I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you and tell me if you may where your Fleet are gone? What sort of Defence Virginia can make against our common Enemy? Whether it is so situated as to make an able Defence? Are not the Gentery Lords and the common people vassals, are they not like the uncivilized Natives Brittain represents us to be? I hope their Riffel Men who have shewen themselves very savage and even Blood thirsty are not a specimen of the Generality of the people. This Writer seems to have very inadequate Ideas of what is proper and necessary to be done, in order to form Constitutions for single Colonies, as well as a great Model of Union for the whole.

Indeed this Writer has a better Hand at pulling down than building. But his Notions, and Plans of Continental Government are not much applauded. His Sentiments of the Abilities of America, and of the Difficulty of a Reconciliation with G.B. But all agree there is a great deal of good sense, delivered in a clear, simple, concise and nervous Style. Sensible Men think there are some Whims, some Sophisms, some artfull Addresses to superstitious Notions, some keen attempts upon the Passions, in this Pamphlet. You ask, what is thought of Common sense. Adams and other female patriots did without their usual comforts, boycotted British goods, and took on additional burdens to maintain family farms and businesses. While John Adams was off in Philadelphia creating a new nation or overseas in Europe representing the United States, his wifein this act representative of so many other womentook command on the homefront.

They also maintained a voluminous correspondence with many other people, such as their good friend Mercy Otis Warren (the learned wife of politician Joseph Warren, she would later write a history of the Revolution), and John Thaxter, Sr., the husband of Abigail Adams's aunt.

Adams spent much of the war separated from her husband John, but the loving couple kept postriders busy with their constant letters on family, local, and national affairs. While it may be impossible to discover how many thought as she did, it is probable that those who did advocate such change tried to influence their friends and familyespecially the men who participated in politicsto effect reform. A problem for historians, however, is determining whether she was exceptional or representative of her female contemporaries.

From Family Letters on Revolutionary Matters (1776Ð83) The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (1776≨3)Ībigail Adams recognized that the constituting of a new government was a chance to rectify gender inequities inherent in law, politics, and society.

The letters of john and abigail adams