Susanna Boylston
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Susanna Boylston Adams Hall (March 5, 1708 – April 17, 1797) was a prominent early-American socialite
Socialite
A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....

, mother of the second U.S. President, John Adams
John Adams
John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

 and grandmother of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

.

She married John Adams, Sr.
John Adams, Sr.
John Adams, Sr. was the father of the second U.S. President, John Adams, and grandfather of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. He was, in turn, a fifth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1638. He was...

 in 1734. She is among the least well known of the famous Adams family, for her name appears infrequently in the large body of Adams writings. However, her son's diary reveals that she had a fiery temper.

John Adams and Susanna Boylston Adams had the following children:
  • John Adams
    John Adams
    John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

  • Peter Boylston Adams – farmer, militia captain of Braintree, Massachusetts.
  • Elihu Adams
    Elihu Adams
    Elihu Adams was the brother of United States President John Adams. He was captain of the Braintree Company at the Siege of Boston, and a minuteman who fought on the Concord Green in 1775. Born May 29, 1741 to John Adams and Susanna Boylston and died while serving in the Continental Army March 18,...

    – a company commander in the militia during the American Revolution; died from a dysentery.


Five years after the death of her first husband, she married Lt. John Hall, who apparently did not get along with her grown children. She died in the first year of her son's presidency.
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