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After John Adams’s term as president ended, the couple moved back to Quincy, Massachusetts, and lived there the next 17 years together.

However, tragedy struck the Adams family repeatedly in the period from 1800 to 1817. Three of Abigail’s children died by 1817 and so did all of her sisters. In 1818, Abigail contracted typhoid fever at the age of 73. She died at home on October 28, a few weeks before her 74th birthday.

Abigail Adams was so beloved in Massachusetts that her pallbearers included the governor of Massachusetts and the president of Harvard University.

Abigail’s son and future president John Quincy Adams wrote the following about his mother: “My mother’s life gave the lie to every libel on her sex that was ever written.”