In 1777, on John Quincy's 10th birthday ... Three more children followed, all born in New York: John Adams, Thomas (who died at age one), and Caroline Amelia. While Smith had seemed a suitable ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries' harrowing journey was the first aerial crossing between France and Britain Sonja Anderson A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the ...

Business owner David Brambila has a long history in Quincy, Massachusetts ... center” that would honor both Adams and his father, the second U.S. president John Adams. Four years later, crews ...

followed by John Quincy in 1767; Susanna in 1768, but died in 1770; Charles was born in 1770; and Thomas in 1772. A sixth child, Elizabeth, was stillborn in 1777. In 1765 Adams took his first ...