Adams, Samuel

1. A political leader at the time of the American Revolutionary War. From the time of the Stamp Act to the Declaration of Independence, he was the most effective organizer in Massachusetts of opposition to British rule.

Adams was a brewer and a cousin of John Adams.

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Unlike his cousin John Adams, Samuel cared more about swaying men behind the scenes than about taking credit for posterity.

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Is it creditable that those wary, able men, Franklin, Samuel Adams, Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Cooper, and others, really thought the very quiet statements contained "in the letters in which there was no sentiment which the Governor had not openly expressed in his addresses to the Legislature, was a danger and menace to the welfare of the colony?"

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Adams, Samuel, circular letter, 440-441; trouble with Governor Bernard, 443; the man of the town meeting, 445-446; in First Continental Congress, 451; on committee to draft Articles of Confederation, 550.

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Adams, Samuel, 5, 28, 208, 315, xv., xviii.

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Adams, Samuel, an American statesman, second cousin of President John Adams, was born in Boston, 27th Sept.,

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