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Letter from Abigail Adams to Mary Cranch
November 15, 1797
Ink on Paper
Abigail Adams was unable to vote in her home state of Massachusetts. But in this 1797 letter to her sister, she discusses her desire to vote for Reverend Kilborn Whitman as a candidate for the ministry of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 had called for ministers to be elected by “towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious society.” It did not mention a gender qualification for those voters.
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society
Letter from Abigail Adams to Mary Cranch
November 15, 1797
Ink on Paper
Abigail Adams was unable to vote in her home state of Massachusetts. But in this 1797 letter to her sister, she discusses her desire to vote for Reverend Kilborn Whitman as a candidate for the ministry of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 had called for ministers to be elected by “towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious society.” It did not mention a gender qualification for those voters.
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society
Letter from Abigail Adams to Mary Cranch
November 15, 1797
Ink on Paper
Abigail Adams was unable to vote in her home state of Massachusetts. But in this 1797 letter to her sister, she discusses her desire to vote for Reverend Kilborn Whitman as a candidate for the ministry of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 had called for ministers to be elected by “towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious society.” It did not mention a gender qualification for those voters.
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society
Letter from Abigail Adams to Mary Cranch
November 15, 1797
Ink on Paper
Abigail Adams was unable to vote in her home state of Massachusetts. But in this 1797 letter to her sister, she discusses her desire to vote for Reverend Kilborn Whitman as a candidate for the ministry of the Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 had called for ministers to be elected by “towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious society.” It did not mention a gender qualification for those voters.
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society