John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his ... Minister's side in a damning letter to Congress: "... [H]aving nothing else wherewith to employ himself, [Adams] seems to have endeavored to ...

John Adams was born on October 30 ... In 1774 the Massachusetts legislature sent Adams to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, beginning a separation from Abigail that would last ...

On March 4, 1801, John Adams rose before dawn ... Scores were prosecuted for criticizing Adams, his administration, or Federalists in Congress. As if to prove Lyon’s point, the letter was ...