. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . bellion of 1861. Is nt that an honorable record for threegenerations ? Come! there s our car. You have seen the spot in Bos-ton upon which stood the home of Cousin Sam Adams; now we can look upon thereal houses inwhich were bornand bred thesefamous Adamsesof Ouincy. Thereupon theyall boarded theBraintree elec-tric, and weresoon skimmingalong Franklinstreet to where,a mile beyond, atthe foot of PennsHill, stand whatare known as theAdams houses. Nothing verygrand or impos-ing about eitherof thos
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . bellion of 1861. Is nt that an honorable record for threegenerations ? Come! there s our car. You have seen the spot in Bos-ton upon which stood the home of Cousin Sam Adams; now we can look upon thereal houses inwhich were bornand bred thesefamous Adamsesof Ouincy. Thereupon theyall boarded theBraintree elec-tric, and weresoon skimmingalong Franklinstreet to where,a mile beyond, atthe foot of PennsHill, stand whatare known as theAdams houses. Nothing verygrand or impos-ing about eitherof those oldhouses, was Bertscritical comment. Little andshabby, eh ? re-marked Roger. I should say so! exclaimed out-spoken Jack. Why, I supposed the Adamses werevery high and mighty people with big estates and grand houses. Far from it, said Uncle Tom. John Adamss father, who built the oldhouse on our left, was a thrifty Braintree farmer, worth about seven or eightthousand dollars in lands and goods. But he managed to send his son toHarvard, from which the boy graduated in 1755, and from there went to. IX PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMSS taste of war with France —the Boston raking Le Berceau. IN THE HOME OF TWO PRESIDENTS 2 1 teaching school in Worcester. John Adams was born in 1735, in the right-hand front room in that little old house; John Ouincy Adams was born in
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