch, Adams In-law William Smith, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Abigail Adams, First Lady History, history, John Adams, John Adams' daughter Nabby, Mercy Warren, Nabby Adams, Nabby Adams Smith, Nabby Adams' beau Royall Tyler, President John Adams, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Royall Tyler, US history, William Stephens Smith
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GW: The Very First New Year’s Day Reception
George Washington held the first New Year’s Day Reception at the President’s House in New York. New York: 1790 The weather was unseasonably balmy January 1, 1790. The doors and windows were opened wide and throngs of well wishers and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, American history, Dutch New Year’s traditions, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, First Lady Martha Washington, George Washington, history, John Adams, MArtha Washington, New Netherlands, PResident George Washington, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Second Lady Abigail Adams, The Anglo-Dutch Wars, The Dutch in New York, The President’s House in New York, US history, Vice President John Adams, White House history, William and Mary
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JQA: The First Trip to Russia
John Quincy Adams was fourteen years old and incredibly bright. First…Naming Rights It has been fashionable lately to name one’s offspring as if it came out of a Scrabble box. But for centuries many people considered it a time-honored tradition … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Charles Adams, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, Francis Dana, George Washington Adams, history, John Adams, John Adams II, John Adams in Holland, John Q. Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams in 1778, Linguistic skills of John Quincy Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, Presidential history, US history
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Abigail Adams: The Shining Moment
AA: Revolutionary Patriot With her husband some 400 miles away in Philadelphia trying to create an independent nation from 13 disassociated colonies with all their inherent problems, needs, quibbles, and disparate personalities (including his own), Abigail Adams voraciously consumed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams opinion about slavery, Abigail Adams opinions about education, Abigail and John Adams, Abigail Smith Adams, Alexander Pope, American history, “Lysistrata”, ”Remember the Ladies”, British Author Daniel Defoe, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Greek dramatist Aristophanes, history, John Adams, John Adams and the Continental Congress, Mercy Otis Warren, Mercy Warren, Presidential history, US history, White House history
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John Adams Goes to Congress
Lawyer Adams John Adams was never a wealthy man, and never would be – at least compared to his fellow Founding Fathers like Washington or Jefferson. Or John Hancock or Benjamin Franklin. When he married at 29, he had become … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams brother William Smith, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, history, John Adams, John Adams and the Continental Congress, John Adams' diary, John Hancock, President John Adams, Presidential history, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams, The Boston Tea Party, The committees of Correspondence, The FIrst Continental Congress, Thomas Cushing, US history, White House history
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Abigail Smith: Becoming Mrs. Adams
Abigail: Third Generation Abigail Smith Adams, born in 1744, was already the third generation born in Massachusetts Bay. If her forebears didn’t come on the Mayflower, they surely followed along on some later “midsummer flower.” They were all Englishmen (and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams parents, Abigail and John Adams, Abigail Smith, Abigail Smith Adams, American history, Courtship of John and Abigail Adams, education of Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Quincy Smith, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Abigail Adams, First Lady History, history, John Adams, President John Adams, Presidential history, Rev. William Smith, siblings of Abigail Adams, US history
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Abigail Adams: Tea With the General
Mrs. A. The Outspoken Most historians concur that Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) was a woman far ahead of her time. Born to a Congregationalist minister and his better-pedigreed wife, the Smiths were well regarded and middle class; certainly not wealthy … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams opinion about George Washington, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, General George Washington, George Washington, history, John Adams, John Adams early relationship with George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Presidential history, US history
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The Great White Jail
“The White House is the finest prison in the world.” Harry S Truman. The White House Paradox The White House, or the Executive Mansion, is undoubtedly the finest residence the country has to offer the President of the United States, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Chester Alan Arthur, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Frances Cleveland, First Lady History, Frances Folsom Cleveland, George Washington, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, history, James Buchanan, John Adams, Julia Grant, MArtha Washington, Presidential families, Presidential history, The Executive Mansion, The White House, US history, White House history
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