John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, on the family farm in the North End of Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the second of five children of his parents John and Susanna Boylston Adams. John's father was his role model as he was not only a farmer by trade, but he also took on many other time-consuming jobs in the community to help others. Everyone in his hometown dealt with him in one way or another because he held the titles: church deacon, selectman, tax collector, constable, and militia lieutenant. John's mother came from a very wealthy Boston family, but infamous for her bad temper. She remarried in 1766 following the death of John's father five years earlier due to the influenza epidemic. John never got along with his father-in-law, Lieutenant John Hall. John's childhood years were valuable to him because his parents gave him a lot of freedom to learn and explore on his own. Like most young boys, he showed no ambition in primary school; but he certainly loved the outdoors and preferred hunting to being involved in anything else. He loved hunting so much that he carried a gun with him to school every day so that he could hunt on his walk home. John's parents began to worry about his lack of interest in education around the age of ten. His father once asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up and John said he would be a farmer. The next day, his father drove him to the monotonous fields to prove to John that hard work and lack of education would haunt him for the rest of his life. He was treated like an adult would be treated at work and after the long day was over, John returned home; exhausted, sore and covered...... middle of paper ...... views. On July 4, 1826, Adams died in his hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. John Adams will always be remembered as a hero and actor in American history. Without his efforts and contributions to the formation of this country, the United States would not have become the glorious country it is today. American presidents. “John Adams.” C-SPAN. November 2005. November 21, 2005.2. Calhoon, Robert M. “Adams, John.” Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. Funk & Wagnalls Corporation: New York, NY, 1994.3. Presidential health. “President John Adams.” Doctor Zebra. December 13, 2003. October 17, 2005. http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g02.htm4. Presidents. “John Adams.” The White House. November 2005. October 19, 2005. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html5. Presidents. “John Adams.” From revolution to reconstruction. March 6, 2003. November 10. 2005.