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Tonight we'll read an excerpt from the book Abigail Adams and her

Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Richards wrote more than 90 books, including biographies, poetry, and several for children.

Her father was an abolitionist, and her mother wrote the words to the Battle Him of the Republic.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Girlhood and Marriage.

We are told that Abigail Smith in her childhood and girlhood was surrounded by people of learning

and political sagacity, who were some of these people?

At her home in Weymouth, there was her father, of course, remarkably lively and animated in

all of his public performances as we learn from his tombstone.

Doubtless his company was stimulating to the bright little girl.

Perhaps he took her with him now and then on his trips to Boston or

Hingham when he went to preach or to buy flour and ministers and other godly folk often came to the parsonage.

But probably at her grandparents home she saw even more people of learning and political sagacity.

The Quincy clan itself made a goodly fellowship of cultivated men and women.

The Hancock's lived nearby. John Hancock was a boy of seven when

Abigail was born. In the year 1755, when she was 11, he was a lad of 18, had graduated the year before from

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