What is Abigail Adams Smith?
[[File:Abigail Adams Smith by Mather Brown, 1785.jpg|thumb|Abigail Adams Smith by Mather Brown]] '''Abigail Adams Smith''' or '''Nabby Adams''' was the eldest daughter of 2nd [[U.S. president]] [[John Adams]] and Former first lady Abigail Adams as well as the sister of [[John Quincy Adams]] the 6th U.S. president.<ref name=PBS>{{cite news|accessdate=July 21, 2021|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-children/|title=The Adams Children|publisher=PBS}}</ref> ==Early life== Abigail was the only one of Abigail and John Adams' girl children to live very long. She was very close to her mother and stayed with her when John Adams was away. When Abigail Adams went to join her husband in [[Paris]], Nabby went with her. She spent time in Paris and in [[London]].<ref name=PBS /> ==Marriage and children== On June 12, 1786, Abigail married Colonel William Stephens Smith. They had four children: William Steuben Smith, John Adams Smith, Thomas Smith, and Caroline Amelia Smith. William Stephens Smith was always trying to get rich quickly and made many foolish decisions, so the Smiths did not have much money. But John Adams got William Stephens Smith a job as a surveyor for the Port of New York. In 1806, William Stephens Smith was arrested for trying to overthrow the government of [[Venezuela]] and lost his job. Things were so bad that Abigail Adams Smith talked about [[divorce]] to her mother. He eventually started a farm in [[East Chester, New York]] and became a member of Congress.<ref name=PBS /> ==Illness and death== When she was 46, she found a lump in her [[breast]]. She moved to her parents' farm in Massachusetts and talked to two doctors, Tufts and Rush. They told her the best thing to do was surgery. At the time, there was no good [[anesthesia|way to make people stay asleep]] during surgery, so Abigail Adams Smith was awake for most of it. It took 25 minutes and another hour to close the wound. She lived for another two years. But she became very thin and came back to Quincy