John Adams

John Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. He was the son of John and Susanna Boylston Adams. He was raised in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. As a young man, John went to School in Braintree and entered Harvard college at age 16. Latin, history , and law were his majors. As a disciplined scholar, he quickly learned a large amount of information about colonial law and government. Eventually he became a lawyer in Boston. …

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