If you’ve watched the HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you probably recall the scene in which his wife Abigail inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...
John Adams observed, "Our misfortunes in Canada are enough to melt a heart of stone. The small-pox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians, and Indians together.” Because smallpox was ...
On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership characterized ... made the case for independence in Philadelphia, smallpox struck Braintree. With Abigail and the children ...
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