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When John & Abigail Met George: The Adamses' Earliest Encounters with General Washington
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For our annual celebration of Boston's Evacuation Day, we welcome historian J.L. Bell for this free lecture.
When John & Abigail Met George: The Adamses' Earliest Encounters with General Washington
John Adams met George Washington in Philadelphia in 1774, and the next year Abigail Adams was highly impressed by the new general in Cambridge. Those meetings grew into a strong political partnership in the 1790s, but the first interactions were not entirely smooth. This talk delves into the Washington and Adamses' relationship in the first year of the Revolutionary War. Is John's story of nominating Washington to be commander-in-chief reliable? How did John's stolen mail lead to Abigail shaking a dog's paw in Medford? Which Native American leaders dined with Washington and Adams in Cambridge in 1776? And did Abigail Adams ever visit George and Martha Washington in the Vassall house?
J. L. Bell is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War. He has given several lectures about Gen. Washington’s work at his Cambridge headquarters.
Co-sponsored by Friends of the Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters and the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
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