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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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, a pet aversion of the Hartford wits, 99, 100.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.

Adams, Samuel, 53, 58, 68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 82, 84, 85, 88, 107, 149.

From The War of Independence by Fiske, John

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

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

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 Tyler, Moses Coit