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I wish, Sir, you would give me some instructions with regard to my time & advise me how to proportion my studies & my play . . and I will keep them by me & endeavor to follow them. 39 Early in winter 1778, the French government became the first foreign nation to recognize the United States’ independence. By then, John Adams was chairman of Congress’s Board of War and Ordnance—in effect, the nation’s secretary of war. ” My family was living on my past acquisitions which were very moderate. .
35 Adams surprised his wife in December by appearing at the farm unexpectedly—only to surprise her even more, four days later, by leaving for Watertown, Massachusetts, to report to the Provincial Congress. He returned home three weeks after that—then left for Philadelphia almost immediately, with hardly a moment for John Quincy and the other children. ” After he left, she decided to cease writing him after one last message. “I miss my partner,” she admitted. “I have not felt in a humor to entertain you with letters.
Like Boston, Charlestown sat in Boston Bay on what was nearly an island, connected to the mainland by a narrow neck. Two hills dominated the neck, Bunker’s Hill, as it was then called, near the mainland, and the smaller Breed’s Hill, nearer the water. Warren had gone to Bunker’s Hill to warn the commander of ammunition shortages and joined the troops behind a makeshift fortification on Breed’s Hill. When she heard the first cannon blasts, Abigail Adams shuddered, then suppressed her fears of running into British soldiers and took seven-year-old John Quincy to a hilltop behind their home in Braintree, where they watched a battle unfold across the bay.