Adams (Samuel) is born in Boston.

The son of Samuel and Mary (Fifield) Adams, Samuel Adams is born on Purchase Street, graduates from Harvard College, where he receives a master’ degree in 1743.* He inherits his father’s brewery in 1748, but soon goes bankrupt, marries Elizabeth Checkley in 1749, and Elizabeth Wells in 1764.* Adams is elected to town meeting in 1765,* serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1765-1774) and Senate (1781-1784, 1786-1787), the Continental Congress (1774-81), as lieutenant governor (1789-94), and governor (1794-1797). Called the “Father of the American Revolution” for his talents as a political organizer, he dies at his home at 5 Winter Street on October 2, 1803,* and is buried in the Granary Burying Grounds.