SECOND UNITED STATES PRESIDENT THE PURITAN Henry Adams, a Puritan, in 1636, came with his wife from Barton St. David in Somerset County, England to settle in America. He earned enough money to buy a farm ten miles south of Boston later called Braintree. The third generation of Adams, still in Braintree was John Adams, the father of our second president. He was a farmer, shoemaker, as well as deacon which is an assistant minister of …showed first 75 words of 4409 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4409 total…last words were: 'Thomas Jefferson still survives'. Little did he know that Jefferson had died just a few hours before. Adams was the longest living president. He died less than 4 months before his 91 birthday. He was buried in Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams, by defending the Declaration of Independence, by making peace treaties during the Revolutionary War, and by establishing the military forces, showed the world that the United States of America was here to stay.