John Adams

📍133 Franklin Street, Quincy, MA 02169, USA

“I was born in October 1735 in this saltbox farmhouse at the foot of Penn's Hill in Braintree, now Quincy, ten miles south of Boston — a modest six-acre farm where my father, a farmer, shoemaker and church deacon, raised us to work hard and fear God. He sold land to send me to Harvard, hoping I would become a minister; I chose the law instead. When I married Abigail Smith in 1764, we moved into the second saltbox, a few paces from the house I was born in, and there our son John Quincy was born — he too would become president. The front room was my law office, and in it, in the autumn of 1779, I drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, still the oldest written constitution in use in the world. Through years of public service in Philadelphia, Paris, London and Washington, while Abigail ran the farm and kept us all together with her letters, these fields called me home. The two houses and our later home, Peacefield, now form Adams National Historical Park.”

Sources: Wikipedia: John Quincy Adams Birthplace scholarworks.gvsu.edu thehistorymom.com