BIRTH.- - EDUCATION.- RESIDENCE IN EUROPE.-AT COLLEGE.-AT THE BAR.-POLITICAL ESSAYS.- MINISTER AT THE HAGUE-AT BERLIN. RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, son of John and Abigail Adams, was born on the 11th of July, 1767, in the North Parish of Braintree, Massachusetts-since incorporated as the town of Quincy. The lives and characters of his parents, intimately associated with the history of the American Revolution, have been already ably and faithfully illustrated.*
The origin of his name was thus stated by himself: "My great-grandfather, John Quincy,† was dying when I was baptized, and his daughter, my grandmother, requested I might receive his name. This fact, recorded by my father at the time, is not without a moral to my heart, and has connected with that
* See "Letters of Mrs. Adams, with an Introductory Memoir," and "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, with a Life of the Author," by their grandson, Charles Francis Adams.
† John Quincy represented the town of Braintree in the colonial legislature forty years, and long held the office of speaker.