John Adams’ Mother: Susanna Boylston Susanna Boylston Adams Hall was the mother of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the grandmother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She was born to a prominent American family on the 5th of March ...
Political and economic conditions in Boston were increasingly turbulent. Copley's father-in-law, Mr. Clarke, was the merchant to whom was consigned the tea that provoked theBoston Tea Party. Copley's family connections were allLoyalists. He defended his wife's relatives at a meeting described i...
John Singleton Copley is an artist that changed the history of art. John Singleton Copley is an artist native to Boston, Massachusetts. Although there was nothing found on his education it is believed that he was taught by his step father. John Singleton Copley followed in his step fathers fo...
It is our feeling that the weakness of the Cowdrey, Davis, Scales book is not in its premise that Rigdon and Smith knew each other before the conversion of Rigdon in November of 1830, or that they had ample opportunity (and perhaps did) get together on one or several occasions but that...