"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."