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Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers):
Farming and Household Management
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importation of goods for sale63
AFC03
financial arrangements with and transfer of funds from JA23
taxes20
Cotton Tufts as agent for17
inflated costs of goods and labor17
hiring and managing farm hands14
corresponds with Tufts about property, income, and investments10
refuses reimbursement for aid to Braintree men in Mill Prison pending JA's instructions2
role as business manager and investor grows in Europe2
AFC05
“The fluctuating state of our currency and the exorbitant demand for every necessary of life, together with the high taxes renders it more peculiarly difficult to be deprived of a partner at this day”2
advised by JA on crops and livestock1
AFC02
“a fine growing Season”1
AFC01
asked for a piece of broken mirror1
AFC05
asks JA for money and goods for own use1
AFC05
assumes JA will bring table linens and carpets1
AFC05
dares not buy more property1
AFC05
dealings with tradespeople1
AFC07
debts due JA unpaid in his absence1
AFC04
declines prisoners' repayment of JA's loan1
AFC05
dislikes sanitation provisions at Auteuil1
AFC05
educational facilities for children difficult to provide1
AFC04
entrusts JA's library to Richard Cranch1
AFC05
exhausts funds from buying land, does poorly on sale of goods1
AFC05
expects interest on loan office certificates1
AFC05
expenses of court clothing, mourning clothes1
AFC05
explains loss on bill of exchange1
AFC05
financial sacrifice of public service1
AFC06
gives servant housekeeping necessaries1
AFC05
gives Tyler JA's account books for collection of legal fees1
AFC05
has Royall Tyler hold JA's account books1
AFC07
has stockings woven for a miller1
AFC04
high cost of living in London1
AFC06
high price of food in France1
AFC06
“I involve you in no debts, nor go one Inch without seeing my way Clear”1
AFC05
James Warren praises AA's management of farm1
AFC02
Jefferson consults about official expenses1
AFC06
Jefferson writes to, about finances1
AFC06
JQA assists in keeping family accounts1
AFC06
“Misfortune of loosing a Cow upon the Ice”1
AFC02
“My credit will last here; till it fails upon the other side of the water”1
AFC03
needs small bills from JA1
AFC05
“obliged to Economize not to be in debt at the close of every Month”1
AFC06
orders Japanese tea urn, needles, chewing tobacco1
AFC05
organizes passengers to clean ship cabin1
AFC05
pays sons' school expenses, keeps two servants1
AFC05
pays the tax rates1
AFC02
plans to “put the Farm ... out of my Hands” (1778)1
AFC02
purchase of and payments for commodities1
AFC04
relationship with tenants1
AFC05
requests Select Essays upon Husbandry 1
AFC02
says both English and French cheat her1
AFC05
social needs for seven servants in France1
AFC05
takes cow to Boston when family undergoes inoculation1
AFC02
“The 7 Labours of Hercules were not more difficult and complicated than the Subject of Finance”1
AFC03
wants to buy out sister's interest in Medford farm1
AFC05
wants to put money into state notes1
AFC05
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