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In his will, John Quincy Adams requested that the library be built out of stone so that it would be fireproof. The Library holds John Adams' copy of George Washington's Farewell Address as well as the Mendi Bible, a Bible presented to John Quincy Adams in 1841 by the freed Mendi captives who had mutinied on the schooner La Amistad and whom ...
The Adams Papers Editorial Project is an ongoing project by historians and documentary editors at Massachusetts Historical Society to organize, transcribe, and publish a wide range of manuscripts, diaries, letterbooks and politically and culturally important letters authored by and received by the family of Founding Father John Adams, his wife Abigail Adams and their family, including John ...
In 1746, the fort was the site of the Siege of Fort Massachusetts, a battle in King George's War between the 21 militiamen garrisoning the fort and almost a thousand French soldiers and their Indian allies that resulted in the burning of the fort and the capture of the garrison and their families.
The library contains a large variety of books belonging to various members of the family, the largest portion belonging to John Quincy Adams. Notable books in the library include the Mendi Bible, a gift to John Quincy Adams after the Amistad case, and an early edition of the Book of Mormon given to Charles Francis Adams by Joseph Smith himself. [6]
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]
The tombs of Presidents John Adams (left) and John Quincy Adams (right) and their wives, Abigail Adams and Louisa Catherine Adams, in a family crypt beneath the church. United First Parish Church is an American Unitarian Universalist congregation in Quincy, Massachusetts, established as the parish church of Quincy in 1639.
It was the wedding of the year.. On September 12th, 1953, Jaqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married in a lavish fall ceremony at Newport, Rhode Island's St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
Boston was the center of revolutionary activity in the decade before 1775, with Massachusetts natives Samuel Adams, John Adams, and John Hancock as leaders who would become important in the revolution. Boston had been under military occupation since 1768. When customs officials were attacked by mobs, two regiments of British regulars arrived.