Cranch was the husband of Mary Smith, Abigail Adams' older sister. The Smith sisters were Col. John Quincy's maternal granddaughters. Col. John Quincy, 1689-1767, was the great-grandson of Edmund ...

Cranch was the husband of Mary Smith, Abigail Adams' older sister. The Smith sisters were Col. John Quincy's maternal granddaughters. Col. John Quincy, 1689-1767, was the great-grandson of Edmund ...

On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife stating ... It’s possible this myth can be traced back to 1767’s Townshend Revenue Acts which stated, “For every hundred weight avoirdupois of crown, ...

The only problem is that nobody knows for sure which family member's house the Jacksons were staying with on March 15, 1767 ... voted to elect John Quincy Adams as president over Jackson, which ...

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas ... in the House of Representatives as supporters of Henry Clay voted for John Quincy Adams.” Jackson, who advocated ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...

The President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm for representing clients he doesn’t like.