Abigail Adams - Boston, MA - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

Abigail Adams was the wife of President John Adams and the mother of President John Quincy Adams. She was a vocal advocate for women's rights and an early proponent for abolition of slavery in the America. Her passion for these causes are documented in over 1200 known letters between Abigail and John Adams.

A larger-than-life 75" x 33" x 21", bronze, ground level statue of Abigail Adams by Meredith Gang Bergmann is part of the Boston Women's Memorial that was installed on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in 2003. Abigail Adams is wearing a long dress and bonnet. She has her arms crossed and is standing next to a 8' high of granite. The granite block has three inscriptions, a short biography and two quotes from her letters.

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Abigail Adams
1744 - 1818
Born in Weymouth Massachusetts. She was
the wife of the second President of the
United States and the mother of the sixth.
Her letters establish her as a perceptive
social and political commentator and
a strong voice for women's advancement.

Left Side

If we were to count our
years by the revolutions
we have witnessed
we might number them
with the antediluvians
so rapid have been
the changes: that the mind
tho fleet in it progress,
has been outstripped by them
and we are left like statues
gazing at what we can neither
fathom or comprehend.

Letter to Mercy Otis Warren
March 9, 1807

Right Side

And, by the way, in the
New Code of laws
which I suppose
it will be necessary
for you to make
I desire you would
remember the ladies
and be more generous
and favorable to them
than your ancestors.
Do not put such unlimited
power into the hands
of the husbands.
Remember, all men would
be tyrants if they could.
If particular care and
attention is not paid to the
ladies, we are determined
to foment a rebellion,
and will not hold ourselves
bound by any laws in which
we have no voice
or representation.

Letter to John Adams
March 17, 1776