Charles Adams
(1770-1800)
BIRTH
May 29, 1770
PLACE
Braintree, Massachusetts
DEATH
November 30, 1800
PLACE
New York City, New York
FAMILY
FATHER
John Adams
(1735-1826)
MOTHER
Abigail Smith Adams
(1744-1818)
SISTER
Nabby Adams Smith
(1765-1813)
BROTHER
John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848)
BROTHER
Thomas Boylston Adams
(1772-1832)
WIFE
Sarah Smith Adams
(1769-1828)
CHILDREN
Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson
(1798-1836)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Charley
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Charles Adams (1770–1800) was John and Abigail Adams’s second son, who traveled to Europe during the Revolution and studied at Harvard. He practiced law in New York and married Sarah Smith in 1795; they had two daughters. Financial losses and alcohol problems damaged his career and relations with his family. He died at thirty while his father was president. Family letters record affection and distress, distinct from his brother John Quincy’s political career.
EARLY LIFE
Charles Adams was born on May 29, 1770 in Braintree, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
John Quincy Adams Birthplace
133 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169
John Quincy Adams’s original 1767 saltbox birthplace survives beside the John Adams Birthplace in Quincy. The National Park Service protects both furnished houses, their architectural fabric, grounds, and visitor facilities as part of Adams National Historical Park, generally presenting them through guided tours.
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Surviving Structures, Gift Shop, Tours, Programs, Exhibits
The available biographical record identifies Charles Adams with work or public activity as a lawyer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Charles Adams died on Nov 30, 1800 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Charles Adams was John and Abigail Adams’s second son, who traveled to Europe during the Revolution and studied at Harvard. Financial losses and alcohol problems damaged his career and relations with his family. Family letters record affection and distress, distinct from his brother John Quincy’s political career. He practiced law in New York and married Sarah Smith in 1795; they had two daughters. Charles Adams practiced law in New York and married Sarah Smith in 1795; they had two daughters. Charles Adams died on Nov 30, 1800 in New York City, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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John Adams Peacefield
1250 Hancock St, Quincy, MA 02169
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John Quincy Adams Birthplace
133 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Charles Adams (1770–1800), John and Abigail Adams’s son, distinct from Charles Francis Adams. These are family biographies and correspondence. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family — Paul C. Nagel. [Family biography] Find on Amazon
2. The Adams Family — James Truslow Adams. [Family biography] Find on Amazon
3. Abigail Adams: A Life — Woody Holton. [Related biography of his mother] Find on Amazon
4. John Adams — David McCullough. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
5. Adams Family Correspondence — L. H. Butterfield and others (editors). [Primary family correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
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