![]() ![]() They would endure long separations, during which they wrote more than a thousand letters to each other. They would be married for 50 years, have five children, and witness revolution, war, scandal, diplomatic crises and the birth of a new nation. The newlyweds rode off on a single horse together to their new home, a small house and farm in Braintree that John had inherited. 25, 1764, five days before John’s 29 th birthday. John and Abigail got to know each other over the next three years, as he had legal business in Weymouth and Cranch courted, then married, Mary. John would soon change his mind about the bookish minister’s daughter. William Smith, describing him as ‘a crafty designing man.’ He dismissed the three girls was “not fond, not frank, not candid.” Nor did Abigail’s mother Elizabeth Quincy think much of John, who, she felt, lacked manners. He didn’t like Abigail’s father, the Rev. John described the visit in his diary as a waste of time. ![]() They went because Richard had a romantic interest in Abigail’s older sister Mary. John accompanied his friend Richard Cranch to the house where Abigail lived with her parents and two sisters. John was a country lawyer, already losing his hair and quite plump – not necessarily a bad thing in those days. Barely five feet tall and slim, she had dark brown hair and eyes. They met in Weymouth, Mass., in the house where Abigail was born to a minister and his wife on Nov. ![]()
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