The United States has been associated with Grosvenor Square in London's Mayfair since the late eighteenth century when John Adams, the first United States Minister to the Court of St. James's and the second President of the United States, lived from 1785 to 1788 in the house which still stands in Grosvenor Square on the corner of Brook and Duke Streets. The house is marked by a plaque erected by the Colonial Dames of America.
"In this House Lived
JOHN ADAMS
First American Minister to GREAT BRITAIN, May 1785 to
March 1788 Afterwards Second President of the UNITED STATES
From here his Daughter ABIGAIL was Married to
COLONEL WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, First Secretary
of the Legation and an Officer in the Revolutionary Army
on WASHINGTON'S staff.
JOHN ADAMS and ABIGAIL, his wife, through Character
and Personality, did much to Create Understanding between the Two English speaking Countries
In their memory this Tablet is Placed by the
Colonial Dames of America 1933."
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