Elihu Adams
(1741-1775)
BIRTH
1741
PLACE
Braintree, Massachusetts
DEATH
1775
PLACE
Braintree, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER
John Adams Sr.
(1691-1761)
MOTHER
Susanna Boylston Adams
(1708-1797)
BROTHER
John Adams
(1735-1826)
BROTHER
Peter Boylston Adams
(1738-1823)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elihu Adams (1741–1775) was John Adams’s youngest brother and a Massachusetts farmer and militia captain. He settled about 1762 on inherited land in Braintree’s South Parish and married Thankful White in 1765. During the siege of Boston he commanded a company at Cambridge and contracted dysentery. His death left Thankful with young children and an estate burdened by debts. Her surviving 1777 petition sought permission to sell land to meet those obligations.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elihu Adams’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Adams Birthplace
127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169
Preservation information for John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park is incomplete. Surviving features, restoration history, and current stewardship need documentation.
MUSEUM
Surviving Structures, Exhibits, Tours
The available biographical record identifies Elihu Adams with work or public activity as a farmer. 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elihu Adams was John Adams’s youngest brother and a Massachusetts farmer and militia captain. During the siege of Boston he commanded a company at Cambridge and contracted dysentery. Elihu Adams died in 1775, in Braintree, Massachusetts. 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.
MUSEUM
John Adams Birthplace
127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Elihu Adams (1741–1775), John Adams’s brother. These are family biographies, correspondence and related campaign history. 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. John Adams — David McCullough. [Related biography of his brother] Find on Amazon
4. Adams Family Correspondence — L. H. Butterfield and others (editors). [Primary family correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
5. History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill — Richard Frothingham. [Related campaign and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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