Abigail Adams John Adams
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# 9 Grosvenor Square Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in one of London's most prestigious squares, you're looking at the diplomatic heart of early American-British relations—the residence where John Adams, freshly appointed as the first American Minister to Great Britain, established...
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9 Grosvenor Square
Inscription
In this house lived John Adams First American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785 to March 1788 afterwards Second President of the United States. From here his daughter Abigail was married to Colonel William Stephens-Smith, First Secretary of the Legation and an Officer in the Revolutionary Army on Washington's staff. John Adams and Abigail, his wife through character and personality, did much to create understanding between the two English-speaking countries. In their memory this tablet is placed by the Colonial Dames of America 1933.