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ELIZABETH COOMBS ADAMS (1808-1903), second daughter of Thomas Boylston and Ann (Harrod) Adams, never married and lived all her life in Quincy. One of her hobbies was preserving family mementoes and chronicling family history in the form of notes and marginalia.
GEORGE WASHINGTON ADAMS (1801-1829), eldest son of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams, was a member of the class of 1821 at Harvard. He studied law but was much more devoted to literature. He took his own life by jumping from a steamboat in Long Island Sound.
THOMAS BOYLSTON ADAMS (1772-1832), third son and youngest child of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, graduated from Harvard in 1790 and studied law. 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.
GEORGE BEAUFORT is evidently a boyish pseudonym for SAMUEL COOPER JOHONNOT (1768-1806), who accompanied the Adamses on their voyage from Boston to Spain, November-December 1779. Johonnot was a grandson of the Reverend Samuel Cooper and a son of Gabriel Johonnot of Boston; he was sent abroad for schooling under the care of John Adams and later Benjamin Franklin. Returning home several years later, he graduated from Harvard in 1783, practiced law in Portland, Maine, and became U.S. Consul at Demerara, British Guiana, where he died. There was no George Beaufort aboard La Sensible on the voyage to Spain in 1779, but John Quincy Adams' journal of this voyage frequently mentions young Johonnot, and according to a note in Adams' hand at the end of the "Beaufort" journal this MS diary was presented by Johonnot to Adams, presumably soon after the voyage.
JAMES BLAKE (1751-1771), of Dorchester, graduated from Harvard in 1769 and studied for the ministry with the Reverend William Smith, Abigail Adams' father.
THOMAS CALLENDER (1778-1827) was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and married Anne Maria Smith, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith and granddaughter of the Reverend John Witherspoon of Princeton, New Jersey, at New Orleans in 1808. Callender appears to have spent his mature life in Princeton and New York City. The presence of Callender's memorandum book in the Adams Papers is as yet unexplained.
THOMAS BAKER JOHNSON (1778?-1843), younger brother of Louisa Catherine Johnson (Mrs. John Quincy Adams), was a valetudinarian traveler of whom little is known beyond the voluminous and disorderly diaries which he left and which are now preserved among the Adams Papers.
ELISE CHARLOTTE OTT? (1818-1904), of Danish and English ancestry, came to the United States about 1840 to serve as schoolmistress and companion in the Grinnell family of New Bedford. She returned to England and achieved a reputation as a student of linguistics.
WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH (1755-1816), of New York, married Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams in London in 1786. He had served in the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, part of the time as aide to General Washington. From 1813 to 1816 he was a member of Congress from New York.
WILLIAM STEUBEN SMITH (1787-1850), eldest child of William Stephens and Abigail (Adams) Smith, accompanied his uncle John Quincy Adams to St. Petersburg in 1809. In 1813 he married Catherine Maria Frances Johnson, younger sister of Mrs. John Quincy Adams.
SAMUEL TUCKER (1747-1833) was captain of the Continental frigate Boston that carried John Adams and his son John Quincy to France on the former's first diplomatic mission early in 1778.
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