John Adams was born in Braintree,   Massachusetts on the nineteenth of October 1935.  he was grandson of Henry Adams who immigrated from England back in 1640.  John Adams father was a deacon at their Church, he also was a  select man and he was a farmer that had limited means to which had been added the business of a shoemaker.  John Adams couldn't give his oldest son education John who graduated at Harvard in 1757.  He studied law at Worcester with the instructions of a lawyer.  In 1658 he began to practice in sulfur Country where Boston was a shire town.   in 1764 he married Abigail Smith.   Abigail was a daughter of  the minister .  John Adams became President in 1797 to 1801.  He was on Boston's town council soon after they proceeded in the Revolutionary War and was chosen to be one of the five delegates in 1774.    He ended up in Philadelphia where he became a member of the congress.  John Adams died in 1825 at the age of 90 years old.  

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