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Built in 1731, this mansion in Quincy, Massachusetts was purchased by John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S. As a Federalists. He was on the committee of 5 that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and signed that document. He, with Josiah Quincy, Jr., defended the British soldiers arrested after the ?Boston Massacre.? He died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. His son John Quincy Adams, 6th President as a National Republican, the precursors of the Whigs, also lived here. After a term as President, he was defeated for re-election and then elected, largely by Anti-Masonic votes, to be Congressman from Mass. |
