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In highlighting sorority, Jacobs (Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft) opens a new window on the familiar life of Abigail Adams, wife of American Revolution leader and second President of the United States, John. The most well-known of the three sisters, she was born Abigail Smith in 1744, three years after her elder sister, Mary, and six years before her younger sister, Elizabeth. Their brother, William, was born in 1746 and named for their father, a Congregationalist minister. The family resided in Weymouth, Mass., where William supplemented his preacher's salary by farming. Matriarch Elizabeth Smith tutored her daughters in housewifery and community charity, as well as reading, writing, mathematics, and Enlightenment precepts. In 1762 Mary wed Richard Cranch, who was 15 years her senior, self-educated, and unlucky in business. Abigail followed her sister into matrimony two years later, marrying the pugnacious young attorney John Adams. Cycles of pregnancy and childbirth bound Mary and Abigail even closer than they had been growing up. By the time young Elizabeth married Congregationalist minister John Shaw in 1777, the Revolution was well underway. Deftly weaving military and political events of the Revolutionary period with the personal lives of these fascinating sisters, Jacobs has crafted a riveting curl-up-by-the-fireside story. Illus. (Mar.)
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sistersby Diane Jacobs
"Never sisters loved each other better than we."—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
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For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.
"Never sisters loved each other better than we."—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabeth Shaw Peabody, accomplished women in their own right. Now acclaimed biographer Diane Jacobs reveals their moving story, which unfolds against the stunning backdrop of America in its transformative colonial years.
Abigail, Mary, and Elizabeth Smith grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the close-knit daughters of a minister and his wife. When the sisters moved away from one another, they relied on near-constant letters—from what John Adams called their "elegant pen"—to buoy them through pregnancies, illnesses, grief, political upheaval, and, for Abigail, life in the White House. Infusing her writing with rich historical perspective and detail, Jacobs offers fascinating insight into these progressive women's lives: oldest sister Mary, who became de facto mayor of her small village; youngest sister Betsy, an aspiring writer who, along with her husband, founded the second coeducational school in the United States; and middle child Abigail, who years before becoming First Lady ran the family farm while her husband served in the Continental Congress, first in Philadelphia, and was then sent to France and England, where she joined him at last.
This engaging narrative traces the sisters' lives from their childhood sibling rivalries to their eyewitness roles during the American Revolution and their adulthood as outspoken wives and mothers. They were women ahead of their time who believed in intellectual and educational equality between the sexes. Drawing from newly discovered correspondence, never-before-published diaries, and archival research, Dear Abigail is a fascinating front-row seat to history—and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation's democracy was just taking hold.
Advance praise for Dear Abigail
"In a beautifully wrought narrative, Diane Jacobs has brought the high-spirited, hyperarticulate Smith sisters, and the early years of the American republic, to rich, luminous life. . . . A stunning, sensitive work of history."—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra
"Jacobs is a superb storyteller. In this sweeping narrative about family and friendship during the American Revolution, Abigail Adams emerges as one of the great political heroines of the eighteenth century. I fell in love with her all over again."—Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of A World on Fire
"Beauty, brains, and breeding—Elizabeth, Abigail, and Mary had them all. This absorbing history shows how these close-knit and well-educated daughters of colonial America become women of influence in the newly begotten United States. Jacobs's feel for the period is confident; so is her appreciation of the nuances of character."—Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
Editorial Reviews
In highlighting sorority, Jacobs (Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft) opens a new window on the familiar life of Abigail Adams, wife of American Revolution leader and second President of the United States, John. The most well-known of the three sisters, she was born Abigail Smith in 1744, three years after her elder sister, Mary, and six years before her younger sister, Elizabeth. Their brother, William, was born in 1746 and named for their father, a Congregationalist minister. The family resided in Weymouth, Mass., where William supplemented his preacher's salary by farming. Matriarch Elizabeth Smith tutored her daughters in housewifery and community charity, as well as reading, writing, mathematics, and Enlightenment precepts. In 1762 Mary wed Richard Cranch, who was 15 years her senior, self-educated, and unlucky in business. Abigail followed her sister into matrimony two years later, marrying the pugnacious young attorney John Adams. Cycles of pregnancy and childbirth bound Mary and Abigail even closer than they had been growing up. By the time young Elizabeth married Congregationalist minister John Shaw in 1777, the Revolution was well underway. Deftly weaving military and political events of the Revolutionary period with the personal lives of these fascinating sisters, Jacobs has crafted a riveting curl-up-by-the-fireside story. Illus. (Mar.)
"In a beautifully wrought narrative, Diane Jacobs has brought the high-spirited, hyperarticulate Smith sisters, and the early years of the American republic, to rich, luminous life. . . . A stunning, sensitive work of history."—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra
"Jacobs is a superb storyteller. In this sweeping narrative about family and friendship during the American Revolution, Abigail Adams emerges as one of the great political heroines of the eighteenth century. I fell in love with her all over again."—Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of A World on Fire
"Beauty, brains, and breeding—Elizabeth, Abigail, and Mary had them all. This absorbing history shows how these close-knit and well-educated daughters of colonial America become women of influence in the newly begotten United States. Jacobs's feel for the period is confident; so is her appreciation of the nuances of character."—Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
"To turn the pages of this beautifully written biography is to step into the shoes of the three Smith sisters in a brilliant reconstruction of their lives against the backdrop of American history. Their triumphs and sorrows remain with you long after you've finished reading."—Marion Meade, author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
"The three Smith sisters were witnesses to and participants in some of the most important events of early American history, and their spritely letters attest to their indomitable public spirit as well as their familial devotion to each other. In Diane Jacobs's illuminating account of their remarkable lives, the personal is indeed the political as we gain insight into how our country came to be and how the Smith sisters helped to make us into the Americans we are today."—Deirdre Bair, author of Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
"Jacobs weaves a fascinating fabric from the ties that bound, thrilled, and sometimes frustrated America's most beloved Founding Mother to her sisters. A must-read for those interested in the women's lives during the Revolutionary period."—Nancy Rubin Stuart, author of Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
"Jacobs elegantly intertwines the personal with the political. Her intimate accounts of the lives and families of Abigail Adams and her two intellectual, passionately engaged sisters illuminate the history of colonial Massachusetts, eighteenth-century Enlightenment England, Revolutionary Paris, and the nascent United States."—Sydney Ladensohn Stern, author of Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique
"Abigail Adams and her two sisters demonstrate how women, the generals in charge of their families, did so much to make America what it is today. Their three different stories become one magnificent epic in an astonishing feat of narrative history and biography."—Carl Rollyson, author of American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath
Historical ramble through the Revolutionary era via middle sister and intermediary Abigail Adams (1744–1818), who married best. The three Smith sisters of Weymouth, Mass., were inseparable growing up under their minister father and thrifty, charitable mother, and they were remarkably well-educated, as demonstrated by the copious, frequent letters they exchanged throughout their long lives. Liberally excerpted by Jacobs (Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, 2001, etc.), the letters allow readers to plunge into the voices and milieus of these lively characters, who nonetheless were relegated to the sidelines, observing the great events of the new nation unfold while their husbands got to strut about the stage--underscoring how important it was to marry well. Mary, the oldest sister, caught the interest of the girls' tutor, Richard Cranch, due to her "intelligence--not to mention her beauty and goodness," and "their passion quickened as he took it upon himself to initiate all three young women into the pleasures of Enlightenment philosophy, epistolary novels, Milton, Pope, Shakespeare, and also some French." However, Cranch did not pan out well as a scholarly fabricator and farmer, relegating Mary to a life of much scrimping, drudgery and childbearing. Youngest sister Elizabeth, of "keen sensibility and high spirits," was fairly beaten down by her marriage to drunkard Calvinist John Shaw. Abigail, in contrast, married the imperious fireball John Adams, not exactly handsome but brilliant and ironically humorous and with wit to match Abigail's own; her feminist writing, both to husband and sisters, crackles off the page. Readers will cheer when she is finally goaded out of her enforced provincialism by the need to join her husband in his diplomatic mission to Paris in 1784. An intimate, deeply engaging method of following historic events.
Among the many biographies—and collections of the letters—of Abigail Smith Adams, this one by Jacobs (Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft) uniquely focuses on the interconnectedness of Adams with her sisters, Mary Smith Cranch and Elizabeth "Betsy" Smith Shaw Peabody. Jacobs bases her study on their lifelong correspondence. They shared private thoughts on everything from courtship, marriage, and child rearing to philosophical, economic, and political issues. Jacobs makes evident the intense familial bond they had with one another, their spouses, and children as they endured grave illness, isolation, financial hardship, and the frustration of being thinking women in a man's world where intelligent, educated women were discouraged from engaging in substantive communication on nondomestic issues. Letter writing for these self-sacrificing and resilient sisters offered opportunities for sharing family news but also provided an essential forum with like-minded, trusted, supportive females, allowing them a brief respite from mundane yet stressful domesticity. Jacobs uses the sisters' letters to show the women circumventing cultural restrictions in order to assert their influence within and beyond their domestic spheres. VERDICT This sympathetic and engaging treatment of Abigail Adams and her close-knit family will be valued by all readers. It will be of particular interest to devotees of women's studies and early American history.—Margaret Kappanadze, Elmira Coll. Lib., NY
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Jacobs / DEAR ABIGAIL
"Never sisters loved each other better than we"
One hot July evening in 1766, 22-year-old Abigail, the wife of rising young lawyer John Adams, stayed up late to write her 25-year-old sister Mary Cranch how much she missed her. Both were living in the outskirts of Boston—Abigail in Braintree and Mary in Salem, but there were twenty-five miles of bad roads and a river between them. Each had teething infants, reams of housework, and husbands setting out to make their marks in the world.
Still, Abigail was determined to get to Salem before the end of the summer. "I have been Scheeming of it this fortnight," she told her sister. But then John was assailed by one law case after another. She couldn't see herself clear until the lower court adjourned, "and then I hope there will not any more Mountains arise to hinder me. Mole hills I always Expect to find, but them I can easily surmount."1
Mary had told Abigail she woke up at four to cook and clean, mother her baby daughter, and scurry Richard, her brilliant but impractical spouse, off to work. Abigail joked that she and John dozed until eight at least, enjoying the breeze off the Atlantic and indulging "my inclination to Laziness."
Both Mary and Abigail were deeply in love with their husbands, yet lonely for each other and for their teenage sister, Elizabeth, who was still living with their parents a few miles from Braintree in Weymouth. "Sister Betsy, poor Girl her heart is with you, but when her Body will be, is uncertain, "Abigail lamented to Mary, for their worrying mother always found some excuse—Betsy's cough, the sultry New England weather—to keep her home. So the sisters clung to one another by writing.2
They wrote with homemade quill pens and ink produced from their own recipes on Massachusetts bond from the new paper mill in Milton. Composing in moments stolen from spinning or churning butter, or while everyone else was sleeping, with candle wax dripping on their prose, they lamented all the errors they made. Mary had no need to explain that she wrote in great haste: her spotty ink and wild scrawl announced her endless workload. "Burn this letter!" she and Abigail frequently enjoined each other. Betsy made no such request.
Yet, even Betsy, who kept her pen sharp and took pride in her fine cursive, rarely wrote in a tranquil moment. "My brains are all roiled," she characteristically fretted at the end of one letter.
What's more, the colonial postal system, years behind Great Britain's, was so notoriously unreliable that, through no fault of her own, Abigail had just gotten back a letter she wrote Mary a week earlier "like a bad penny." The nearest post office was in Cambridge, so if no neighbor carried it directly, another week might pass before Abigail found a Harvard-bound neighbor willing to send the letter back off.
Still, it was all worthwhile since reading a letter from Mary brought "new spring" to Abigail's nerves and "a brisker circulation to my Blood," creating "a kind of pleasing pain." "I feel so glad that I can scarcely help feeling sorry," she now wrote, and while she conceded this reaction might seem strange, it was perfectly normal when people were connected as deeply as Mary and herself. "Never Sisters Loved each other better than we, I believe I can truly say," she declared.3
"I daily count the days between this and the time I may probably see you," Mary agreed; though, being the eldest, it did not behoove her to effuse as much as her middle sister, and while assuring Betsy, the baby, that she longed for a visit, Mary felt impelled to remind her that their parents' needs came first.4 Honoring those above you and commanding those beneath made life run smoothly: besides, it was God's will.
It would have been obvious to anyone who met them that Abigail, Mary, and Betsy were sisters. Though Mary was darker and taller and Betsy was the slimmest, all were small and slender with oval faces; narrow, decisive mouths; smooth noses; shining brown hair; and clear skin. Their bright dark eyes conveyed authority and a marked intelligence, and they all shared their mother's energetic, self-confident air and passion for doing good, but were surprisingly delicate—they were the first to catch colds and the last to recover. When she was very young, Abigail had been paralyzed for two weeks with rheumatic fever,5 and her childbirths had been far more treacherous than Mary's. It was a battle with death for her to produce a child.6 Betsy, frailest of them all, wilted in the heat and was so weak after one childhood illness that the doctor ordered her not to read, write, work, or even think. It was lucky the "ill humours" attacked her body rather than her mood or she'd be impossible to live with, Abigail observed.7
These sisters had been inseparable since their Weymouth childhood. Weymouth—where their father, William Smith, had been minister of the First Congregational Church since 1734—was a crooked, twelve-mile ride away from Boston. It was a typical New England village, smelling of the yellow blossoms of locust trees in the spring and bayberry bushes in the autumn, sweltering in summer and so cold on a winter night that ink could freeze in your pen. Wild ducks flew overhead, and the wind carried fish scents from the ocean. The town had a population of just over a thousand; its dwellings were wood versions of the brick houses the Puritans had left behind in England, and they ran up and down old Indian trails.
The sisters were born in an age of inspiration and conflict, with the Great Awakening stirring evangelical conversions in the Puritan churches and the Enlightenment championing rational thinking in the libraries of Harvard and Yale. It was the era of Voltaire and Rousseau, Locke and Hume, reason and feeling. Such questions as what constitutes a social contract preoccupied the great minds of the time.
In New England, women's fight for social involvement had died a century before with the banning of Anne Hutchinson's weekly meetings in 1637. Where Hutchinson had borne sixteen children and co-founded the colony of Rhode Island, mothers of the mid-eighteenth century generally sought power only in the private sphere. Out of necessity or conviction, they colluded in their own economic and physical dependence. Most mothers set an example of subservience for their daughters and left public discourse to their husbands and sons.
In 1754—the year Mary turned thirteen—the French and Indian War broke out, extending the worldwide Seven Year War to the colonies. Here it became a contest between England and France for American wealth. Most of the Indian tribes allied with the French hoping to thwart the aggressive spread of the British, while colonists from Maine to Georgia identified wholeheartedly with their English kin. American militias rushed to assist the British forces. In the 1750s, young George Washington made a name for himself vanquishing Indians attacking early pioneers.
Around the dinner table at their father's parsonage, the Smith sisters listened silently as the wisest men in Weymouth analyzed battles in Ohio or Pennsylvania or Louisiana. Out the window crashed the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Across it lay their King and culture. The girls craved British books and British dresses, British concerts and parties and plays. Weymouth, Betsy quipped, was distinguished only "for its inactivity."8 But its wild, hilly farmland and lofty oak trees also moved her, for she was full of delicate feeling—or, as her epoch phrased it, sensibility.
Females ran in the family. The girls' mother, Elizabeth Quincy Smith, was—like Betsy—the youngest of three close sisters. When Elizabeth Quincy married William Smith on October 16, 1740, she moved across the pond from Braintree to Weymouth, where she gave birth to her first child, Mary, on December 9, 1741. Next came Abigail on November 11, 1744, and last Elizabeth on April 7, 1750. Between Abigail and Elizabeth, in 1746, William Smith was born, assuring them a male heir. In terms of salvation, though, men and women were on the same footing. All four siblings, baptized in their father's parish, set off on the uncertain road to eternal life.9
But in the hierarchy of New England, where your family name determined where you sat in church10 and the order in which you graduated in your class at Harvard, the children of William and Elizabeth Smith were already assured a distinguished place. On their father's side of the family lay a line of successful businessmen going back to Thomas Smith, who sailed from England and opened a butcher shop ten miles from Weymouth in the village of Charleston in 1663. His son, the sisters' grandfather, became a wealthy merchant farmer, while their maternal forebearers—Quincys and Nortons—were landed gentry, pastors, and statesmen. On an old parchment, their adored grandmother Quincy traced a family tree back to an ancestor who had fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings and another who had signed the Magna Carta beside King John.
In 1633, the first American Quincy, Edward, had arrived in Massachusetts Bay with a band of defiant English Puritans, who called themselves Congregationalists. These men and women rejected England's state religion, Anglicanism, for its ostentation but accepted its emphasis on the inequality of the educated and the ignorant, the wealthy and the poor. Order, they believed, demanded that one man answer to another. There would be no grandiose Bishops or Lords in Puritan America, but also no pretense of egalitarianism; the humble would doff their hats to privilege—just like at home.
Edward Quincy arrived in America as a gentleman with six servants and enhanced his fortune farming the hilly land he named Mount Wollaston in Braintree, which elected him to the first Massachusetts court. Edward's grandson, John Quincy, the girls' grandfather, all but ran Braintree, serving as Colonel in the Army, Speaker in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and moderator for every town meeting in the precinct for years. A local Indian tribe even chose him as their guardian, praising his fair-mindedness. John Adams complained in his diary that Colonel John Quincy never said anything good about anyone, but admitted he "did not often speak evil" either. He did accumulate the largest library outside of Boston and was as devout as his grandfather Edward. The church remained the most powerful agent in New England life, though over the past half century, religion in New England had changed.
Gone, for instance, was the founders' law, which defined anyone who was not a Puritan as a heretic, subject to having an ear lopped off if he practiced his wayward faith. By Colonel John Quincy's time—he lived from 1689 until 1767—Anglicans and Quakers could not only worship as they liked but exert power in town meetings. These local governments were true democracies for their era. Name and fortune for once were irrelevant. Every property-owning male carried the same weight.
Congregationalism, meanwhile, had radically polarized. On the one hand, the so-called "Old Lights" continued to cherish emotional reticence; on the other, the "New Lights" began fanning self-display. Faith, which for the former was inborn or gently encouraged, came for the latter as ecstatic revelation. Writhing was an inevitable consequence as was—in Abigail's words—"foaming."11
Reverend Smith managed to appease both camps, though he himself was an Old Light, believing, like John Locke, in the superiority of reason to feeling, and refusing to dwell on man's sins. Abigail spoke for her father when she said, "Gloom is no part of my Religion."12 Nor was it easy for him to hide his scorn for the Born Again "awakenings" that charismatic evangelicals like the British George Whitefield and the American Jonathan Edwards were fomenting in New England in the middle of the eighteenth century. Reverend Smith voted against the New Lights in clerical meetings, but would not speak against them at the pulpit. As he saw it, remaining impartial made him popular and therefore useful. Usefulness was the most crucial virtue a Congregationalist could possess.
Besides, he loved philosophy and had an aversion to petty gossip—talk about things, not people, he advised his daughters. He prized forgiveness. On the wall of his main parlor hung a Biblical painting of the brothers Esau and Jacob, embracing after a lifetime of envy and hate. Parson Smith subscribed to foreign papers like the literary Spectator and Tatler and was a shrewd reader of human nature, with a sometimes lurid humor, according to his friends.13 Loss troubled him. Houses struck by lightning and fire were the sort of events he recorded in his diary. Yet he had faith in human endeavor. In August of 1751, only four months after his church burned to the ground, he had already begun raising another. Here he preached a month later, with his family listening from the best pew.14
One evening Reverend Smith amused company by speculating that printing was invented by luck when some careless boy whittled his name onto a tree bark.15 But nothing of importance was left to chance in his home. Self-control and self-improvement carried the day.
Typically, ministers paid for their great prestige with a low standard of living. Salaries were meager and often—as in William Smith's case—based on the price of crops in a given year. Reverend Smith's diary is filled with jottings about minute rises in the costs of wheat or rye, for he was careful about money and determined to get his fair share. Like most ministers, he also farmed to augment his salary. As little girls, the sisters fell asleep beneath the eaves in their wainscoted second-floor bedroom to the trembling of cow bells. They awoke to the sight of three lofty hills, the sound of woodpeckers drilling nests into the spring trees, and a view of fruit orchards and grazing sheep.16
But the Smiths did not rely solely on William Smith's preaching and farming. Thanks to their wealthy relatives, the minister and his wife could afford a silver rather than the standard wood tankard for their dining board and a light, one-horse carriage for two with a calash or hood. They had an upstairs library and paid over a hundred pounds to add a barn-size L-extension to their two-floor wooden home. The house had a slanted roof and sat on the corner of North and East Streets. Windows were taxed, so it was a mark of wealth that they had four, all flooding sunlight into the large formal parlor. Here each of the girls had composed her first letter on a lap desk—and here Betsy now wrote longingly to her married sisters in what John Adams called her "elegant pen."17
Unless, of course, she was visiting the Adamses in their smaller house near their First Congregational Church, in Braintree. Here Betsy and Abigail would "talk[] and wish[] for" Mary while gazing outdoors at the upward swing of Penn's Hill.18 Light and perspective mattered deeply to all of the sisters; so even frugal Mary had thrown caution to the wind when she moved to Salem. Mary's house, which Abigail now had her heart set on visiting, had not only brightness but a splendid view of the wharfs and the sea.
The home the girls grew up in had more than a good lookout. "You must remember that very few children have had such advantage as you have and that where much has been done by way of culture good from it is expected," Elizabeth Quincy Smith wrote her son, Billy, when he left home to work in his teens.19 Billy had been taught Greek and Latin by the finest tutors and plied with new books imported from London. He had the chance to go to Harvard and cared so little for knowledge that he turned it down. Mary loved Billy, more, she believed, than brothers ever loved sisters,20 but was vexed by his indifference to education when she and her sisters were so avid to learn.
And whereas in England daughters were often educated by their fathers—and the early feminist Mary Astell had gone so far as to advocate college for girls!—in the New World females had half the literacy rate of their brothers21 and were taught—by their mothers—only reading, religion, and basic math. Dancing and music classes were considered too frivolous in the Smith household, though William Smith's library was open to everyone, and their mother was advanced in promoting reason rather than dogma. "I have always endevour'd to persuade you to act from principle," Elizabeth Smith explained to Billy in a letter that described her method with all four children. "As soon as you were capable of reasoning you [were] treated like a reasonable creature—when any thing was demanded of you the reason was given."22
Elizabeth taught charity to her daughters by example, as when she turned down stylish imports and hired indigent neighbors to spin the family clothes, or when she risked her own health to visit sick neighbors. She prayed with her children at night and in the morning and sat with them through two church services on Sunday not only because she was pious, but because she was convinced that fear of God warded off sin.23 Industry was also a powerful agent for good. She taught her girls the arduous process of mixing grease and ashes to make a barrel of soap on a spring day and how to trap a goose in a stocking so they wouldn't get their fingers bitten off plucking its feathers for their quill pens. From an early age, Mary, Abigail, and Betsy joined their mother in the autumn ritual of making candles by spinning hemp into wicks and dipping them in kettles filled with water and tallow hung on trammels over the kitchen fire. Though her life was hard enough, Elizabeth Quincy Smith felt lucky by comparison to other Weymouth families and told her children they were too.24
The girls' mother was a model of thrift, and her warning that it was better to save every apple paring than to waste spoke especially to Mary, who was the most cautious of the three.25 Mary was also the most easily comforted, always feeling better as soon as she had "open'd my heart" to someone.26 All three girls were disgusted by females who squandered time or money, for this offended not just God but the sort of man they hoped to wed.
Elizabeth Smith was full of contradictions—so relentless about chaperoning her daughters' fiancés that Abigail suspected she had never been in love herself, but so skillful and kind that Betsy yearned for her nursing for the rest of her life whenever she got sick.27 The community perceived her as the ideal minister's wife, adept at settling quarrels and avoiding feuds.28 Yet, while she held a high standard of excellence, her desires were modest. She wanted to shine in the world as it was, and she did.
Mary, with her pleasing ways, seemed the most like her mother, though inwardly she seethed at the neglect of her mind. "Method was wanting in our studies and we had no one to point us to it," she reminded Abigail when they were both out of the parsonage. ". . . Our parents felt the necessity of keeping us from scenes of dissipation and frivolity and left the rest to nature."29
Still, on the outside at least, Mary was the dutiful firstborn, while Abigail was openly rebellious and wild. "You will either make a very bad or a very good woman," a family friend told her: obviously suspecting the first.30 In her teens Abigail committed the sacrilege of opposing her mother's authority, or, as she saw it, made clear she resented how her mother denied her most innocent requests.
As a child, Abigail was often sent away for long visits to her grandmother Quincy, whom she sometimes thought she loved more than her own mother because she did not invidiously compare her to Mary or rebuke her more than once for a crime. Besides, Grandmother Quincy could be wicked herself—whispering to Abigail that it was "a mercy to the world" some people they knew were "kept poor" or they would be even haughtier than they were already,31 and regaling her with spicy anecdotes from the local newspapers, such as the story of the wife who poured red wine in her husband's pipe.32
And then there was Betsy, who was just as high-spirited as Abigail and even less free to express herself. She could not run off to her grandmother's because she was the youngest and—unlike her also unmarried and far less industrious brother—always had duties to perform at home. Where Billy wasted his chances to learn, she grasped every free moment to read, and not just enthusiastically, but with a cultivated taste that would have ranged wider, she was sure, if one duty or another wasn't always calling her from her father's books. The final insult came during Mary's and Abigail's brief visits when—rather than at last having time to enjoy herself—Betsy was given the further burden of amusing their little girls. "I am almost crazed with the natural Blessings of Matrimony," she wrote her cousin Isaac during one such visit. Then she herself got sick, and four months passed before she had the strength to read, which would not be so terrible for this cousin, who was off at Harvard and could "spend whole years in the delightful employment of improving [your] mental powers. Shortness of the time enhances its value and makes the loss greivous to me," she reported with her normal dramatic flair.33
Meet the Author
Diane Jacobs is the author of Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges, But We Need the Eggs: The Magic of Woody Allen, and Hollywood Renaissance: The New Generation of Filmmakers and Their Works. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Columbia University. Jacobs has taught at Dartmouth College, the Columbia University School of the Arts, and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and has contributed to such publications as The New York Times and The Village Voice. She lives in New York City.
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Extremely well written and historically accurate. It was well researched. The lives of these ladies show how important the American women were to our history. Highly recommend it.
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There are 14 comments on the The Bandera County Courier story from Dec 8, 2011, titled Sharp announces candidacy. In it, The Bandera County Courier reports that:My name is Scott Anthony Sharp. Since community leaders and citizens alike have urged me to continue my efforts in cleaning up this county, I am announcing my candidacy for Sheriff of Bandera County in the 2012 General Election.
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He's running under the republican party....and would it really matter? We need change here! It's not like the Sheriff is going to make policy related to abortion, health care, foreign policy or even gun control. We need a sheriff no matter what party he or she runs under who cares about us...the people who live here. Who will take out the corruption that has found it's way into OUR world. Just as Sharp's literature which he has put out there says..."a proven choice against crime and corruption". No other candidate has proven they are strong enough or even brave enough to do that. No other candidate has the longevity in their career to make the changes we need and continue through the years without "retiring" again and leaving us in a rut once again. I think sharp has the insight into the BCSO that we need to clean out the bad and retain the good! No other candidate can say that, not even McGilvray who has never held an administrative position at the BCSO with his alleged experience that he says he has. If Sharp is elected, those who are corrupt will run and hide and he will bring us what this county has been waiting for. No one need come out of retirement, just to lose interest and not complete their term or move on to manage a hotel somewhere! Let's hire a true cop...one that won't put up with any ones shit, who will challenge the powers that be to do what is right for us....the taxpayers of this county. It's time for us to feel safe again....or maybe even for once.
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How is the divorce going? Will there be charges against Sharp for attempted and for sure... threatened his family in a drunken outrage?
#4 Jan 1, 2012
What Scott fails to mention is that he wasa part of the old regime, until he got upset that he was not appointed sheriff after the old one retired. He is as crooked as the rest of them and I will never vote for him...good luck.
#5 Jan 1, 2012
Oh, and wasn't his son fired for having sex in the jail, with an inmate? I think it shows Scott's integrity is a possible issue here.
#6 Jan 3, 2012
Hey MiniMouse and to Too bad he is running. Smells like cop to me. What did this Sharp do to you? How would anyone know about any incident about his wife or ex-wife, just can't have someone fair run. I hope he get's it, I'm sure he'll run off all those deadbeat losers at the Sheriff office. It's time for a change and I feel he's it. That moran David and Allan could'nt solve a case if it was layed out for them. Allen should've retired when his dirty brother got popped for corruption, but I guess he's a mason too or needs the money to support his brother.
#7 Jan 4, 2012
No, not a cop, just know his type and have heard a lot about him. Sorry if you want to waste a vote but I am not going to. I plan to vote for the right candidate, whoever that may be at election time.It amazes me how people like you always assume only other cops dont like Scott. You forget that in Bandera county, word gets aroud fast here.
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Well it surprise's me that people like you are so closed minded, oh and Mr.Citizen just for information the gossip runs rampid in Bandera, just so you know, well it is what it is. So out of curiosity who's the right man?
#9 Jan 4, 2012
The right man? I think these folks would like to see Boss Hog tucker back. Oh hell I forgot his brother is back.
The whole lot who lied to the grand jury and the AG's office should be fired. All of them.
When they pull you over are they gonna lie about that too? They are LIARS in charge of keeping the law in Bandera and they have already proven they have no respect for the law.
These poster sure as hell sound like cops or their wives they way they spread rumors. Bunch of old hens with nothing else to do than throw down on Sharp.
You know when Tucker's boy was caught doing dope no one said it was the old mans fault did they. What about when Brantley's boy smoked the evidence out of the evidence room. No it was just an isolated thing and certainly not daddy's fault.
How about that son of ex county attorney Schneider???? He had a rap sheet longer than his arm and mommy was never questioned.
How about Smith's son caught stealing from the jail--Smith is still there after hiring his own son.
These people want to spread rumors there is more than enough public officials to have a lot of fun with.
Yes I know Sharp was there too but at least he had the guts to stand up to the system which is more than most of these people are going to do.
#10 Jan 4, 2012
Shadow you've summed it all up and you sure are exactly right, but the true facts are that these people are one sided and don't like change or growth. It's like a small town I used to live in far far away, I won't mention where it is but they wanted to build a Wal-Mart, but the community did'nt want it cause it would drive out the small business owners. These small business owners' prices were outragious, they would rather have these corrupt people running these stores making a rediculous profit. It really didn't matter to the poor ranchers, myself included, we would go to the neighboring cities to buy supplies again giving another town money for revenue. The same thing occurs here we just don't know about it as citizens look at Judge Evans didn't the Mason's oh!,(I meant the commissioners) buying the property from Evans to build the new Sheriff's department, nothing but corruption, then you have A. Tucker the brother of the ex-Sheriff as the luitenant, pure nepotism. I've said this on another sight I've lived in the city of Bandera for years and that's why I left that other small town, it happens everywhere you go, there's no need to leave your town just band together as tax payers. Shadow It's time for change and who better than Sharp, someone who knows the inside and wouldn't need assistance for outside agencies on how to run the county cause they're new to everything in Bandera.
#11 Jan 4, 2012
I don't know whether Sharp is the right man but I wouldn't disqualify him because he sued the pants off this corrupt county.
The commissioners knew what he was about when they hired him.
I watched the whole trial in SA when he was sued for shooting an unarmed suspect from behind that was in full retreat in a wooded area that posed no threat to any civilian. Like to have blown the kids leg clear off. The doctors had to finish the job and a bleeding heart jury set him free.
Where in the book does it say it is ok to use deadly force on a fleeing suspect you just searched and knew had no gun.
This suspect was growing marijuana and selling it. Last time I checked that is not a hanging offense.
When Tucker got away with that he felt ten feet tall and bullet proof himself.
Now we are left with the deputies and a Tucker that lied their collective azzes off and they stand in judgement on the citizens of Bandera County.
The new Sheriff needs to fire all deputies that were using the County rescue boat and especially the ones that lied to the grand jury to help their former boss Tucker.
Yes we need to band together and stop this corruption once and for all.
#12 Jan 4, 2012
I got carried away-I met the commissioners knew what Tucker was when they hired him not Sharp.
Just think next is Mario Hernendez suit alleging the same thing as Sharp and the county's star witness is a convicted ex sheriff who took a plea to felony count. I just have to laugh.
Hernandez will receive at least the $270,000 just like Sharp because Tucker treated them exactly the same.
No Hernandez, if he has any brains will hold out for more because the Texas Asso. of Counties knows they are on the hook here and the sky is the limit.
Personally I think Sharp settled too soon but it is what it is..
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#13 Jan 8, 2012
I agree.
#14 Feb 6, 2012
What's going on.
Lots of covering up going on in Bandera.
I noticed that old mouthy judge has been keeping a low profile.
He will be involved in the Hernenadez case because he just couldn't resist trying to get Hernandez fired when he went to work for the city.
The County Judge should have never gotten himself involved in that just because he was mad Hernandez found a job.
It would serve the Judge right if Sharp got elected.
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Hoods are a farm accessory definitely in fashion for the Great Barrier Reef.
By putting hoods (or shields) on their weed sprayers, hundreds of farmers like Victor Guarrera have reduced the amount of herbicides they need to keep their cane crops clear of weeds. In fact, Victor has cut his herbicide use in half!
The hoods direct the spray straight down onto the weeds which are trying to gain a foothold in between the rows of cane – meaning none of the chemical drifts up and away to harm the environment or the crop.
Russell Jordan's intelligent irrigation system aims for zero runoff – so no water, silt, fertiliser or anything else leaves his Burdekin paddocks. And if nothing is running off, there's zero impact on the water quality of the creeks nearby and the marine environment.
The system also means he can turn his irrigation on and off even if he's hundreds of kilometres from his farm. His cane blocks tell him when they need a drink and if he gets distracted, the water is shut off before any is wasted. That's a saving in electricity and water.
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The Great Barrier Reef doesn't need fertiliser so sugarcane farmers like the Accornero family are working to make sure it doesn't get any.
Stephen and Brenden use specialist machinery to ensure the fertiliser which is vital for their sugarcane crop, goes only where it's needed – right into the root ball of the cane.
By splitting the ground and burying the granules, the likelihood of it washing away is minimised. It also means that the smallest amount can be applied to get the maximum return, saving them money and boosting production at the same time!
Click here to read more about the Accornero family farms (PDF)
Michael's trash is just what the Great Barrier Reef needs - not the trash that goes to the dump but a thick mulch blanket which holds moisture, reduces erosion and combats weeds.
Along with other growers around Ingham, Michael stopped burning his sugarcane decades ago. When the harvester cuts the green cane, tonnes of mulch (which farmers call trash) is left on the paddocks. High-tech machinery means Michael keeps his herbicide use a minimum, spraying only where a weed is seen.
As a Reef Hero, Michael took a leading role in re-designing water flow in his district. Wetlands, swales and pumps control, slow and filter the water. Now the area is flourishing with reeds, insects and waterlilies and is home to flocks of ducks and other waterbirds.
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As a fourth generation cane farmer, Gerard want to make sure he was managing his land sustainably and keeping his soil, fertiliser and pesticides on his paddocks — and not heading out to the Great Barrier Reef.
With government support, he's been able to do this. To spread the word about what the industry is doing, he's opened his Mossman farm up to tourists and fronted a TV commercial.
"These efforts are starting to pay off, with evidence showing water quality is improving," he says. "By reducing my fertiliser run-off, I'm helping to prevent more frequent outbreaks of crown of thorns starfish, one of the biggest impacts on the reef.
I am proud to be working to protect the Great Barrier Reef."
Click here to watch an ABC-TV Landline program featuring Gerard Puglisi
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This farming couple has spent weeks pushing tonnes of dirt and gravel around, all with the Great Barrier Reef firmly in sight!
Ray and Rosemary Vicarioli have turned an eroded and deep drainage ditch into a sophisticated underground water filtering system. Now, any water flowing from nearby cane and banana paddocks is cleaned of sediment before it heads into a creek and out to sea.
The earthworks are not the only reasons the Vicariolis are Reef Heroes. They've ensured that hilly paddocks are contoured to slow water flow, soil tillage is kept to a minimum and natural watercourses are revegetated so the property is a haven for wildlife.
Click here to read and see more about the water filtering drain (PDF)
Want to visit Ray and Rosemary's farm? Click here for a video of their other Reef Hero projects
Doug Rasmussen and his sons Justin and Rodney are proud of their 235 hectares of sugarcane between Port Douglas and Mossman and take their guardianship of the Great Barrier Reef seriously.
Doug says farming methods which are sustainable can also maximise yields.
The Rasmussen's stopped burning their cane and moved to trash blanketing over 30 years ago - and they haven't looked back. The giant mulch blanket keeps soil, water and fertiliser on their farm.
And by spreading a by-product of the sugar milling process, called filter mud, they've reduced the amount of fertiliser they use by 25%! The 'filter mud' is naturally high in lime and other key nutrients.
The whole farm is designed to work with its surroundings - paddocks slope the right way and at the right angle to ensure rainfall moves as slowly and evenly as possible, preventing erosion. Any soil which is washed away during the wet season is captured, collected and put back on low lying areas.
Ingham grower Paul Marbelli has received several awards for improved productivity through best management practices - but that was not the motivation behind his business model. With a young son and an innate desire to leave his four farms in as good or better condition than when he started, Paul recognises that today's farming needs a combination of skill and using whatever means are available to improve, including the Australian Government Reef Programme packages (formerly Reef Rescue).
Paul has completed soil, nutrient, weed and pest management courses, and has a commercial chemical operator's licence that allows him to own and operate a high clearance spray tractor so he can control the direction and quantity of chemical use. This benefits his profitability and also the environment.
Paul was an early convert to the sub-soil fertiliser application method meaning he could stop broadcasting the expensive commodity unnecessarily. Instead, he places the granules underground for new plantings and under the trash blanket of ratoon crops.
Martin Cek came into the sugar industry with the goal of boosting productivity and ultimately achieving a crop of 20,000 tonnes farmed in a sustainable way.
He's redesigned a 253 hectare cattle and rice property west of Mareeba for sugarcane. At the centre of his farming philosophy is a desire to disturb the soil as little as possible - a concept known as minimal till. And by planting into wider rows, the area compacted by farm machinery is minimised. He also aims to improve his yields through fallowing paddocks, giving the soil a rest from cane and using legumes to help nourish it.
Efficient management is essential for the Tableland farm, as it depends on water from the Mareeba-Dimbulah irrigation system to make the land productive. Martin's wife, Nicky, is the operations financial controller..
Farming on floodplains in the Riversdale area, Mario Raccanello is keenly focused on reducing run-off. He's set up a safety net of nutrient traps to all drains before the water discharges into inland lagoons surrounded by vegetation. Grass filters are maintained on all the exits before water enters the Tully River.
Mario has weed and nutrient management plans for his 330 hectare farm, on which he grows 30,000 tonnes of cane with 50 hectares of fallow.
A GPS system in all the farm's main machinery keeps it within 2cm accuracy. Software is used to record all activities and inputs. Mario uses a variable rate fertiliser bin to apply a prescriptive fertiliser blend and all spraying is done with a rate controller.
Mario says the pin-point accuracy of machinery and the protection measures that farmers exert on their farms result in beautiful, healthy systems, appreciated by an abundant number of crocodiles, birds and fish.
Shaun Betteridge's decision to swap his grease and oil rags for the earthly pursuit of sugarcane farming nearly 20 years ago has stirred more passion within the young agriculturalist than he ever could have imagined and the fire shows no signs of extinguishing.
Under 40 years of age, Shaun is an unusual sight in an industry with a relative age closer to double his years. He is not afraid to utilise the knowledge bank of his fellow growers to improve his own farming productivity and practices.
Situated about 10 km south of Home Hill, Shaun's block has certainly presented some challenges with a patchwork of sand, clay and rich black soils that all pass through a ponding system to a lagoon where he runs about half a dozen head of cattle to reduce a fire hazard.
Shaun's focus on his soils has not only boosted the soil and his profitability, but also his confidence as his yield and sugar content in his cane increased
Proserpine growers, the Faletti family, say diversification, working together and machinery sharing underpin the success of the operation. Brothers Robert, Marc, Maurice, and their father John, together with their wives, own separate cane growing enterprises just north of Proserpine but farm as one unit to produce maximum tonnage from available land in an efficient, sustainable manner.
They share equipment to help minimise the costs of equipment purchase and repairs. This successful cooperation arrangement involves using Andrew's GPS-guided billet planter and their 1997 model Toft harvester and a 10-tonne Carta bin. This saves them from having to buy extra machinery to each have a complete planting kit.
All cane is trash blanketed on rows mostly 1.6 m wide. They select the most suitable varieties for their mix of soils, which includes alluvial loams and some heavy black clays. Cane is kept young through rotation. Their 8 metre wide, high clearance spray unit based on a Fiat tractor does five rows at a time, covering up to 16 hectares (40 acres) in a day.
They save money by doing much of their own machinery repairs and fabrication. Robert and Marc are qualified mechanics and although Maurice does not have formal trade qualifications he has boiler-making experience and has done a TAFE course.
The Lay family has set a farming goal of high cane production at least cost using efficient, sustainable farming methods.
The success of their best practice farming approach is clearly evident in the productivity results recorded year after year on their adjoining farms at Homebush in Mackay's prime irrigated cane area. Their crop management system is based on controlled traffic, GPS guidance, zonal tillage, break cropping with soybeans and efficient fertilising and weed control.
Everything Gary Lay and his family does is designed to save time, labour and fuel. Covering multiple rows in each pass is one way this is achieved. Now all cane is trash blanketed, most of the land is laser levelled and drains and headlands are carefully maintained.
Isis cane grower John Kingston has always been quick to get involved with new ideas and making them work. The zonal rotary hoe in his shed is a prime example where John has taken up the idea of only cultivating the planting zone for cane and soybeans and then helping to develop a three-row rotary that is now sold throughout the industry.
GPS is fully implemented on the Kingston's farms and John is moving toward using the technology to feed data into their business's record-keeping. One of John's sons has recently returned to work on the farm and together they are trialling the FarmWorks system to track inputs.
John is also looking into using the handheld GPS to mark things like areas of weed outbreaks, soil testing sites, underground drains and the like. Their harvest contractor also has GPS in the cab so there is potential to add harvesting data too at a later stage.
Ashley Petersen believes that for the Australian sugarcane to stay competitive, it has to concentrate on low-cost production. Ashley farms with his father, Lloyd, three brothers and two members of the fifth generation of the family.
The Petersens have implemented a controlled traffic system across their 450 ha of cropping land in the Maryborough – Hervey Bay district. Ashley has complete confidence in the dual-row raised beds they use to grow cane, pineapples and soybeans in rotation. He uses raised beds to drain water away, preventing water-logging, but just as importantly, moisture is conserved in the uncompacted beds in dry weather.
He says the farming system has returned significant benefits to their business, including improved net profits. They have seen a 30% reduction in tractor hours on one farm alone as say this type of reduction makes a huge difference to efficiency - not only the less distance travelled per hectare coupled with the higher pour rate means more tonnes in the bin per hour.
Rocky Point fourth-generation cane grower Tony Huth treads a fine line between prudent investment in farming operations that maximise productivity, efficiency, sustainability and over-capitalisation of a cane enterprise.
His father Ron still helps with farming chores as does Tony's son, Justin, who will be the fifth generation cane grower if he achieves his fervent desire to secure a career in the industry.
Tony Huth has carefully tailored his crop management and machinery utilisation on land at Norwell and Jacob's Well to optimise yields, limit costs and minimise labour requirements. Tony achieves better than average yields on some of the poorest country in the mill area, including low-lying acid sulphate prone soils and salty sandy areas.
Robert Quirk has run a 200 ha cane farm at Duranbah in northern New South Wales for nearly 50 years. He is well known for trialing and implementing innovative farm practices and for his contributions to improving land and water management through on-farm action, scientific research and community involvement.
His approach to farming the Tweed Valley's acid sulfate-rich volcanic and tidal soils, enabled him to reduce chemical use by 25%, decrease heavy metal and acidity discharge by 80%, and increase productivity by 38%.
Many of the practices Robert has developed on farm are now considered world's best practice for farming acid sulfate soils. Not surprisingly, the Quirk family farm has become a popular stop-over for politicians, growers, engineers, tourists and students.
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3 die from 'carbon monoxide'
A woman, her elderly parents and the family dog have died in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning at a caravan park in Cornwall, say police.
A woman, her elderly parents and the family dog have died in a suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning at a caravan park in Cornwall, say police.
Tributes have been paid to a family of three who all died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a caravan park.
It's thought they that John and Audrey Cook, their daughter Maureen and pet dog were killed by fumes from a faulty heater. Fire officers say having gas appliances checked every year and fitting an carbon monoxide alarm could save lives.
Everyone here is in total shock. You never think that something like this would happen on your own doorstep.
John, Audrey and Maureen were lovely people. It's so upsetting to think that three members of the same family have been wiped out in one go."
I saw Maureen and her mum on Thursday morning when they were walking their dog.
Maureen asked about my dog and her mum commented on the cold weather and then they went. That's the last time I saw them.
They were a lovely family who loved their dog and their home. The whole community is shocked and devastated."
There was disappointment for Exeter City fans at Wembley this afternoon as they lost the League Two play-off final.
The moment Sir Francis Chichester returned to Plymouth after his round-the-world voyage has been recreated today 50 years on.
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Your citizen service number (CSN)
As a result of registering with the municipality you will be assigned a citizen service number (CSN), which will be sent to your home address. A CSN is required in order to be permitted to work, open a bank account, make use of a health care institution and to apply for benefits or an allowance.
Which type of registration?
There are two types of possible municipal registration dependent on the length of your stay in the Netherlands. Highly skilled migrants who will be resident for four months or less should read more about the registration procedure for short stay migrants. Anyone coming from abroad to work or study still requires a CSN number, even for short stays. For those migrants who will be resident in the Netherlands for longer than four months, please read on for more details about the standard registration procedures.
Where to register in Amsterdam
There are three places to register in Amsterdam depending on the purpose of your stay:
IN Amsterdam (formerly 'Expatcenter Amsterdam')
- Highly skilled migrant registration is arranged when collecting the initial residence permit.
- Highly skilled migrants who receive their residence permit directly from the IND can use this form to schedule an appointment for municipal registration.
- EU citizen working for a company that is recognised as an official sponsor by the IND.
- Intermediaries (relocation agent, immigration lawyer, tax adviser, company contact, etc.) can make an appointment for registration.
Please note, there are applicable service fees when using IN Amsterdam's streamlined services.
Amsterdam City Hall or City Office Zuidoost
- All other registrations should take place at the Amsterdam City Hall or City Office Zuidoost. This includes EU citizens working for a company that is not recognised as an official sponsor by the IND. For more information or to make an appointment, call the City of Amsterdam's helpline number: 14 020 or +31 (0)20 624 1111 (if calling from abroad).
Registration requirements
Please note that everyone living in or moving to Amsterdam is required to register their address in the Municipal Personal Records Database (BRP). It's also very important to be registered at the actual and correct address of residence. Depending on individual circumstances, it may be necessary to present relevant birth, marriage or death certificates and other required documentation to the municipality upon registering for the first time.
Failure to register at the correct address, to notify the municipality of a change of address on time and to present all relevant documents is punishable and the municipality can impose a fine of up to €325.
For more information about being registered in Amsterdam, please refer to www.amsterdam.nl/basisregistratiepersonen (in Dutch) and this brochure in English.
Required documents
Not all documents are automatically valid in the Netherlands. The civil registry and IN Amsterdam will only accept official documents in Dutch, English, French or German. An official translation will be required for other languages. Some documents may also require proof of authenticity (legalisatie). For more information click here.
Please note: as of 6 January 2014, highly skilled migrants from outside the EU with the official residence status of knowledge migrant or scientific researcher no longer have to present a copy of their birth certificate when registering at the town halls in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Almere, Diemen, Haarlem, Haarlemmermeer, Hilversum and Velsen.
Accompanying partner and/or children
Partners and/or children must also register with the municipality. To do so, make an appointment to visit IN Amsterdam (provided at least one member of the family meets the IN Amsterdam criteria mentioned above) or the registration department in Amsterdam City Hall or City Office Zuidoost in person. The following documents are required to register an accompanying child and/or partner:
- Marriage certificate
- Birth certificate of child(ren)
- Deed of adoption or acknowledgement of child(ren)
Please note: Registration at the Amsterdam City Hall or City Office Zuidoost is free; fees apply for registration at IN Amsterdam.
Further information
If you require further information, call the city information number 14 020 (Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 18:00). If you are calling from abroad, please call +31 (0)20 624 1111.
IN Amsterdam partners
See a list of IN Amsterdam's partners, including translation services.


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By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
DETROIT At least in its dreams, General Motors (GM) hopes to beat Toyota (TM) at its own hybrid game.
Having given up on pure electric vehicles a decade ago, GM announced a new type of plug-in hybrid Sunday that could give inner-city commuters the equivalent of 150 miles per gallon.
PHOTO GALLERY: 2007 Detroit auto show
But the Chevrolet Volt, as the concept car at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit is being called, comes with a big "if."
The decision on whether to produce a car like Volt largely depends on whether an affordable lithium-ion battery can be developed.
"It's dependent on an improvement in battery technology that may occur next year or may occur in 20 years," says Bradley Berman, editor of Hybridcars.com. "To pin your hopes on a technology that may not pan out doesn't help our immediate problems concerning fuel efficiency, oil dependency and the environment."
But GM officials are optimistic. They say a car like Volt could be on the road within a decade. "We're pretty confident this isn't a moon shot," says Jon Lauckner, a GM vice president.
The Volt would be similar to hybrids such as Toyota's popular Prius, combining a hulking battery and electric motor with a supplemental gasoline engine. Unlike the current-model Prius, the Volt could be plugged into an ordinary wall socket in a garage overnight to recharge its battery.
Also unlike the Prius, the Volt would never run directly off its gasoline engine. When the stored power from being plugged in runs out, the engine would charge the battery. All the car's motive power would come from its electric motors.
The result: a vehicle that could run for 40 miles on its electric charge alone. A commuter who traveled 60 miles round trip a day would get the equivalent of 150 miles per gallon of gas.
Even if the car hasn't been plugged in, the setup would be thrifty enough that the electricity from the three-cylinder turbocharged gas engine alone would deliver 50 mpg.
"For many drivers, the Chevy Volt will use little or no gasoline," says Tony Posawatz, a GM manager.
GM CEO Rick Wagoner says the company is getting more serious about electric vehicles, seeing them as an energy solution in crowded cities around the world. GM already offers hybrid versions of the Saturn Vue SUV, will add a more capable hybrid Vue next year and eventually a plug-in version.
The moves mark a reversal from GM's last effort at electric transportation, Saturn EV1 of the 1990s, which flopped.
EV1 never caught on with drivers in California, where it was sold to try to get the automaker in compliance with rules that mandated that some vehicles have zero emissions. Because it didn't also have a gas engine, EV1's range was limited to about 90 miles a charge.
Between its overnight charge and a full tank of gas, Volt would have range of 640 miles, more than most of today's vehicles, GM says. Volt would have a top speed of 120 miles per hour. EV1 was limited to about 80 mph.
Advocates for environmentally friendly vehicles think a car like the Volt shows promise.
"It's darn intriguing car," says Chelsea Sexton, executive director of Plug In America, a group that advocates for electric cars. She says that the battery issues shouldn't hold up the show. Now, she adds, putting plug-in hybrids on the streets is more a matter of corporate will.
Another alternative-fuel specialist, Ron Cogan, publisher of the Green Car Journal, says Volt is proof that GM sees promise in hybrids.
"I would look at the Volt as tangible evidence that GM gets it, (that) they have listened to customers," he says. "It's not just smoke and mirrors. They can't afford smoke and mirrors at this point."