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Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams (n??e Smith) (November 11, 1744 - October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth, and is regarded as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the terms were not coined until after her death

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