Webb Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameThomas Boylston Adams 2567
Death13 Mar 1832, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA, USA4561
Graduation1790, Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA, USA4561
MemoStudied Law
FlagsDeceased
Notes for Thomas Boylston Adams
From the Massachusetts Historical Society:
4561THOMAS BOYLSTON ADAMS, third son and youngest child of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born 15 September 1772. He graduated from Harvard in 1790 and studied law in Philadelphia. He accompanied his brother John Quincy on his first diplomatic mission to Europe as secretary in 1794, returned in 1798, and practiced law and contributed to Joseph Dennie's Port Folio in Philadelphia for some years thereafter. In 1805 he married Ann Harrod of Haverhill and settled in Quincy, which he represented in the Massachusetts legislature, 1805-1806. In 1811 he was appointed chief justice of the circuit court of common pleas for the southern circuit of Massachusetts. Thomas Boylston Adams died on 13 March 1832, in Quincy.