Interesting facts about samuel adams
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Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
The Boston Tea Party Ships Arrive in Griffin’s Wharf
By November 28, the crisis was now on the doorstep of Boston. The first tea ship to arrive was the Dartmouth owned by the Rotch family. The ship arrived with 114 crates of East India Company tea. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty now had a deadline. According to customs law, the ship had only twenty days to unload its cargo. The twentieth day would be December 17, 1773. Still two more ships arrived. On December 2, the Eleanor arrived with 114 crates, and on December 15, the Beaver had joined the other two ships at Griffin’s Wharf.
Samuel Adams took the lead in negotiating with ship owners, and the customs officials for the port of Boston. On December 3, Adams ordered John Rowe, the owner of the Eleanor to unload his other cargo, but not the tea. On December 11, Adams and the Boston Committee of Correspondence ordered Francis Rotch, the owner of the Dartmouth and Beaver, to set sail for London with the East India Company tea onboard. Rotch refused to because his ships would be broadsided by two Brit
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Among the Revolutionary era leaders of Boston, few possessed the fervent passion of Samuel Adams.
Born on September 16, 1722 in Boston to two shipping families, Samuel Adams grew up in a home that encouraged both strict Puritan values and political activism.1 His critical assessment of political systems first arose during his time at Harvard, where Adams published a thesis that argued, "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved?"
Adams' borderline obsession with government and his lack of business acumen prevented him from holding a steady job until his election to the position of tax collector in 1756. His personal life faced its own challenges. His first wife, Elizabeth Checkley, passed away in 1757 after less than ten years of marriage. The tragedy spurred Adams into further pursuing politics. He remarried to Elizabeth Wells in 1764.
When British Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764, Adams' role in government changed dramatically. The Act disproportionately affected Massachusetts, leading the Boston Town Mee
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Samuel Adams
(1722-1803)
Who Was Samuel Adams?
A strong opponent of British taxation, Samuel Adams helped formulate resistance to the Stamp Act and played a vital role in organizing the Boston Tea Party. He was a second cousin of U.S. President John Adams, with whom he urged a final break from Great Britain, and a signee of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Early Life
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts. Adams graduated from Harvard College in 1740, and would soon be known as a Patriot and one of the United States' Founding Fathers.
Political Career
A strong opponent of British taxation, Adams helped organize resistance in Boston to Britain's Stamp Act of 1765. He also played a vital role in organizing the Boston Tea Party — an act of opposition to the Tea Act of 1773 — among various other political efforts.
Adams served as a legislator of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1774. Among his accomplishments, he founded Boston's Committee of Correspondence, which — like similar entities in other towns across the Colonies — proved a powerful t
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