John adams early life
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Early Life of John Adams
Law Studies
Adams was certain that he was destined for greatness, in spite of his perceived disadvantages. One month later, on August 21, , John signed a contract with James Putnam, a young attorney from Worcester, to study law for two years. The following month, John moved in with Putnam to pursue his career in law while continuing to teach at the Worcester schoolhouse. He devoured the legal texts Putnam lent him, and in no time he had breezed through several legal books that would become crucial to his understanding of English law, and constitutional rights.
In the autumn of , Adams finished his two year contract with Putnam and moved back to Braintree to establish a legal practice of his own. But he continued to read legal texts voraciously. He was full of opinions, he would recall, but “I was young and then very bashful.” But still Adams had faith in his own star, and believing he was destined for greatness, he attended court where he witnessed the tw
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John Adams: Life Before the Presidency
Born into a comfortable, but not wealthy, Massachusetts farming family on October 30, , John Adams grew up in the tidy little world of New England village life. His father, a deacon in the Congregational Church, earned a living as a farmer and shoemaker in Braintree, roughly fifteen miles south of Boston. As a healthy young boy, John loved the outdoors, frequently skipping school to hunt and fish. He said later that he would have preferred a life as a farmer, but his father insisted that he receive a formal education. His father hoped that he might become a clergyman. John attended a dame school, a local school taught bygd a female teacher that was designed to teach the rudimentary skills of reading and writing, followed by a Latin school, a preparatory school for those who planned to attend college. He eventually excelled at his studies and entered Harvard College at age fifteen. He graduated in Young John, who had no interest in a ministeri
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John Adams
JOHN ADAMS was born in the North Precinct of Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, on 30 October , the eldest son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams. He graduated from Harvard College in and for the next two years taught school and studied law under the direction of James Putnam in Worcester, Mass. He returned to Braintree to launch his lag practice and married Abigail Smith of Weymouth on 25 October For several years the Adamses moved their household between Braintree and Boston as warranted bygd John’s successful law practice and the demands of the circuit court system. Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr. defended the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre Trials, successfully winning acquittals for seven of the defendants and reduced sentences of manslaughter for the remaining two.
From to , Adams served in the Continental Congress. He passionately urged independence for the colonies, and in the “Atlas of Independence” was appointed to the committee to draft a