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| Name |
John Adams |
| Prefix |
President |
| Birth |
19 Oct 1735 |
Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
4 Jul 1826 |
Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
24 Aug 1877 |
SGEOR |
| FamilySearch ID |
MKNQ-TSF |
| Burial |
United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I90572 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
John Adams, b. 8 Feb 1691, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 25 May 1761, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 70 years) |
| Mother |
Susannah Hannah Boylston, b. 5 Mar 1699, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 17 Apr 1797, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 98 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Oct 1734 |
Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Family ID |
F30026 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Abigail Quincy Smith, b. 22 Nov 1744, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 28 Oct 1818, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Oct 1764 |
Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Abigail Amelia "Nabby" Adams, b. 14 Jul 1765, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 9 Aug 1813, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 48 years) |
| + | 2. President John Quincy Adams, b. 11 Jul 1767, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 23 Feb 1848, Washington, District of Columbia, United States (Age 80 years) |
| | 3. Susanna Adams, b. 28 Dec 1768, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 4 Feb 1770, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 1 year) |
| | 4. Charles Adams, b. 29 May 1770, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Nov 1800, New York City, New York, New York, United States (Age 30 years) |
| | 5. Thomas Boylston Adams, b. 15 Sep 1772, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 13 Mar 1832, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 59 years) |
| | 6. Elizabeth Adams, b. 11 Jul 1777, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 11 Jul 1777, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 0 years) |
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| Family ID |
F30028 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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 | Birth - 19 Oct 1735 - Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Marriage - 25 Oct 1764 - Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Death - 4 Jul 1826 - Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 24 Aug 1877 - SGEOR |
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 | Burial - - United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Notes |
- Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
2nd President of the United States.
John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second Pre s ident of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vic e P resident under President George Washington.
Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political ph i losopher than as a politician. “People and nations are forged in the fi re s of adversity,” he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as th e Am erican experience.
Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educat e d lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegat e t o the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movemen t fo r independence.
During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomat i c roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 h e w as minister to the Court of St. James’s, returning to be elected Vic e Pre sident under George Washington.
Adams’ two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a m a n of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigai l , “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignifican t o ffice that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination con ceiv ed.”
When Adams became President, the war between the French and British wa s c ausing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas an d inte nse partisanship among contending factions within the Nation.
His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling gr o up, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commerc ia l relations.
Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 wo r d arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Director y h ad refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a subst anti al bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate prin ted t he correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only a s “X, Y , and Z.”
The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called “the X. Y. Z. fever,” in c reased in intensity by Adams’s exhortations. The populace cheered itse l f hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists be e n so popular.
Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to buil d a dditional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. I t als o passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreig n agent s out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican edit ors.
President Adams did not call for a declaration of war, but hostilities b e gan at sea. At first, American shipping was almost defenseless agains t Fr ench privateers, but by 1800 armed merchantmen and U.S. warships wer e cle aring the sea-lanes.
Despite several brilliant naval victories, war fever subsided. Word ca m e to Adams that France also had no stomach for war and would receive a n e nvoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war.
Sending a peace mission to France brought the full fury of the Hamiltoni a ns against Adams. In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united a n d effective, the Federalists badly divided. Nevertheless, Adams polle d on ly a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President.
On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the ne w C apital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his secon d ev ening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, “Before I en d m y letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this Hous e an d all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wis e Men e ver rule under this roof.”
Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate lette r s to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last word s : “Thomas Jefferson survives.” But Jefferson had died at Monticello a f e w hours earlier.
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