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• FamilySearch ID: LBDB-T4K

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Susannah married Benjamin White on 21 Jan 1682/83 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. Benjamin was born on 5 Jan 1646/47 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jan 1723/24 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LT9W-QHQ

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Ann married Peter Boylston about 1704. Peter was born about 1673 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 10 Sep 1743 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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From FindaGrave:

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

Group:
Passenger or Descendant of the Mayflower

Group:
Famous People

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Descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin of the Mayflower

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Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.

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Reburial:
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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]