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In 1800 she complained that she could find no one willing to chop firewood for the White House |
Abigail Adams
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$600 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
2015-10-20 |
#7152 |
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The first "Second Lady" & the second First Lady |
Abigail Adams
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$200 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
2011-12-09 |
#6265 |
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1797-1801 |
Abigail Adams
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$600 |
J |
FIRST LADIES' TERMS OF SERVICE |
2005-04-05 |
#4747 |
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Born in Massachusetts, she was descended from the Quincy family on her mother's side |
Abigail Adams
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$200 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
2002-11-11 |
#4186 |
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During her time in the White House--Nov. 1800 to March 1801--she hung the family wash to dry in the East Room |
Abigail Adams
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$1,000 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
2002-05-31 |
#4100 |
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In November 1800 she wrote to her daughter that "The principal stairs are not up" in the White House |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
2000-02-04 |
#3555 |
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Quincy was her mother's maiden name & the middle name of her son |
Abigail Adams
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$300 |
J |
MORE FIRST LADIES |
1999-01-08 |
#3305 |
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She was the second first lady |
Abigail Adams
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$100 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1998-12-25 |
#3295 |
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Our second first lady, she was married to the future president by her father, a minister |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1997-05-13 |
#2937 |
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She watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hill near her home with her 7-year-old-son John Quincy |
Abigail Adams
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$300 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1996-02-15 |
#2644 |
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In 1800 she found the unfinished White House "habitable", but barely |
Abigail Adams
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$600 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1995-12-26 |
#2607 |
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Her son Thomas, born in 1772, became a chief justice in Massachusetts |
Abigail Adams
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$1,000 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1995-05-22 |
#2481 |
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She didn't live to see son John Quincy become president; she passed away 7 years earlier |
Abigail Adams
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$200 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1995-03-31 |
#2445 |
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She missed her husband's 1797 inauguration because she was nursing his sick mother in Massachusetts |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1994-10-13 |
#2324 |
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Her daughter-in-law Louisa was also a first lady |
Abigail Adams
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$1,000 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1994-05-27 |
#2255 |
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Alphabetically, she's first on the list of First Ladies |
Abigail Adams
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$100 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1993-11-24 |
#2123 |
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After returning to Quincy in 1801, she wrote that she resumed her "operations of dairy-woman" |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1993-06-04 |
#2030 |
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She spent much of her youth with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Quincy |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1993-04-30 |
#2005 |
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Her grandfather, Col. John Quincy, was a speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
Abigail Adams
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$400 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1992-02-17 |
#1726 |
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She didn't live to see her son elected president but she did see him become Monroe's Secretary of State |
Abigail Adams
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$200 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1991-09-12 |
#1614 |
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She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill |
Abigail Adams
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$500 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1991-04-01 |
#1526 |
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This earliest resident of the White House used to hang her laundry in the East Room |
Abigail Adams
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$600 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1990-05-29 |
#1337 |
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She died in 1818, so she never knew that her son became president |
Abigail Adams
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$200 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1990-04-16 |
#1306 |
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In 1776 this future First Lady urged her husband John "to remember the ladies," or else... |
Abigail Adams
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$500 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1989-10-23 |
#1181 |
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Ency. Americana calls her the "mother of the most important family dynasty in American public life" |
Abigail Adams
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$1,000 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1987-04-22 |
#618 |
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Her 54-year marriage to our 2nd president has been called a "love feast" |
Abigail Adams
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$800 |
DJ |
FIRST LADIES |
1985-09-11 |
#263 |
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Only wife of 1 president & mother of another |
Abigail Adams
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$500 |
J |
FIRST LADIES |
1984-12-05 |
#63 |