A much more painful scandal brewed when Perez Morton
embarked on an adulterous affair with his wife's sister Fanny
, when she came to stay with the family in about 1786. Fanny bore his baby...
Family and Intimate relationships
Abigail Adams
Abigail Smith
married lawyer John Adams
, who was later to become Vice-President, then second President, of the newly-constituted United States.
Akers, Charles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Little, Brown, 1980.