1722/09/27 |
Mary Fifield Adams, wife of Samuel Adams, gives birth to a son, Samuel Adams Jr in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay OS September 16. Born one of twelve children born, only three will live past age three. |
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Samuel Adams's Birthday |
1736/00/00 |
Samuel Adams graduates from the Boston Latin School (lost) and enters Harvard College. Where he begins to formulate his political ideas. |
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Old Harvard Yard |
Cambridge, MA |
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1740/08/27 |
Samuel Adams graduates from Harvard College. Since his junior year, his father has been able to afford board at a private home in Cambridge, a privilege that allows young Adams to avoid college food. |
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Old Harvard Yard |
Cambridge, MA |
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1742/10/00 |
Due to his family's financial hardships, Sam Adams Jr pays for his graduate degree at Harvard by waiting on tables in the common dining hall. |
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Massachusetts Hall, Harvard U |
Cambridge, MA |
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Land Bank, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
1743/06/00 |
Samuel Adams earns his graduate degree from Harvard. His thesis is titled "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved?" |
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Old Harvard Yard |
Cambridge, MA |
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1765/08/00 |
Samuel Adams establishes the Sons Of Liberty in Boston. |
American Patriot |
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Stamp Act Congress |
1770/02/26 |
Christopher Seider, a son of poor German immigrants, is buried in Granary Burying Ground. |
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Granary Burying Ground |
Boston |
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Death of Christopher Seider |
1773/11/29 |
Before a crowd of 5000 in and around Faneuil Hall, Samuel Adams' resolution, "that the tea should not be landed - that it should be sent back in the same bottom to the place whence it came, at all events, and that no duty should be paid on it," is adopted |
Ringleader |
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Faneuil Hall |
Boston |
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Boston Tea Party |
1773/12/16 |
More than 5000 American colonists meet at the South Meeting House to decide the fate of three ships (BEAVER, ELEANOR and DARTMOUTH) loaded with tea docked at Griffin's Wharf |
Ringleader |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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Boston Tea Party |
1773/12/16 |
More than 5000 American colonists meet at the South Meeting House to decide the fate of three ships (BEAVER, ELEANOR and DARTMOUTH) loaded with tea docked at Griffin's Wharf |
Ringleader |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt |
1774/00/00 |
During 1774, John and Samuel Adams stay at the Square House as they travel to and from the Continental Congress. |
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Widow Haviland's Tavern |
Rye |
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1775/03/05 |
Samuel Adams moderates an anual meeting at the Old South Meeting House commemorating the Boston Massacre. Speakers included Dr Joseph Warren, John Hancock, Benjamin Church and James Lovell. |
Patriot |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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1775/04/19 |
About midnight: Paul Revere arrives at Lexington warning John Hancock and Samuel Adams they are about to be arrested. |
American Patriot to be arrested |
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Hancock-Clarke House |
Lexington, MA |
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The Midnight Ride |
1795/07/04 |
During a Masonic ceremony, Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere lay the cornerstone of the new Massachusetts State House on pasture land owned by the John Hancock family. |
Massachusetts Governor |
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Massachusetts Statehouse |
Boston |
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1803/10/02 |
American Patriot Samuel Adams dies at the age of 81. He is buried at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. |
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Granary Burying Ground |
Boston |
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