Ancestry of
John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

John Adams Jr.

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• • Father of John Quincy Adams — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah Boylston   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Oct 1735 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jul 1826 
  • Death Location:
  • Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Stone Temple, United First Parish Church, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Quincy Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1764 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail "Nabby" Adams

  John Quincy Adams (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Susanna "Suky" Adams

  Charles Adams

  Thomas Boylston Adams

  Elizabeth Adams

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd President of the United States

    Declaration of Independence

    Birthdate was 19 OCT 1735 o.s.

• Sources for John Adams Jr.

  • ¹ Braintree Massachusetts Vital Records, Births, Vol. 1, p. 202, Birth record for John Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/04/2014).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 2, p. 11, Marriage record for John Adams and Abigail Smith.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 308.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 422.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 77.
  • ⁷ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 7-15.
  • ⁸ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 100-135.
  • ⁹ Levin, Phyllis Lee, Abigail Adams: A Biography, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, An imprint of St. Martin's Press (2001), chart at front of book.
  • ¹⁰ McCullough, David, John Adams, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 1, 214.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 375.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 34.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 432, 465-466, 468-470.
  • ¹⁶ The Massachusetts Historical Society, "Adams Time Line (1735-1889)", (accessed 08/02/2011).
  • ¹⁷ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 301.
  • ¹⁸ Wikipedia, "John Adams", (accessed 02/26/2010).
  • ¹⁹ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 492.