John  ADAMS

JOHN ADAMS, the second President and the first Vice-President of the United States, was born in Braintree (now Quincy) Mass., and about ten miles from Boston, October 19, 1735. His great-grandfather, Henry Adams, emigrated from England about 1640, with a family of eight sons, and settled at Braintree. The parents of John were John and Susannah (Boylston) Adams.* His father, who was a farmer of limited means, also engaged in the business of shoemaking. He gave his eldest son, John, a classical education at Harvard College. John graduated in 1755, and at once took charge of the school at Worcester, Mass. This he found but a “school of affliction,” from which he endeavored to gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the study of law. For this purpose he placed himself under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He had thought seriously of the clerical profession, but seems to have been turned from this by what he termed “the frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of

ADAMS, JOHN
Ancestor #: A000585
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Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Birth: 10-31-1735 BRAINTREE SUFFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 7-4-1826 QUINCY NORFOLK CO MASSACHUSETTS
Service Source: BARTHELMAS, THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, PP 8-10
Service Description: 1) SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; MEMBER, 1ST & 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS;
2) MINISTER TO FRANCE, 1777; COMMISSIONER APPOINTED TO CONCLUDE THE TREATY OF PARIS

COMMENTS(Overview)
1) EL - THOMAS BOYLESTON ADAMS HAS NO KNOWN LIVING DESCENDANTS.
2) FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVIDE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION PROVING LINEAGE.

RESIDENCE
1) City: BRAINTREE - County: SUFFOLK CO - State: MASSACHUSETTS

SPOUSE
1) ABIGAIL SMITH

The presidential election was the first contested election in the United States. When the final tabulation of votes arrived at the senate, ironically it was Adams who opened the envelope as he was President of the Senate. John Adams won with seventy one votes and Thomas Jefferson received sixty eight therefore becoming Vice President. As expected Adams received every Electoral College vote from New England while Jefferson controlled the South. Adams served for one term from 1797 to 1801 and was succeeded by Thomas Jefferson.