Mary Fifield Adams
(1694-1748)
BIRTH
1694
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
NAME
Mary Fifield
DEATH
1748
PLACE
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Samuel Adams Sr.
(1689-1748)
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Mary Fifield Adams (1694–1748) was Samuel Adams Sr.’s wife and the mother of Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. She came from a Boston seafaring family and raised children at their Purchase Street home. The household worshiped at the South Meeting House, where her husband was a deacon. She influenced Samuel’s early career, urging him toward a merchant’s counting house rather than law. Park Service research records her advice; her husband’s brewing and politics were separate.
EARLY LIFE
Mary Fifield Adams was born 1694. The external genealogical record identifies Mary Thurston Fifield as a parent. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Fifield Adams is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Mary Fifield Adams died 1748. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
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DEATH
Mary Fifield Adams died in 1748, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Mary Fifield Adams was Samuel Adams Sr.’s wife and the mother of Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. She came from a Boston seafaring family and raised children at their Purchase Street home. The household worshiped at the South Meeting House, where her husband was a deacon. She influenced Samuel’s early career, urging him toward a merchant’s counting house rather than law. Park Service research records her advice; her husband’s brewing and politics were separate. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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