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Samuel Adams
Founding Father of the United States (1722–1803)
For other uses, see Samuel Adams (disambiguation).
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In this c. 1772 portrait, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.[1] | |
| In office October 8, 1794 – June 2, 1797 Acting: October 8, 1793 – October 8, 1794 | |
| Lieutenant | Moses Gill |
| Preceded by | John Hancock |
| Succeeded by | Increase Sumner |
| In office 1789–1794 Acting Governor October 8, 1793 – 1794 | |
| Governor | John Hancock |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Lincoln |
| Succeeded by | Moses Gill |
| In office 1787–1788 1782–1785 | |
| In office 1774–1777 | |
| In office 1779–1781 | |
| In office 1766–1774 | |
| Born | (1722-09-27)September 27, 1722 Boston, Massachusetts Bay |
| Died | October 2, 1803(1803-10-02) (aged 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Granary Burying Ground, Boston |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican (1790s) |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Checkley (m. ; died )&
Early Life and EducationSamuel Adams lived his early life in his family house on Purchase Street, facing the Boston Harbor. Boston was a very different city then. Fifteen thousand people lived on a peninsula that became an island when the isthmus called Boston Neck was covered with water at high tide. Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 27, 1722. Son of Samuel Adams Sr.and Mary Fifield. As a child he enjoyed playing with the neighborhood kids in the narrow cobblestone streets. He had 11 siblings of which only 2 lived past their third birthday. His father, Samuel Adams Sr. was a deacon of the Congregational Church, a businessman and a politician. Sam was born in a prominent and wealthy family that had high expectations of him. Both parents were strict puritans; his mother was a very religious woman who supported the narrow Calvinist faith movement. As a result his family’s religious beliefs played an important role in their son’s education. His parents wanted him to become a minister of the church but he was not very interested in pursuing that path, he was
Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical RevolutionaryFootnotes:[1] John Adams, Diary of John Adams, December 23,1765. [2] William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1865) 410. [3] Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, Wives of the Signers: the Women Behind the Declaration of Independence (Wallbuilder Press, 1997). [4] Samuel Adams, To the Representatives of Boston, May 24, 1764. The Writings of Samuel Adams Vol I 1764-1769, collected and edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing (G.P. Putnum, 1904) 5. [5] John Winthrop, John A Model of Christian Charity, 1630. [6]Boston Gazette, December 5, 1768. [7] Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford History of the American People (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 192. [8]Boston Evening Post, April 10, 1769. [9]Boston Gazette, January 8, 1770. [10] Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, November 16,1769. [11] Thomas Hutchinson to William Dalrymple, March 6, 1770. [12] Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, September 27,1771. [13]Boston Gazette, November 25, 1771. [14]Boston Gazette, Copyright ©damtree.pages.dev 2025 |