John Adams one of seven founding fathers helped not only develop, but build what is now the United States of America. They all had a big part in making America, but John Adams might have had the biggest role. He had an easy life growing up, and was born into a farming family that had wealth, and had a name for themselves in their town. It might have been easy growing up but tougher task awaited him in the future and it wasn't going to be easy. I will be talking about John Adams life from being a 20-year-old Harvard graduate to being the President of the United States of America and probably have one of the French deaths that a president could ever have.
He was born on October 30th in 1735 in Braintree. Massachusetts. His father was John Adams sr he was a farmer but also a deacon and councilman of the town and was descendant of Henry Adams a puritan that came to America in 1638 to the Bay Colony in Massachusetts. His mother was Susanna Boylston Adams she came from the Boylstons a famous family that lived in Massachusetts. John Adams was a very smart boy at the age of
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Together they went on to have 5 kids in a span of 12 years. Abigal in 1765 then John Quincy in 1767 which he went on to become the 6th president of the united states, Sussan in 1768,charles in 1770, Thomas Boylston in 1772 and Elizabeth in 1777. After he was done with his presidency he went to live in Quincy on a farm with Abigail where he wrote back in fourth with Jefferson a lot. When I first learned about John Adams this was one of the most amazing facts I have ever learned in history. He died on July 4, 1826, which was the same day Thomas Jefferson died. He was in one room and Jefferson in the other and they were trying to see who would die first. They didn't really ever find out whole died first. Even more amazing about that day they died it was the 50th anniversary of the declaration of