John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, 1796

Portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1796

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John Quincy Adams’ Birthplace

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BORN:
11 July 1767 in the north precinct of Braintree, Massachusetts (now Quincy)
  DIED:
23 February 1848 at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Buried at Quincy, in a crypt at United First Parish Church.
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Mr. Adams is the most valuable public character we have abroad ... there remains no doubt in my mind that he will prove himself to be ablest, of all our diplomatic corps.

— George Washington in a letter to John Adams, 1797

Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

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Loyalism was a siren call for the British. They were constantly bending their strategy to conform to the chimera of Loyalist support that was assumed to be there but somehow never materialized. Howe’s Philadelphia campaign and Burgoyne’s invasion from Canada, as well as the British strategy in the South, were based on the assumption that large numbers of Loyalists would rise in support, if only sufficiently encouraged and protected ...

— Michael Stephenson
Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought (2007)