John Adams I (1691 - 1761)
Deacon
John
Adams
I
Born in Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph G Adams Jr.
and Hannah (Bass) Adams
Brother of
Mary Adams [half], Abigail (Adams) Chapin [half], Joseph Adams III, Sarah Adams, Samuel Adams, Josiah Adams I, Hannah (Adams) Owen, Ruth (Adams) Webb, Bethiah (Adams) Hunt, Ebenezer Adams and Caleb Adams [half]
Husband of
Susannah (Boylston) Adams
— married
31 Oct 1734 in Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Died in Braintree, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Profile last modified 6 Apr 2020
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John Adams Sr. (1691-1761) was the father of John Adams Jr., second president of the United States, and grandfather of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president.
Biography
This profile is part of the Adams Name Study.
John Adams Sr. (February 8, 1691[1] – May 25, 1761) He was the son of Joseph Adams and Hannah Bass. Adams married well, to Susanna Boylston, from a prominent family of scientists and medical doctors, on November 23, 1734.
John and Susanna had three children:
- John Adams – Patriot, President, and Founding Father of the United States of America.
- Peter Boylston Adams – A farmer and militia captain of Braintree, Massachusetts.
- Elihu Adams – A company commander in the militia who died in the early days of the American Revolution.
Adams died in 1761, at the age of 70, and his widow Susanna later married John Hall
Please see the wonderful biography at Wikipedia
Sources
- ↑ Records of Town of Braintree 1640 to 1793 (Edited by Samuel A. Bates)(Randolph, Mass.: Daniel H. Huxford, Publisher. 1886) (Free e-book Also available at Google Books) p. 669
- Doug Wead, The raising of a president: the mothers and fathers of our nation's leaders, pp. 1, 6-7, 40-5-6 (Simon and Schuster, 2005). ISBN 978-0-7434-9726-8. Found online at Google Books. Accessed February 28, 2011.
- Zachary Kent, John Adams: Creating a Nation: America's founding fathers, p. 13 (Enslow Publishers, 2004) ISBN 978-0-7660-2183-9. Found online at Google books. Accessed February 28, 2011.
- Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 12740: Will
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DNA Connections
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Rejected matches › John Adams › John Adams › John Edward Adams › John Adams (bef.1775-) › John Adams (abt.1755-) › John Adams (abt.1730-) › John Adams (abt.1730-aft.1795) › John Hobbs Adams Sr. (1727-1804) › John Adams (1658-1751) › John Adams (1771-1839) › John Adams (abt.1780-) › John Adams (1735-1826) › John Adams (abt.1850-) › John Adams (abt.1650-) › John B. Adams › John B. Adams › John C Adams (1795-) › John Hyrum Adams (1879-1880) › John Thomas Adams (aft.1900-) › John Adams Carson
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Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Photo: Has a photo of his gravestone on gravesite