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The Adams family "lived plainly." [24] Together they raised a family of three sons, of which John Adams was the oldest; [34] their other sons were Peter and Elihu. [35] Peter Boylston Adams was a farmer and militia captain of Braintree, Massachusetts.
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, [a] to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston. He had two younger brothers, Peter and Elihu. [4] Adams was born on the family farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. [5] [b] His mother was from a leading medical family of present-day Brookline, Massachusetts.
Adams' birthplace in Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735, Old Style, Julian calendar), to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston.He had two younger brothers: Peter (1738–1823) and Elihu (1741–1775). [2]
[9] Together, John and Susanna were parents of the following children: John Adams (1735–1826), the 2nd president of the United States. Peter Boylston Adams (1738–1823), a farmer, militia captain of Braintree, Massachusetts. Elihu Adams (1741–1775), a company commander in the militia during the American Revolution who died from dysentery.
John F. Kennedy and Donald J. Trump are the only known presidents who did not have ancestors who arrived during the colonial period. Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry.
Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22, [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
His son John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, was born in 1767, also in Braintree. John F. Kennedy , the 35th president, was born in Brookline in 1917, and seven years later Bush was born.
In 1803 John sold both houses to his son, who lived in the house of his birth, and rented this one out. The house was occupied from 1810 to 1818 by John Quincy Adams' son, Thomas Boylston Adams. [3] Both houses remained in Adams family ownership, and were rented out until 1885, when most of the surrounding farmland was sold off.