Abigail Adams and Her Times

by Laura E. Richards

Footnotes

[1] "The Sabbath in Puritan New England." Alice Morse Earle. [2] "Customs and Fashions in Old New England." Alice Morse Earle. [3] Ibid. [4] "Customs and Fashions in Old New England." Alice Morse Earle. [5] "Customs and Fashions in Old New England." Alice Morse Earle. [6] "Three Episodes of Massachusetts History." C. F. Adams. [7] "History of Massachusetts." Minot. [8] "Customs and Fashions in Old New England." Alice Morse Earle. [9] "Two Centuries of Costume in America." Alice Morse Earle. [10] "Gordon's History." [11] Author unknown. [12] "History of the United States of America." Bancroft. [13] "The American Revolution." Trevelyan. [14] I.e., their house in Boston. [15] It stood at the corner of Essex and Washington Streets. [16] "Twice-Told Tales." Nathaniel Hawthorne. [17] Be it remembered that Washington did not remain in Boston, but anticipating Howe's attack on New York, was encamped in Brooklyn Heights by April: these movements ended the operations in New England. New York was the centre of the next campaign. [18] "Legends of the Province House." Nathaniel Hawthorne. [19] "Social Life in Old New England." Mary C. Crawford. [20] "Concise Oxford Dictionary." [21] John Quincy Adams was at this time Ambassador at St. Petersburg. [22] "Memoir of S. E. M. Quincy." [23] "Memoir of S. E. M. Quincy."