Person:John Adams (387)

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John Adams Sr. (February 8, 1691 – May 25, 1761), also known as Deacon John, was a British-North American colonial farmer and minister. He was the father of the second U.S. president, John Adams Jr.,^[1] and grandfather of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. He was the son of Joseph Adams Jr. (1654–1737), the grandson of Joseph Adams Sr. (1626–1694), and the great-grandson of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1638. He was also descended from John and Priscilla Alden.^[2] Adams worked as a farmer and cobbler (also called a cord-wainer or shoemaker) for most of his life.^[1]

Adams' descendants include many prominent persons in American history, and his home is a National Park, the Adams National Historical Park. Not only was he the father and grandfather of presidents; he also was a first cousin, once removed, of Samuel Adams.

1. ↑ Bates, Samuel. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. (Randolph, Massachusetts : D.H. Huxford, 1886)
   p. 669.

   John Adams the son of Joseph Adams and Hannah his wife was born the 7th of Februrary, 1691/90.

2. ↑ Find A Grave: Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, MA, in Find A Grave
   Deacon John Adams, Sr.

   Sacred to the Memory of
   JOHN ADAMS
   who died May 25, A.D. 1761,
   aged 70 years. And of Susanna, his Consort, Born
   Boylston, who Died April 17,
   A.D. 1797, aged 88.