Adams, Samuel

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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.

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Adams was a brewer and a cousin of John Adams.

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Adams, Samuel

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

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

Adams, Samuel, opposes Sugar Act, 218; and the Stamp Act, 220; deserted by his friends, 231; promotes patriotic meetings, 238; in the First Continental Congress, 245; one of earliest to desire independence, 248.

From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd

Adams, Samuel, member of first Continental Congress, 108; of the second, 173; friendship of Henry for, 206; unfavorable to federal Constitution, 330.

From Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

Adams, Samuel, 49, 57, 59, 60, 162, 175, 176.

From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer

Other and renowned names, by written or spoken eloquence, coöperated effectively, splendidly, to the grand result,—Samuel Adams, Samuel Chase, Jefferson, Henry James Otis in an earlier stage.

From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick