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Abigail Adams and Smallpox Inoculation during the Revolution
On a Friday morning in 1764, a nineteen-year-old Abigail Smith sent some tobacco to her betrothed: one John Adams esquire, a country lawyer from Braintree.[1] Abigail was a parson’s daughter from nearby Weymouth, a young lady already brimming with the spiritedness and pragmatic optimism for which she would eventually become famous. But she didn’t send […]
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