Ancestry of
John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

John Adams

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Adams Morgan — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Adams Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Bass   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Feb 1690/1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Mar 1691 
  • Christening Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 25 May 1761 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Boylston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Nov 1734 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Adams Jr. (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  Peter Boylston Adams

  Elihu Adams

  • Notes: 

  • Deacon of the Church at Quincy, Massachusetts.

• Sources for John Adams

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Births, Vol. 1, p. 202, Birth record for son John Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/31/2012).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 308.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 422.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 132-135.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Lothrop, Thomas J., "John White of Watertown and Brookline, and Some of His Descendants", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 52 (1898), 422.
  • ⁸ McCullough, David, John Adams, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001), 30.
  • ⁹ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 127.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139.
  • ¹¹ 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.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 34.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 432, 465-466.
  • ¹⁴ Seward, William H., Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan (1856), 18.
  • ¹⁵ 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), 143, 490-492.