Edith gelles, she is a Stanford University historian and the scholar at Clayman Institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books among them are portia the world of Abigail Adams, which one the award from the american historical association, also Abigail Adams writing life, and also abigail and john portrait of a marriage. Edith has appeared widely in the media talking about the adamses. Among her appearances has been cspans first ladies series. I would like you to welcome edith gelles. [applause] according to adams family lore, when Abigail Adams married john adams on october 25, 1764 the reverend smith, abigails father, preached a sermon from the text of matthew. For john came, neither drinking bread or eating neither drinking wine or eating bread. John records the story in his memoir and explains the choice of text as a response to the congregation. He suggests that a portion of the parishioners thought that the son of a small farmer in the mi
John adams on october 25, 1764 the reverend smith, abigails father, preached a sermon from the text of matthew. For john came, neither drinking wine or eating bread. John records the story in his memoir, and explains the choice of text as a response to the congregation. He suggests that a portion of the parishioners thought that the son of a small farmer in the middle class of braintree was scarcely good enough to match with the pastors daughter. The reverend smiths cryptic message may have included his more personal reflections, which Charles Francis preferred to disregard. For many reasons, the reverend smith and his wife Elizabeth May have disapproved of the marriage of their daughter. Abigail was not yet 20 years old when she married. Young for the middle of the 18th century, where on average women married at the age of 22. Further, she appears to not have had previous suitors to john adams, whom she met which he was 16. Adams was a full 10 years her senior, and may have been an ad
He is talking about lets make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. Lets attack the apaches and end these raids on new mexico and other spanish settlements. What makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and other spanish settlements . What is the strategic difficulty . Sam . It is a big place. It is a large colony. It is thinly settled, so it is not densely populated. You have a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages. What is the great danger for a Spanish Ranch in the 1750s . Yeah. Go ahead. The apaches could burn your house, do a little dance, and leave before anyone realized what was happening. Exactly. The spanish cannot keep a military force at every ranch in new mexico. They have all these dispersed settlements. All of these are highly vulnerable. The apaches are mobile. They can attack in outlying settlement and the spanish cannot do much about it. On page 308, he talks about the people of new mexico. Because of extreme poverty, they are wort