ADAMS, Joseph

1654 - 1737  (82 years)

• Name	ADAMS, Joseph
  Birth	24 Dec 1654	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Abt Feb 1737	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Death	12 Feb 1737	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Person ID	I01598	Schuler
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2009

  
  

  Father	ADAMS, Joseph,   b. Abt 1626, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England d. 06 Dec 1694, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	BAXTER, Abigail,   b. Abt Sep 1634, Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 27 Aug 1692, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	02 Nov 1650	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Family ID	F00682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BASS, Hannah,   b. 22 Jun 1667, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 24 Oct 1705, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1688
  Children	1. ADAMS, Rev. Joseph,   b. 04 Jan 1688, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States + 2. ADAMS, Deacon John,   b. 8 Feb 1691, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 25 May 1761, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 70 years)   3. ADAMS, Samuel,   b. 28 Jan 1693/4, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 17 Jul 1751, Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 57 years)   4. ADAMS, Josiah,   b. 18 Feb 1696   5. ADAMS, Hannah,   b. 21 Feb 1698   6. ADAMS, Ruth,   b. 21 Mar 1700   7. ADAMS, Bethia,   b. 13 Jun 1702   8. ADAMS, Ebenezer,   b. 30 Dec 1704
  Family ID	F00690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	CHAPIN, Mary,   b. 27 Aug 1662, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 14 Jun 1687, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	20 Feb 1682	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
  Children	1. ADAMS, Mary,   b. 06 Feb 1683, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Jan 1733, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 49 years)   2. ADAMS, Abigail,   b. 17 Feb 1684, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 28 Apr 1722, Mendon, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years)
  Family ID	F00689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	HOBART, Elizabeth,   b. 12 Jun 1666   d. 13 Feb 1739, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 72 years)
  Children	1. ADAMS, Caleb,   b. 26 May 1710, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States d. 4 Jun 1710, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F00688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 24 Dec 1654 - Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Marriage - 20 Feb 1682 - Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Burial - Abt Feb 1737 - Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Death - 12 Feb 1737 - Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Only First Lady born outside the United States, Louisa Catherine Adams did not come to this country until four years after she had married John Quincy Adams. Political enemies sometimes called her English. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American--Joshua Johnson, of Maryland--and he served as United States consul after 1790. A career diplomat at 27, accredited to the Netherlands, John Quincy developed his interest in charming 19-year-old Louisa when they met in London in 1794. Three years later they were married, and went to Berlin in course of duty. At the Prussian court she displayed the style and grace of a diplomat's lady; the ways of a Yankee farm community seemed strange indeed in 1801 when she first reached the country of which she was a citizen. Then began years divided among the family home in Quincy, Massachusetts, their house in Boston, and a political home in Washington, D.C. When the Johnsons had settled in the capital, Louisa felt more at home there than she ever did in New England. She left her two older sons in Massachusetts for education in 1809 when she took two-year-old Charles Francis to Russia, where Adams served as Minister. Despite the glamour of the tsar's court, she had to struggle with cold winters, strange customs, limited funds, and poor health; an infant daughter born in 1811 died the next year. Peace negotiations called Adams to Ghent in 1814 and then to London. To join him, Louisa had to make a forty-day journey across war-ravaged Europe by coach in winter; roving bands of stragglers and highwaymen filled her with "unspeakable terrors" for her son. Happily, the next two years gave her an interlude of family life in the country of her birth. Appointment of John Quincy as Monroe's Secretary of State brought the Adamses to Washington in 1817, and Louisa's drawing room became a center for the diplomatic corps and other notables. Good music enhanced her Tuesday evenings at home, and theater parties contributed to her reputation as an outstanding hostess. But the pleasure of moving to the White House in 1825 was dimmed by the bitter politics of the election and by her own poor health. She suffered from deep depression. Though she continued her weekly "drawing rooms," she preferred quiet evenings--reading, composing music and verse, playing her harp. The necessary entertainments were always elegant, however; and her cordial hospitality made the last official reception a gracious occasion although her husband had lost his bid for re-election and partisan feeling still ran high. Louisa thought she was retiring to Massachusetts permanently, but in 1831 her husband began 17 years of notable service in the House of Representatives. The Adamses could look back on a secure happiness as well as many trials when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Quincy in 1847. He was fatally stricken at the Capitol the following year; she died in Washington in 1852, and today lies buried at his side in the family church at Quincy. - Official Whitehouse Biography from Whitehouse.gov