How did samuel adams die
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Among the Revolutionary era leaders of Boston, few possessed the fervent passion of Samuel Adams.
Born on September 16, 1722 in Boston to two shipping families, Samuel Adams grew up in a home that encouraged both strict Puritan values and political activism.1 His critical assessment of political systems first arose during his time at Harvard, where Adams published a thesis that argued, "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved?"
Adams' borderline obsession with government and his lack of business acumen prevented him from holding a steady job until his election to the position of tax collector in 1756. His personal life faced its own challenges. His first wife, Elizabeth Checkley, passed away in 1757 after less than ten years of marriage. The tragedy spurred Adams into further pursuing politics. He remarried to Elizabeth Wells in 1764.
When British Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764, Adams' role in government changed dramatically. The Act disproportionately affected Massachusetts, leading the Boston Town Mee
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About
SAMUEL ADAMS, the second governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1722. His education was attained at the Boston Latin School, and at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1740. After several unsuccessful business ventures, Adams entered into a political career. He served as the Boston tax collector from 1756 to 1764, was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1765 to 1774, served as clerk of the house in 1774, and was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1782. Adams rapidly emerged as an outspoken and driven advocate of establishing independence from Great Britain, and subsequently, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He also served as a member of the 1779 and 1788 Massachusetts Constitutional Conventions, was president of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1781, served as a key delegate in Massachusetts’s ratifying of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, and served as the Massachusetts lieutenant governor from 1789 to 1794. On October 8, 1793, Governor John Hancock passed away
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Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary
Footnotes:
[1] John Adams, Diary of John Adams, December 23,1765.
[2] William V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1865) 410.
[3] Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, Wives of the Signers: the Women Behind the Declaration of Independence (Wallbuilder Press, 1997).
[4] Samuel Adams, To the Representatives of Boston, May 24, 1764. The Writings of Samuel Adams Vol I 1764-1769, collected and edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing (G.P. Putnum, 1904) 5.
[5] John Winthrop, John A Model of Christian Charity, 1630.
[6]Boston Gazette, December 5, 1768.
[7] Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford History of the American People (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 192.
[8]Boston Evening Post, April 10, 1769.
[9]Boston Gazette, January 8, 1770.
[10] Samuel Adams to Dennys De Berdt, November 16,1769.
[11] Thomas Hutchinson to William Dalrymple, March 6, 1770.
[12] Samuel Adams to Arthur Lee, September 27,1771.
[13]Boston Gazette, November 25, 1771.
[14]Boston Gazette,
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