SAM ADAMS

SAM ADAMS

• Samuel Adams was born on September 22, 1722, Died on October 2, 1803.
• He was born in Boston, Massachusetts's.
• Work:Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1765; Delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1774; Signed Declaration of Independence, 1776; Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention, 1781; Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Mass., 1789; Elected Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-'97.
• He had a legacy as the "Father of the American Revolution."
• He had formed connections with John Hancock.
  
• At the first continental congress he worked close with his cousin John Adams.

Sam Adams was born on September 22, 1722 in Boston Massachusetts. He was educated at Boston Latin School, and Harvard college. Sam Adams married Elizabeth Checkley on October 17, 1749. They had six children during their eight years together. Four of the six children died. A son Samuel and daughter Hannah lived to adulthood. Three weeks after Elizabeth gave born to a stillborn son, she died. Sam Adams soon became "the father of the revolution." Sam Adams died at the age of 81 at October 2, 1803

Sam Adams and Patrick Henry were the first to feel very strong about independence. Sam Adams wrote letters and such and sent them to newspapers and others, signing each with a different name so people thought everyone wanted independence. Sam Adams convinced many young men independence is good. Paul Revere, John Adams, and John Hancock were some of the people who agreed with his ideas about independence. When the Stamp Act of 1765 came about, Sam Adams started a protest. He told the mob how to react. The Stamp act ended in 1766. Then the Boston Tea party happened, which Sam Adams had also planned. This was a big help with starting the Revolution. The British knew he was a trouble maker, hence his nickname "the most dangerous man in Massachusetts." Adams was a member of the Continental Congress with the three other chosen delegates from Massachusetts, which are, Thomas Cushing, Robert T. Paine, and John Adams, from, 1774 to 1781. His opinions were not well liked by some, until he gained fame on one particular night, when he and John Hancock were almost captured by the British. Paul Revere and William Dawes arrived just in time to warn them to go into hiding. Local Militia were warned and there to meet the British soldiers when they arrived. That is when the fighting began on The War of Independence.
Sam Adams Signed the Declaration of Independence along with John Hancock,

"Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton.-" Taken from - http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857707.html

Samuel Adams participated in the Revolution the way he did because he felt very strong about independence. He thought what the British were doing was completely wrong. So he fought for what he believed in and finally signed the declaration of independence with the 55 others.

I believe that Samuel Adams deserves better recognition that what he has gotten. He fought with all he had for what he believed in and it did get the point across. He was one of the main reasons the Revolution started. So for those reasons I do believe he should get more recognition than he has received.