1st Lt.
Thomas
Boylston
Adams
Jr.
Born about in Braintree, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Boylston Adams
and Ann (Harrod) Adams
Brother of
Abigail Smith (Adams) Angier, Elizabeth Coombs Adams, John Quincy Adams, Frances Foster Adams, Isaac Hull Adams, John Quincy Adams and Joseph Harrod Adams
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 28
in Fort Dade, Florida Territory, United States
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Biography
Thomas Boylston Adams (1809-1837) was born in 1809. He is the son of Thomas Boylston- Adams and Ann Herrod and the grandson of John Adams, second U.S. President.
He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died at his post in Fort Dade, Florida
14 December. Lt. Thomas Boylston Adams Jr., dies of a fever at Fort Dade, Florida, during the Second Seminole War.
Thomas was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, July 1, 1824 to July 1, 1828; 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Artillery, July 1, 1828; 1st lieutenant, 2nd Artillery, Dec.1, 1833. He served at Fortress Monroe, in South Carolina, and in Florida during the Seminoles War.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Treat, John Harvey. The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt and Treat. (Salem: Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing & Printing Company. 1893) p. 332
- Find A Grave: Memorial #40460329
- William Arba Ellis, ed., Norwich University, 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor (Montpelier, Vermont: The Capital City Press, 1911), 2:47.
See Also:
- From John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr., 20 September 1822 (a letter from a grandfather to his grandson) note: this is an early access link which will disappear
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