What follows is part of an editorial we ran in this space in 2003. We thought then it was appropriate for the Fourth of July and think it is worth repeating. “I am apt to believe it will be ...

As a result, John's birthday will become October 30, Abigail's November 22. Upon graduation from Harvard, Adams becomes schoolmaster of a Worcester, Massachusetts, grammar school for boys and girls.

Abigail Adams gave birth to six children ... would die at just over a year. In 1777, on John Quincy's 10th birthday, Abigail delivered a stillborn girl, Elizabeth.) John missed Nabby's teen ...