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She is married to William Stephens Smith.

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Abigail Amelia —Nabby“ Adams Smith
Birth: 14 Jul 1765 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death: 15 Aug 1813 (aged 48) Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial: Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: J. Q. Adams tomb
Memorial #: 7683041
Bio: Nabby Adams Smith was the eldest child and only surviving daughter of John and Abigail Adams and the sister of John Quincy Adams. She married William Stephens Smith in London on June 12, 1786 while her parents were in residence there but the marriage was not a happy one. Abandoned on numerous occasions while her husband went "seeking his fortune", Nabby showed herself to be a true child of her parents, strong-willed, uncomplaining and able to keep herself and her children together under one roof, earning the unstinting respect of John and Abigail and of John Quincy, who loved her dearly ... one of the few people he did love dearly.

In October of 1811, Nabby discovered a lump in her breast and a mastectomy was performed without any anesthesia. Her parents were holding her hands during the brutal surgery and, according to John, she never cried out once. After recuperating at the Adams homestead in Quincy, she returned to her dreary life in New York. But the cancer proved too much for even Nabby's resilient spirit and, in the summer of 1813, in agony, she returned to her parents in Quincy and died in The Old Homestead. The elderly John Adams grieved in a letter to his old friend Thomas Jefferson: "Your friend, my only Daughter, expired, Yesterday Morning .... in the 49th Year of her age, 46 of which She was the healthiest and firmest of Us all: Since which, She has been a monument to Suffering and to Patience." It has been said that neither John nor Abigail ever truly recovered from her death.

Cause of death: Breast cancer
Family Members
Parents
John Adams 1735-1826
Abigail Smith Adams 1744-1818
Spouse
William Stephens Smith 1755-1816
Siblings
John Quincy Adams 1767-1848
Grace Susanna Adams 1768-1770
Charles Adams 1770-1800
Thomas Boylston Adams 1772-1832
Elizabeth Adams 1777-1777
Children
Caroline Amelia Smith DeWindt 1795-1852
Created by: Kathleen (20098197)
Added: 13 Jul 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7683041/abigail-amelia-smith
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7683041/abigail-amelia-smith: accessed 11 April 2023), memorial page for Abigail Amelia —Nabby“ Adams Smith (14 Jul 1765œ15 Aug 1813), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7683041, citing Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Kathleen (contributor 20098197).

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Abigail Amelia (Nabby) Smith Adams

John Bass Adams
1692-????
Suannah White Boylston
± 1700-????
William Fowle Smith
1706-????
Elizabeth Norton Quincy
± 1720-????

Abigail Amelia (Nabby) Smith Adams
1765-????


William Stephens Smith
1755-1816


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Birthday July 14, 1765

  • The temperature on July 14, 1765 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.


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