Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was born 27 Sep. 1722 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. He was the son of Samuel Adams and Mary Fifield. He married Elizabeth Checkley on 17 Oct. 1749; widowed 25 Jul. 1757. He married Elizabeth Wells on 6 Dec. 1764. He died 2 Oct. 1803. He was one of the eminent men for whom Wilford Woodruff initiated proxy temple ordinance work in Aug. 1877.

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