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Adams, Robert Train and Douglass Graem Adams. A Family Record of Dr. Samuel Adams, United Empire Loyalist of Vermont and Upper Canada: The First Five Generations Descending from William Adams of Ipswich (1594-1661) and the Descendants of Dr. Samuel Adams of Arlington, (1730-1810). R.T. Adams, 1995. Fryer, Mary Beacock.
A woodcut of Dr. Samuel Adams, the future British Loyalist and American Revolutionary War military leader of Adams' Rangers, who was publicly humiliated in 1774 by being tied to a chair and hung from the sign of the Catamount Tavern in Arlington, New Hampshire Grants, in present-day Vermont, for falling out of favor with his enemies, the Green ...
British Loyalist citizens in Arlington, united under the leadership of Dr. Samuel Adams, organized an independent military unit, Adams' Rangers, to support the British war effort in the region. In 1777, Adams' men saw action, fighting for British General John Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga in the Province of New York and were soundly defeated.
James Luther Adams (1901–1994), an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister, was the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century.
Sean McDonnell was first given the name John Winters Doe. He was found abandoned outside an Arlington Heights apartment complex on a cold day in 1983. Sean was just hours old when he was left ...
Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general who lived at [Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial[|Arlington House]] [18] George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army general during World War II [19] Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain, United States Navy, led the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze
Adams' birthplace in Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735, Old Style, Julian calendar), to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston.He had two younger brothers: Peter (1738–1823) and Elihu (1741–1775). [2]
Adams is the youngest of four brothers. His grandfather, Rev. Theodore F. Adams (1898–1980), [3] led the First Baptist Church of Richmond (1936–1968), and the Baptist World Alliance (1955-1960). He was born into the prominent Adams family and is the third cousin, seven times removed, of US President John Adams. [4]