Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by John Adams. Something of a precursor to the ...

I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress.” In the fall of ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

When John Adams became the second president ... and establishing the Library of Congress. And he made tremendous ...

In response, 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to a Continental Congress in Philadelphia to draft a united response. John Adams, a Massachusetts delegate, wrote a "Declaration of Rights ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

John Adams also recorded his thoughts in a diary ... John writes his wife from Baltimore, where he is attending the Second Continental Congress. Abigail is in the middle of a troubled pregnancy.

Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by John Adams. Something of a precursor to the ...