john adams

john adams

John Adams


John Adams was born October 30, 1735 to deacon john Adams and Susanna Boylston Adams. They lived in Braintree Massachusetts, about 12 miles away from Boston. At the age of 6 he was in dame school and then graduated to Latin school for 6-8 years until he was ready to go to college. He often sneaked away from school to fish, hike, hunt, and other things that children of New England did at the time for fun. He was assigned a tutor and was put in private school until he was ready to take the Harvard entrance exam just one and a half years after at age 15.
In 1759 Adams met the smith sisters, and young 14-year-old Abigail smith was the only one he thought was interesting. Two years later they began courting and exchanging letters despite their parents disapproval. On October 20, 1764 Adams (29) and Abigail (19) were married by Abigail’s father. They moved into a house John inherited next to the one john was born in. on July 14 1765 they had their first child, a girl, who they named Abigail.
When the stamp act passed in 1766 it put john out of business because it required that all legal documents have a stamp so the court systems closed down. During this time the Adams family struggled and four years later their 14-month-old daughter died. 1774 the colonies held a meeting called continental congress and Massachusetts sent john and Samuel Adams to represent the state. In April 1775 the British marched on concord and Lexington. One month after, john Adams suggested the congress should put together a continental army led by George Washington. Adams also recommended that congress should start a navy. In 1776 congress appointed Adams to a committee on independence that was supposed to draft a declaration for congress approval.
During the war congress sent Adams over to France as a commissioner to represent the United States. The journey from Boston to Bordeaux France took two months and when he finally arrived there he was amazed by the living style...