Abigail Adams (née Smith) mothered John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, and people see her as the first second lady and the second First Lady but only after her death coined the terms. 81 & 82).Letters of Abigail Smith Adams, First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801 as the wife, to John Adams, her husband and president, provide a vivid picture of life in colonial Massachusetts. She retaind her Senses to the last moment of her Existance, and departed the world with an easy tranquility, trusting in the merrits of a Redeamer," (p. My dear parent knew in whom she had Believed.The violence of her disease soon weakned her so that she was unable to converse, but whenever she could speak, she testified her willingness to leave the world and an intire resignation to the Divine Will.
I am not left to mourn as one without hope. Still I have many blessing left, many comforts to be thankfull for, and rejoice in. I might o! forbid it Heaven, I might have been left a solitary widow. I might have been striped of my children as many others have been. Tho earthly comforts are taken away I will not repine, he who gave them has surely a right to limit their Duration, and has continued them to me much longer than deserved. What tho his corrective Hand hath been streached against me I will not murmer. He who deignd to weep over a departed Friend, will surely forgive a sorrow which at all times desires to be bounded and restrained, by a firm Belief that a Being of infinite wisdom and unbounded Goodness, will carve out my portion in tender mercy towards me! Yea tho he slay me I will trust in him said holy Job. I will strive to obtain it! But the lenient hand of time alone can blunt the keen Edg of Sorrow. At the same time I know a patient submission is my Duty. I cannot overcome my too selfish sorrow, all her tenderness towards me, her care and anxiety for my welfare at all times, her watchfulness over my infant years, her advice and instruction in maturer age all, all indear her memory to me, and highten my sorrow for her loss. “But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother.
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