Elihu Adams
BIRTH
1741
Braintree, Massachusetts
DEATH
Braintree, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
John Adams Sr.
(1691-1761)
MOTHER:
Susanna Boylston Adams
(1708-1797)
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Adams, Elihu
(1741-1775)
Elihu Adams, brother of John Adams, was a company commander in the militia during the American Revolution who died from dysentery.
BIRTHPLACE:
MUSEUM
John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park
127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169
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BROTHER
John Adams
(1735-1826)
BROTHER
Peter Boylston Adams
(1738-1823)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Adams Birthplace - Adams National Historical Park | 127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Braintree, Massachusetts
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.
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.