Samuel Adams Sr.
(1689-1748)
BIRTH
1689
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
NAME
Samuel Adams
DEATH
1748
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
SISTER
Hannah Wells
(1756–1821)
WIFE
Mary Fifield Adams
(1694-1748)
CHILDREN
Samuel Adams
(1722-1803)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
CONGREGATIONALIST
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Samuel Adams Sr. (1689–1748) was a Boston brewer, Congregational deacon and local politician, remembered as the father of the Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. He served as selectman, justice of the peace and representative in the General Court. In 1740 he helped organize a land bank issuing paper money to ease a shortage of coin. Parliament’s suppression of the bank left investors liable for its debts, burdening the family and shaping his son’s distrust of Britain.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Samuel Adams Sr.’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.
Samuel Adams House Site Marker
99-1 Winter Pl, Boston, MA 02108
A June 2021 photo records the green Samuel Adams House Site plaque mounted on a building wall. It commemorates a former residence on Winter Street; the plaque is not surviving house fabric. Its present condition, sponsor/caretaker and placement need confirmation, together with any authentic foundations or other remains beneath the later property.
MARKER
The available biographical record identifies Samuel Adams Sr. with work or public activity as a clergyperson. 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
Samuel Adams Sr. was a Boston brewer, Congregational deacon and local politician, remembered as the father of the Revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. In 1740 he helped organize a land bank issuing paper money to ease a shortage of coin. Parliament’s suppression of the bank left investors liable for its debts, burdening the family and shaping his son’s distrust of Britain. Samuel Adams Sr. died in 1748, in Boston, 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.
Granary Burying Ground
Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, 02133, USA
GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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