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Susanna Boylston Adams

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(1708-1797)

BIRTH

March 5, 1708

PLACE

Brookline, Massachusetts

NAME

Susanna Boylston

DEATH

April 21, 1797

PLACE

Quincy, Massachusetts

FAMILY

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FATHER

Peter Boylston

(1673-1743)

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BROTHER

John Adams Sr.

(1691-1761)

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BROTHER

John Adams

(1735-1826)

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SISTER

Abigail Adams

(1744-1818)

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SISTER

Nabby Adams Smith

(1765-1813)

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BROTHER

John Quincy Adams

(1767-1848)

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SISTER

Susanna Adams

(1768-1770)

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BROTHER

Charles Adams

(1770-1800)

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BROTHER

Thomas Boylston Adams

(1772-1832)

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SISTER

Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson

(1798-1836)

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HUSBAND

John Hall

(1698-1780)

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CHILDREN

John Adams

(1735-1826)

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CHILDREN

Peter Boylston Adams

(1738-1823)

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CHILDREN

Elihu Adams

(1741-1775)

HOMES

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

NOT YET RESEARCHED

NOT YET RESEARCHED

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Susanna Boylston Adams Hall (1708–1797) was the mother of President John Adams and grandmother of John Quincy Adams. From Brookline, Massachusetts, she married Deacon John Adams in 1734 and raised three sons in Braintree. Widowed in 1761, she later married John Hall and again outlived her husband. She lived to see her eldest son become president in 1797. Family recollections and her obituary document her long life; genealogies differ on her death and remarriage dates.

EARLY LIFE

Susanna Boylston Adams was born on Mar 5, 1708 in Brookline, Massachusetts. 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 Susanna Boylston 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. Susanna Boylston Adams died on Apr 21, 1797 in Quincy, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

CAREER

DEATH

Susanna Boylston Adams Hall died in Quincy, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1797, aged eighty-nine. She had lived long enough to see her eldest son John inaugurated as president only weeks earlier. Abigail Adams remained in Massachusetts during the inauguration partly because of her elderly mother-in-law's condition, placing the death within a period when family care was an immediate concern. The consulted biography does not identify a particular fatal disease or provide a continuous account of symptoms and treatment. Her son Elihu's death from dysentery during the Revolutionary era was a separate event, not her own diagnosis. Family recollections and her obituary preserve the broad outline of a long life and the timing of its close, while the private medical details remain uncertain. No specific cause has been inferred solely from her age, and no unverified final statement has been added.

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MUSEUM

John Adams Birthplace

127 Franklin St, Quincy, MA 02169

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POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES

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