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John Adams

            John Adams the second President of the United States was born in Braintree Massachusetts on October 30, 1735. The oldest some of his father John Adams, who was a farmer and Susanna Bolyston Adams. John Adams was brought up on a farm his grandfather had cleared out for his family over one hundred years earlier. He became greatly attached to Braintree. Adams attended school in Braintree up until age 16 when then he enrolled in Harvard College. Graduating in 1755 Adams took a teaching job in Worcester, Massachusetts. Although a teacher he continued to study, he was most interested in Latin, history, and law. He soon discarded his plan in becoming clergymen and focused on law. He was a very intelligent and disciplined scholar and he gained a great knowledge of law that was probably unheard of in colonial America. In 1758 Adams began to practice law in his hometown of Braintree. He slowly gained recognition as an able lawyer. Then he went on to practice law in Boston. In Boston he had met many interesting men who he would meet up with further down the road. .
             In 1761 John Adams began to feel patriotic. A new King had been appointed in England and a new writ of assistance had to be chosen and approved by the Massachusetts Colony's Superior Court. John Adams father had passed away and because he died John gained a place in the Braintree Town Meetings; this began Johns political career. Some of the first things John had done was making his brother deputy Sheriff and to bar amateurs from practicing law. In 1765 The Stamp act was becoming the big thing, The Stamp Act was issued in March Grenville expected to collect over 60,000 pound in one year from it. The Act forced colonists to buy a tax stamp that cost from half a penny up to 10 pounds. This Act was taxing any thing a colonist was buying, not matter what it was it was being taxed. John began to write and publish a series of news paper essays titled " Dissertation On Canon and Feudal Law.


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1. John Adams

One year after the marriage of Susanna Boylston and John Adams (known as Deacon John), the union was blessed with a son John Adams whom was named after his father on October 19, 1735. ... Abigail (Nabby) the first child born and following with John Quincy, Charles and Thomas Adams. John Adams first publication was A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law. ... John Adams was dead. ... John Adams believed, with all his heart, that no effort in favor of virtue was lost. ...

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2. John Adams

This quote was written by John Adams into his diary, one quiet night after his presidency. ... He was born to John Adams Senior and to Susanna Adams. ... John Adams married Abigail Smith, and together they had five kids; Abigail, Susanna, John Quincy (6th president), Charles, and Thomas. ... John Adams didn't just talk about independence; he did something about it. ... I think that John Adams had a good effect on the lives of Americans all over the U.S. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

3. John Quincy Adams

If anyone was raised to take on the role of the president of the United States, then that person was John Quincy Adams. ... His father, John Adams, studied law at Harvard College, and married Abigail Smith in 1765. On July 11th, 1767, the couple gave birth to their second child, John Quincy Adams. ... Adams served as a law clerk while being trained as an attorney and, although he found he disliked practicing law, John Quincy opened a law office on Court Street in Boston in 1790. ... John Quincy Adams will never be regarded as one of the great presidents of history, but rather as a great politi...

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4. John Q Adams

John Adams had three remarkable careers in his lifetime. ... Adams was born in Quincy, Mass. on October 30, 1735. ... His parents were both fond of reading, wrote John and give him a good education. ... John Adams' presidency that lasted from 1797 to 1801 was a troubled one. Adams made many contributions during his term. ...

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5. John Adams Paper

John Adams once said, "I am but an ordinary Man. ... John Adams made an effort to negotiate a treaty of commerce and friendship with France in 1797-1798. John Adams sent, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry to join Pinckney on a peace mission to France. ... President John Adams made no use of the alien acts. John Adams term will always be remembered for the controversial XYZ affair. ...

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6. Abigail and John Adams

When she was twenty years old, she was married to John Adams, who was thirty-one at the time, in 1764. ... John Adams, on the other hand, was born on October 30th, 1735 in Norfolk, MA. His father was John Adams and his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams. ... John had five children with Abigail Adams and became president in 1797. ... John Adams died on July 4th, 1826 in Braintree, MA. ...

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7. John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826) Birthday: October 30, 1735 State Represented: Massachusetts Presidential Number: 2nd Years he was President: 1797-1801 Party Affiliation: Federalist His Vice President: Thomas Jefferson Number of Terms: 1 Why Presidency Ended: Defeated Vice President For: George Washington (1789-1797) Colonial Government: Mass. Legislature (1768-1774), Continental Congress (1774-1777) Other Offices: Diplomat to France; Diplomat to the Netherlands; Diplomat to Great Britain Public Opinion: 1796 Presidential Election Results Candidate Party Electoral Votes ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

8. Abigail and John Adams - Family Letters on Revolutionary Matters

This position is clearly articulated by Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams, the future second president of the United States, in a series of letters that began in March of 1776 and continued through August of 1783. ... The excerpts from the private correspondence between Abigail Adams and her husband John Adams that are presented in For the Record span a period of seven years when the couple was separated due to the Revolutionary War. ... Adams to John Adams on March 31, 1776 she first addresses the subject by attempting to appeal to the larger political concept on which the colonies had...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

9. John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States of Ame

A child of the American Revolution, John Quincy Adams was the first President of American History whose father, John Adams, also served a term as President of the United States of America. ... Author of John Quincy Adams, Robert V. ... His father would always instruct Abigail on John's daily trainings, "Attention upon great and glorious Objects, root out every little Thing, weed out every Meanness, and make him great and manly- (John Quincy Adams, 3). ... President John Q. ... A quote by Robert V Remini, author of John Quincy Adams, "A dedicated expansionist and defender of huma...

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