The Hendee Family Tree - John Adams Sr.

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names	Name
Name at Birth	John Adams
Stage/Pen Name	Deacon John Adams

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Joseph Adams II	12/24/1654	Hannah Bass	6/22/1667

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Susannah Boylston	3/5/1708	President John Adams Peter Boylston Adams Captain Elihu Adams Thomas B. Adams Joseph William Adams Jerusha Adams

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	2/8/1691	Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Christening	3/15/1691	Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Place of Residence	1720	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States	in the house now standing on Franklin St. known as the Birthplace of President John Adams
Marriage	11/23/1734	Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Occupation			a British colonial farmer and minister
Death	5/25/1761	Quincy, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Burial	May 1761	Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Notes


Family Memorial. Father of 2nd US President John Adams, Grandfather of 6th US President John Quincy Adams. A descendant of the original Massachusetts Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden, he was a farmer and cobbler during his life. His patrilineal ancestor was Henry Adams who came from England around 1638 and settled in Braintree (now Quincy) of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1720 he purchased a farm in present-day Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1734 he married Susanna Boylston who came from a prominent and wealthy family of scientists and doctors in Brookline, Massachusetts and they raised three sons, John, Peter, and Elihu, who were all homeschooled. He served as a deacon in the Congregational Church, a lieutenant in the Massachusetts colonial militia, a tax collector, and a selectman of the Town of Braintree. He died at the age of 70. His home is now the Adams National Historical Park. -- “The testator had a good education, though not at college, and was a very capable and useful man. In his early life he was an officer of the militia, afterwards a deacon of the church, and a selectman of the town; almost all the business of the town being managed by him in that department for twenty years together; a man of strict piety, and great integrity; much esteemed and beloved wherever he was known, which was not far, his sphere of life being not extensive.” (Author, 2nd US President John Adams, 1761)

Family Memorial. Father of 2nd US President John Adams, Grandfather of 6th US President John Quincy Adams. A descendant of the original Massachusetts Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden, he was a farmer and cobbler during his life. His patrilineal ancestor was Henry Adams who came from England around 1638 and settled in Braintree (now Quincy) of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1720 he purchased a farm in present-day Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1734 he married Susanna Boylston who came from a prominent and wealthy family of scientists and doctors in Brookline, Massachusetts and they raised three sons, John, Peter, and Elihu, who were all homeschooled. He served as a deacon in the Congregational Church, a lieutenant in the Massachusetts colonial militia, a tax collector, and a selectman of the Town of Braintree. He died at the age of 70. His home is now the Adams National Historical Park.
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“The testator had a good education, though not at college, and was a very capable and useful man. In his early life he was an officer of the militia, afterwards a deacon of the church, and a selectman of the town; almost all the business of the town being managed by him in that department for twenty years together; a man of strict piety, and great integrity; much esteemed and beloved wherever he was known, which was not far, his sphere of life being not extensive.” (Author, 2nd US President John Adams, 1761)