Samuel Adams Jr. (1722 - 1803)
Samuel
Adams
Jr.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Adams
and Mary (Fifield) Adams
Brother of
Aaron Adams, Richard Adams, Mary Adams, Hannah Adams, John Adams, John Adams, Joseph Adams, Thomas Adams, Sarah Adams, Abigail Adams and Mehitable Adams
Husband of
Elizabeth (Checkley) Adams
— married
in Boston, MA
Husband of
Elizabeth (Wells) Adams
— married
in Boston, MA
Descendants
Father of
Samuel Adams,
Samuel Adams,
Joseph Adams,
Mary Adams,
Hannah (Adams) Wilcox and
Infant Adams
Died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Categories: Notables | American Founding Fathers | Massachusetts Governors | Sons of Liberty, American Revolution | Signers of the United States Declaration of Independence | Signers of the Articles of Confederation | Signers of the Continental Association | Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts | Massachusetts, Adams Name Study | 18th Century, Adams Name Study | NSSAR Patriot Ancestors.
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Samuel Adams Jr. was a Founding Father in the American Revolution
This profile is part of the Adams Name Study.
| Preceded by 3rd Governor John Hancock |
Samuel Adams 4th Governor of Massachusetts  |
Succeeded by 5th Governor Increase Sumner |
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- 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.
- Hours at Home, A Popular Monthly (Charles Scribner & Company, 1867) Vol. 2, No. 5, Page 389-399
- 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; citing reference ; 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.
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