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• FamilySearch ID: LZN3-DHT
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6654842

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Mother of 2nd United States President John Adams and grandmother of 6th United States President John Quincy Adams. She died one month after her son became President.

Dispute: According to the Adams Museum in Quincy, MA, they do not know where Susannah (Boylston) (Adams) Hall is buried. Her second husband was Lieutenant John Hall of Braintree. When Deacon John Adams died on 25 May 1761, Susannah remarried on 17 Oct 1766 in Braintree, MA to Lieutenant John Hall (born: 27 Mar 1698, Rehoboth, MA; died 27 sep 1780, Quincy, MA). I have never been able to find th buial site of Lieutenant John Hall who is a member of my family. His father was John Hall, born in Braintree 23 Nov 1650, died in Rehoboth in Sep 1721. His grandfather was Edward Hall, born 1611, Henbury, Gloucestershire, England, immigrated 1636 to Plymouth Colony, and died in Rehoboth, MA 27 Nov 1670 (that part of Rehoboth is now Rumford, RI).

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Susannah married Deacon John Adams, Sr. on 23 Nov 1734 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. John (son of Joseph G. Adams, Jr. and Hannah Bass) was born on 8 Feb 1690/91 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was christened on 15 Mar 1690/91 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 25 May 1761 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was buried after 25 May 1761 in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Susannah married Lt. John Hall on 17 Oct 1766 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. John (son of John Hall and Mary Newell) was born on 27 Mar 1698 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 27 Sep 1780; was buried after 27 Sep 1780 in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
• Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War
• FamilySearch ID: MKNQ-TSF
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 3069
• Occupation: Federalist, 2nd President of the United States
• Reburial: Aft 4 Jul 1826, United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Notes:

John Adams nickname was Duke of Braintree.

John Adams served as the first Vice President of the United States under George Washington from 1789 to 1797.

John Adams served in the capacity of President of the United State from 1797 to 1801.

His Vice President was Thomas Jefferson.
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From FindaGrave:

2nd United States President, first United States Vice President, Signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and Revolutionary War Patriot.

Born the first of two sons to John and Susanna Boylston Adams, he was born in Braintree, Massachusetts (now part of Quincy, MA), where his father was a Puritan farmer, a lieutenant in the militia, a town selectman (town councilman), and a descendant of the first settlers who had arrived in 1636 to found the town.

John attended Harvard College, and after graduating in 1755, taught school in Worcester, Massachusetts for a few years. He decided that he wanted to become a lawyer, and studied law under James Putnam, a prominent lawyer in Worcester. In 1758, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

A careful student, he would write detailed descriptions of events, court cases, and impressions of men, so that he could later study them and reflect upon them. His 1761 notes of the court argument of attorney James Otis on the legality of the Writs of Assistance has served to be one of the best historical records of that argument, helping historians to understand both that law, the public perceptions of the effects of that law, and the patriotism that existing in James Otis.

With the Stamp Act of 1765, Adams rose to prominence as an opponent of the king, in which he argued to the Royal Governor that without representation in Parliament, Massachusetts had not assented to the Stamp Act.

In 1770, following the Boston Massacre, the British soldiers involved were charged with murder. When no lawyer in Boston would agree to defend them, Adams argued on their behalf, and got six of them acquitted, with two soldiers who had fired directly into the crowd convicted only of manslaughter with dismissal from the Army.

That same month, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts General Legislature, beginning his political career. Adams attended the First and Second Continental Congresses as a representative from Massachusetts. Believing in independence, he nominated George Washington of Virginia for Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

Tired of repeating his arguments for independence, Adams wrote a pamphlet "Thoughts on Government" (1776), which articulated his thoughts on independence and, more influentially, on the thought that monarchs, the aristocracy, and the common people all had to be mixed together and represented, in order to bring their support to the government. This thought was considered very radial at the time. "Thoughts on Government" was extremely influential on political thinkers, and was referenced as an authority in virtually every state when each wrote their state constitution.

Adams would help write the Declaration of Independence, and would sign as a Massachusetts delegate. During the Revolution, he served as head of the Board of War and Ordnance, seeing that the Continental Army received the supplies it needed. In 1779, he wrote most of the Massachusetts Constitution, with help from his cousin, Sam Adams, and patriot James Bowdoin. During the Revolutionary War, Adams successfully negotiated treaties of recognition and friendship with France, Holland and Prussia, giving the United States its first foreign recognition as a nation.

In 1785, he was appointed as the first Ambassador from the United States to Great Britain since the Revolution. When the Constitution of the United States was adopted, Adams ran for President, coming in second behind General George Washington. In accordance with the US Constitution, that made Washington President and Adams Vice President.

As President of the Senate (the only duties that the Constitution gave the Vice President) he cast 29 tie-breaking votes, a record that still stands today. As the first Vice President, he set the standards for the sessions of the Congress, many of which are still enforced even today.

In 1796, Adams ran for President on the Federalist Party platform against Governor Thomas Pinckney (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican Party) and Senator Aaron Burr (also Democratic-Republican). In a narrow victory, Adams won the Presidency over the next candidate, Thomas Jefferson, thus, under the rules then in place, Jefferson become Adams' Vice President.

In the next four years, President Adams built up the Navy, fought an undeclared war with France, and signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts as an legal instrument against French actions in America (but was used by some politicians to silence their political opponents) and gave the first ever State of the Union address.

In the election of 1800, each candidate ran for the first time with a vice presidential running mate. In this election, Jefferson teamed with Aaron Burr to defeat John Adams and his running mate, Charles Pinckney.

Just before leaving the Presidency, Adams became the first US President to occupy the newly constructed White House, the official residence of the President. In his final days as President, Adams appointed his Secretary of State, John Marshall, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; Marshall would go on to establish much of the legal decisions that influence the Supreme Court even today, and he is considered one of the best Chief Justices the US ever had.

Following his defeat, Adams retired into private life, returning to his farm in Massachusetts. He and Jefferson were bitter by the infighting of politics and would not speak to each other again until 1812, when Adams finally reconciled with Jefferson. Becoming friends again, the two men corresponded on a number of political and philosophical discussions, giving future historians deep insight into political thought of the times and of the two men.

Sixteen months before his death, Adams' son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth President of the United States, the first son of a President to achieve this office.

On July 4, 1826, on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy. His last words were "Jefferson lives," considered a tribute of his deep affection for his friend and former rival. However, Thomas Jefferson had died a few hours earlier than his friend, John Adams, that same day.

Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson

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Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

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Famous People

Group:
Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower

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https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MKNQ-TSF

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3069

Reburial:
FindaGrave #6

John married First Lady Abigail Smith on 25 Oct 1764 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Rev. William Smith, Jr. and Elizabeth Quincy) was born on 23 Nov 1744 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 28 Oct 1818 in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was buried after 28 Oct 1818 in United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
• FamilySearch ID: M4BC-KCM
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 7683041

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Nabby Adams Smith was the eldest child and only surviving daughter of John and Abigail Adams and the sister of John Quincy Adams. She married William Stephens Smith in London on June 12, 1786 while her parents were in residence there but the marriage was not a happy one. Abandoned on numerous occasions while her husband went "seeking his fortune", Nabby showed herself to be a true child of her parents, strong-willed, uncomplaining and able to keep herself and her children together under one roof, earning the unstinting respect of John and Abigail and of John Quincy, who loved her dearly ... one of the few people he did love dearly.

In October of 1811, Nabby discovered a lump in her breast and a mastectomy was performed without any anesthesia. Her parents were holding her hands during the brutal surgery and, according to John, she never cried out once. After recuperating at the Adams homestead in Quincy, she returned to her dreary life in New York. But the cancer proved too much for even Nabby's resilient spirit and, in the summer of 1813, in agony, she returned to her parents in Quincy and died in The Old Homestead. The elderly John Adams grieved in a letter to his old friend Thomas Jefferson: "Your friend, my only Daughter, expired, Yesterday Morning .... in the 49th Year of her age, 46 of which She was the healthiest and firmest of Us all: Since which, She has been a monument to Suffering and to Patience." It has been said that neither John nor Abigail ever truly recovered from her death.

Cause of death: Breast cancer

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Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7683041

Family/Spouse: Col. William Stephens Smith. William (son of John Smith and Margaret Stephens) was born on 8 Nov 1755 in Suffolk County, New York; died on 10 Jun 1816 in Lebanon, Madison County, New York; was buried after 10 Jun 1816 in Sherburne West Hill Cemetery, Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Famous Historical Figure
• Group: Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
• Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War
• FamilySearch ID: KNCR-GGS
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 3119
• Occupation: 6th President of the United States
• Cenotaph: Aft 23 Feb 1848, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia County, District of Colombia
• Reburial: Aft 23 Feb 1848, United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Notes:

John Quincy Adams nickname was Old Man Eloquent.

John Quincy Adams served in the capacity of President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.  Was a member of the House of Representatives in 1830 after being defeated in the 1828 election for President.  On February 21, 1848, John Quincy
Adams, suffered a stroke at the age of 84 on the floor of the house and was carried to a nearby chamber where he died two days later.  Doctors considered it too dangerous to move him.

His Vice President was John C. Calhoun.
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From FindaGrave:

6th United States President, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Congressman. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he served as the 6th President of the United States from 1825 until 1829. He served as the 8th United States Secretary of State during the Administration of James Monroe (1817 until 1825). He represented the State of Massachusetts 11th Congressional District (1831 to 1833), 12th Congressional District (1833 until 1843) and 8th Congressional District (1843 until his death in 1848) in the United States House of Representatives. John Adams and John Quincy Adams are the first father and son to serve as US Presidents and were the only to do so until George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

The second child of John and Abigail Adams, he witnessed through the brilliance of his father the establishment of the United States first hand. A founding father of the United States, John Adams went on to become the Second President of the United States. During his teenage years, he acquired experience as a negotiator as he accompanied his father on overseas trips. He studied Law at Harvard College and became fluent in several languages.

He wed Louisa Catherine Johnson in 1797. She held the distinction as being the only First Lady (prior to Melania Trump who became First Lady in 2017) to be born outside the United States. Their union produced three sons who lived to adulthood.

When his father was elected president, John Quincy served as the Minister to Prussia from 1797 to 1801. In 1802, he served as State Senator of Massachusetts and was elected (as a Federalist) and served as US Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1803 until 1808. He was appointed Minister of Russia during the Administration of James Madison from 1809 until 1814. In 1814, Adams served as Chief Negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent and was a key figure in the negotiation process for which ended the War of 1812. From 1815 to 1817, he served as Minister to Great Britain. During his tenure as US Secretary of State, Adams achieved the purchase of Florida from Spain for which became known as The Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819. Additionally, he was a proponent of the "Monroe Doctrine" which warned European nations not to interfere in affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

The US Presidential Election of 1824 saw Adams pitted against war hero Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay. Without a decisive victor to the election, the House of Representatives, was then tasked with deciding the winner. Henry Clay decided to back Adams for which aided in John Quincy Adams becoming president.

During his tenure, he prioritized the strengthening of infrastructure for which included a network of canals, roadways and the establishment of a national university. He supported participation in the Panama Congress in 1826 and that same year, he appointed Robert Trimble to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.

Adams was defeated for reelection by Andrew Jackson in 1828. After he left the presidency, he served in the United States House of Representatives for seventeen years. During his tenure in Congress, Adams often found himself in the minority of causes. He supported the continuation of the Bank of the United States and was opposed to the annexation of Texas. He voted against the declaration of war with Mexico in 1846.

Adams suffered a massive stroke (he suffered a mild stroke in 1846) after casting a vote to oppose a proposal to decorate certain generals who served during the Mexican War. He died two days later and was buried in his family's tomb in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Bio by: C.S.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3119

Cenotaph:
FindaGrave ID #22633912.

Reburial:
Findagrave ID #7

John married First Lady Louisa Catherine Johnson on 26 Jul 1797 in London, Middlesex, England. Louisa was born on 12 Feb 1775 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 15 May 1852 in Washington, District of Columbia, District of Colombia; was buried after 15 May 1852 in United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
• FamilySearch ID: LLCM-V1Z
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 20772235

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

2nd son of the second President of the United States, John Adams, and his wife Abigail Smith Adams.

Charles' early life was adventuresome, as he traveled abroad with his father and older brother John Quincy, even returning on his own and becoming "lost" for a period of time. He was trained as lawyer, attending Harvard, and set up practice in New York City.

He married Sarah Smith, the sister of his brother in law, William Smith, who had married Abigail "Nabby" Adams.

He became involved in dubious business dealings, and many written articles question various aspects of his life, relationships, and dealings. As with others in the family, he relied upon alcohol to divert himself, eventually succumbing to its effects.

He and Sarah had two daughters, Susannah and Abigail.

Charles' father ahborred Charles' lifestyle and its affects, and near the end of Charles' life, wrote him off as unworthy of his attention, love and respect.

Charles died in despair at the young age of 30. Estranged from his family due to his father's opinions, he was not allowed to be buried in the family plot, as it was preferred that he simply be put to the past and forgotten. Another Find-A-Grave Memorial indicates burial at the family plot in the Hancock Cemetery in Quincy, MA, which is incorrect.

An account of his death at the time [ W. W. (Wesley Washington) Pasko. Old New York : a journal relating to the history and antiquities of New York City] indicates that he was buried on 2 Dec 1800, with full military honors, in the "Old Presbyterian Burial Ground". This is assumed to be the original location of the First Presbyterian Church at 5 Wall Street, NYC. The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1835, and remains were re-interred at other locations, many being moved to Green-Wood Cemetery. His present burial site is unknown, though we continue to search so that he may be properly remembered.

Bio by: Peter J. Talbot

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20772235

Family/Spouse: Sarah Smith. Sarah (daughter of John Smith and Margaret Stephens) was born on 6 Nov 1769 in New York; died on 3 Aug 1828 in Utica, Oneida County, New York; was buried after 3 Aug 1828 in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, Oneida County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Descendant of Mayflower Passenger
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Mayflower - John Alden & Priscilla Mullins
• FamilySearch ID: LLCM-V1D
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 40460791

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Thomas Boylston Adams was the third and youngest son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams. Thomas' father John was the 2nd President of the United States and his brother John Quincy was the 6th President of the United States

Adams lived with relatives in Haverhill, Massachusetts during his father's diplomatic missions in Europe, after Abigail Adams joined him in 1784. He graduated from Harvard University in 1790 and studied law at his family's behest, but brother John Quincy Adams did not believe he had the skills to practice law successfully.

Adams accompanied his brother John Quincy in The Netherlands and Prussia from 1794 to 1798, serving as his secretary. In 1805, Thomas Adams married Ann Harrod of Haverhill and settled in Quincy, which he represented in the Massachusetts legislature in 1805-06. In 1811, he was appointed chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit of Massachusetts.

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Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40460791

Thomas married Ann "Nancy" Harrod on 16 May 1805. Ann was born on 25 Apr 1774 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 3 Sep 1845 in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was buried after 3 Sep 1845 in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]