Defunct Political Parties in Massachusetts: Massachusetts Federalists, Massachusetts Whigs, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Paul Revere

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 237. Not illustrated. Chapters: Massachusetts Federalists, Massachusetts Whigs, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Paul Revere, John Adams, John P. Bigelow, Lemuel Shaw, Joseph Dennie, Edward Everett, Timothy Pickering, Joseph T. Buckingham, Benjamin Seaver, Benjamin Pickman, Jr., Samuel Allyne Otis, Harrison Gray Otis, John Davis, Fisher Ames, Caleb Strong, Jonathan Mason, Francis Baylies, Francis Dana, Prentiss Mellen, William Tudor, Benjamin Goodhue, Stephen C. Phillips, William Appleton, Alvah Crocker, Bailey Bartlett, Elijah H. Mills, George Thatcher, Zeno Scudder, William B. Calhoun, James Lloyd, Eli P. Ashmun, Abijah Bigelow, William Stedman, Nathan Dane, George Cabot, Theophilus Parsons, Nathaniel Ruggles, J. Wiley Edmands, Barker Burnell, Artemas Hale, Asahel Stearns, Stephen Longfellow, William Phillips, Jr., Lewis Bigelow, Israel Thorndike, Benjamin Thompson, Stephen Higginson, Thomas Dwight, Timothy Bigelow, William Prescott, Jr., Samuel Wilde. Excerpt: John Adams - John Adams, Jr., the eldest of three sons, was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735 Old Style, Julian calendar), in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts (then called the north precinct of Braintree, Massachusetts), to John Adams, Sr., and Susanna Boylston Adams. The location of Adams's birth is now part of Adams National Historical Park. His father, also named John (16911761), was a fifth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1638. He is descended from a Welsh male line called Ap Adam. His father was a farmer, a Congregationalist (that is, Puritan) deacon, a lieutenant in the militia and a selectman, or town councilman, who supervised schools and roads. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline. Adams was born to a modest family, but he...