John_Adams

John Adams John Adams the second President of the United States was born in Braintree Massachusetts on October 30, 1735. The oldest some of his father John Adams, who was a farmer and Susanna Bolyston Adams. John Adams was brought up on a farm his grandfather had cleared out for his family over one hundred years earlier. He became greatly attached to Braintree. Adams attended school in Braintree up until age 16 when then he enrolled in Harvard College. Graduating in 1755 Adams took a teaching job in Worcester, Massachusetts. Although a teacher he continued to study, he was most interested in Latin, history, and law. He soon discarded his plan in becoming clergymen and focused on law. He was a very intelligent and disciplined scholar and he gained a great knowledge of law that was probably unheard of in colonial America. In 1758 Adams began to practice law in his hometown of Braintree. He slowly gained recognition as an able lawyer. Then he went on to practice law in Boston. In Boston he had met many interesting men who he would meet up with further down the road. In 1761 John Adams began to feel patriotic. A new King had been john, adams, boston, act, stamp, law, soldiers, said, preston, one, mob, captain, very, trial, out, day, braintree, took, first, court, case, began, after, witnesses, order, massachusetts, jury, british, against, two, quincy, practice, next, news, massacre, march