Samuel Adams
BIRTH
Sep 27, 1722
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
October 2, 1803
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1793-1797
FAMILY
FATHER:
Samuel Adams Sr.
(1689-1748)
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Adams, Samuel
(1722-1803)
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independenceand other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.
BIRTHPLACE:
MARKER
Samuel Adams House Site Marker
99-1 Winter Pl, Boston, MA 02108
HOMES:
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Samuel Adams House Site Marker
99-1 Winter Pl, Boston, MA 02108
GRAVE:
MARKER
Grave of Samuel Adams
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
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WIFE
Elizabeth Checkley Adams
(1725-1757)
WIFE
Elizabeth Wells Adams
(1735-1808)
Hannah Wells
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Independence National Historical Park | 520 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM | ||
Old State House | 206 Washington St, Boston, MA 02109 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Tea Party Museum | 306 Congress St, Boston, MA 02210 | MUSEUM | ||
Minute Man National Historical Park | 210 N Great Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773 | MUSEUM | ||
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Massacre Site | Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02102, USA | MARKER | ||
Lexington Battle Green | 1625 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02421 | MARKER | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Buckman Tavern | 1 Bedford St, Lexington, MA 02420 | MUSEUM | ||
City Tavern | 166 S 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM | ||
Hancock Clarke House | 36 Hancock St, Lexington, MA 02420 | MUSEUM | ||
Faneuil Hall | 1 Faneuil Hall Market Pl, Boston, MA 02109 | MUSEUM | ||
Carpenters Hall | 320 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM | ||
Samuel Adams House Site Marker | 99-1 Winter Pl, Boston, MA 02108 | MARKER | ||
Grave of Samuel Adams | Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA | MARKER | ||
Granary Burying Ground | Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA | MARKER | ||
Salem Town House Marker | Essex St &, Washington St, Salem, MA 01970 | MARKER | ||
Green Dragon Tavern Marker | 41 Union St, Boston, MA 02108 | MARKER |
DIED:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oct 2, 1803
Adams was born in Boston, brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. He was an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representativesand the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s, and he became a part of a movement opposed to the British Parliament's efforts to tax the British American colonies without their consent.
His 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system in 1772 to help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the British Constitution at the expense of the colonies, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies.
Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773 Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution. Adams was actively involved with colonial newspapers publishing accounts of colonial sentiment over British colonial rule, which were fundamental in uniting the colonies.
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774, at which time Adams attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Continental Association in 1774 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and he helped draft the Articles of Confederation and the Massachusetts Constitution. Adams returned to Massachusetts after the American Revolution, where he served in the state senate and was eventually elected governor.