Elizabeth Wells Adams
(1735-1808)
BIRTH
1735
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
NAME
Elizabeth Wells
DEATH
1808
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Betsy
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Wells Adams was the second wife of Boston Samuel Adams, whom she married in 1764. His letters to “Betsy” document their separation while he served in Congress. During the siege of Boston she stayed in Dedham and planned a move to Little Cambridge; their return home remained uncertain. They had no children together. She survived Samuel, who died in 1803, and died in Boston in 1808. Her life is preserved chiefly in family correspondence.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Wells 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Wells Adams is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Wells Adams died in 1808, in Boston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Wells Adams was the second wife of Boston Samuel Adams, whom she married in 1764. His letters to “Betsy” document their separation while he served in Congress. During the siege of Boston she stayed in Dedham and planned a move to Little Cambridge; their return home remained uncertain. They had no children together. She survived Samuel, who died in 1803, and died in Boston in 1808. Her life is preserved chiefly in family correspondence. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Granary Burying Ground
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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