Born 16 Sep 1722 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Checkley) Adams — married 1749 in Boston, MA

Husband of Elizabeth (Wells) Adams — married 6 Dec 1764 in Boston, MA

Descendants

Died 2 Oct 1803 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Preceded by 3rd Governor John Hancock

Samuel Adams 4th Governor of Massachusetts 1793—1797

Succeeded by 5th Governor Increase Sumner

Samuel Adams Jr participated in the American Revolution. Join: 1776 Project Discuss: 1776

Biography

Samuel Adams Jr was a Founding Father in the American Revolution

Samuel Adams Jr is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-101570
Rank: Signer, Declaration of Independence

This profile is part of the Adams Name Study.

Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was 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 President John Adams.

In the fifteen years before the American Revolution, that is, 1760 to 1775, Samuel Adams was above all the other patriots of that era, foremost in encouraging his fellow men to open rebellion. The Tories of that day said that Samuel was "the first man to speak of Independence," which to British sympathizers meant treason. It was Samuel Adams who rallied the Bostonian s to proclaim their opposition to the Stamp Tax in 1755. It was Samuel Adams who got his fellow citizens to vote against the trade tax that Parliament imposed on sugar.

It was Samuel Adams who organized the Boston Tea Party. When the early Patriots banded themselves together and called themselves the Sons of Liberty, the British called this organization "Sam Adams Mohawks". The greatest personal drive for independence in America prior to the Battle of Bunker Hill was coaching skill and leadership of Samuel Adams, yet this man sought no credit for it all. Probably the greatest tribute made in regard to this man was made by the Tory Boston Governor Hutchinson when he said, "Samuel Adams is leader of the greatest adventure in democracy this world has ever seen."

Sources

• Samuel Adams by Prof. James K. Hosmer (1885)
• Hours at Home, A Popular Monthly (Charles Scribner & Company, 1867) Vol. 2, No. 5, Page 389-399
• Find A Grave: Memorial #9
• Granary Burying Ground: Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1918) Page 20: Adams, "Samuel, Signer of the Declaration of Independence Governor of this Commonwealth, b. ___, 1722, d. ___, 1803"
• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch [1] : accessed 10 April 2016), Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Checkley, 17 Aug 1749; FHL microfilm 0928191 IT 2.
• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch [2] : accessed 10 April 2016), Samuel Adams and Eliza. Wells, 06 Dec 1764; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0896885 IT 2.
• Porter, Joseph W. "An Account of Part of the Family of Abraham Perkins of Hampton, NH, who Lived in Plymouth Co., MA," published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Boston, MA: NEHGS. (Online database: American Ancestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018). Jan 1896, Vol. 50, page 35.

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