...husband, John Adams, then sitting in the Continental Congress : I long to hear that you have declared an independency, and by the way, in the new Code of Laws,...it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you to remember the ladies and to be more generous and favorable to them than were your ancestors. Do not...

...John Adams, then in the Continental Congress : "I long to hear that you have declared an independence, and by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than were...

...that you have declared an independence," she writes to her husband, the future president, John Adams, "and by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your...

...the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Its recipient was her husband, whom she admonished: ". . . in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be...would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors ... if particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies...

...received a letter from his wife, Abigail, saying : My dear John : By the way, in the new code of laws, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than were your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would...

...received a letter from his wife, Abigail, saying : My dear John: By the way, in the new code of laws, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than were your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would...

...received a letter from his wife, Abigail, saying : My dear John : By the way, in the new code of laws, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than were your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would...

...pleaded with John to see that rights for women be included in the Constitution. In April 1776 she wrote : In the new code of laws which I suppose It will be...necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladles and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power...

...she did not go so far as to suggest the same for the ladies, she did suggest to her husband that they remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. She went on : Do you put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would...

...ideas of independence as well. Listen now to this. 1EANEAN. I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and...