Abigail Adams writes to her husband from their home in Quincy (then Braintree).

In the letter to John Adams, who is attending the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, she urges that, “in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.”