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Peacefield, also called Peace field or Old House, is a historic home formerly owned by the Adams family of Quincy, Massachusetts. It was the home of United States Founding Father and U.S. president John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams, and of U.S. president John Quincy Adams and his First Lady, Louisa Adams.
This house is a National Historic Landmark, the birthplace of John Adams. In 1720 it was purchased by Deacon John Adams, Sr., the father of the future second president. The younger Adams lived here until 1764, when he married Abigail Smith. It is a few feet from the John Quincy Adams Birthplace home, where John and Abigail Adams moved.
The Adams and Russell families were closely connected to Revolutionary figures in Menotomy and Lexington. Joanna Munroe, wife of first settler John Adams (later known as the Centenarian), was the sister of Ebenezer Munroe, a Minuteman who may have fired the first shot on the British on Lexington green, April 19, 1775, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
The John Adams Birthplace is a historic house at 133 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the saltbox home in which Founding Father and second president of the United States , John Adams , was born in 1735.
The elder Adams' later mansion, called Peacefield, is a few miles away, as are the graves of both presidents and their wives in the United First Parish Church. The Abigail Adams Cairn, atop a nearby hill from which Abigail and the 7-year old John Quincy Adams watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown, is also of interest ...
Adams's birthplace in present-day Quincy, 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.
John Adams Birthplace, owned by John Adams Sr. from 1720 until his death. In 1720, Adams purchased a farm in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts (then called the "north precinct" of Braintree, Massachusetts). [9] [10] The location of his farm, and where his children were born, is now part of Adams National Historical Park. [6]
John Quincy Adams Birthplace: Quincy: 1717 John Quincy Adams Birthplace dates to 1717 via dendrochronology, and was purchased by the Adams family in 1744. [39] This two-room plan building with a central chimney was bequeathed to John Quincy Adams in 1761. [39] An additional lean-to was added sometime in 1764 along with the door trim and ...