What was the marriage of John and Abigail Adams like?

John and Abigail Smith Adams married for love, managed to maintain their attraction and even passion fo r each other over the decades, and in the last of their ... read more

The reason for the revival of interest in John Adams is that there is a beer company named after his cousin that financed a TV series about the period and the fact that Abigail Adams was a prolific and intelligent letter writer. It was these letters that led to the HBO series. read more

"There is no evidence that Abigail and John did not know about each other's families from childhood, just because in small communities like that, families tended to know each other," she says. "On the other hand, historically, the evidence demonstrates that John met Abigail when she was only 15. read more

Smith, Abigail's father, presided over the marriage of John Adams and his daughter. After the reception, the couple mounted a single horse and rode off to their new home, the small cottage and farm John had inherited from his father in Braintree, Massachusetts. read more