Samuel Adams Research Paper

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Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts and had passed away October 2, 1803. According to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, he worked as a “Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1765; Delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1774; Signed Declaration of Independence, 1776; Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention, 1781; Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Mass., 1789; Elected Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-’97.” Samuels father, Samuel Deacon Adams was a political leader, a committed Puritan, and a wealthy merchant.
Samuel Deacon Adams his father has taught him much of what he knew about politics, rights of the colonies and religion. His mother Mary had taught him to read …show more content…

It was shut down in 1775 by the British authorities. Samuel believed that any political society should govern itself. March 1748, Adams father died and left him the family brewery but he had given it to his brother and brother in-law that were better business men. According to encyclopedia.com “after this time, he was elected to the Caucus Club, a political group whose members were able to control the Boston town meeting. In 1753 Samuel was elected an assessor, then in 1756 he became a Boston tax collector. Samuel was so bad about paying for everything he had owned that in 1758 the sheriff gave Adams a notice that on August 5 that all of it would be auctioned off and sold since he owned such a high debt. When the day had come he had wrote a letter to the sheriff stating that if anyone would buy or take his property that he would sue them. The auction never ended up taking place and he was then in 1765 removed as a tax collector due to him failing to collect 10,024.28 dollars that was owed by the citizens of Boston.”
According to the American Son Liberty, in 1766, “after much protest, especially form Boston, the Stamp Act was repealed, only to be follower by the Townshend Acts one year later.” Under the approval of the the State House of Representatives, he wrote the Massachusetts Circular Letter attacking taxation without representation and calling for unified resistance on the part of the colonies. March 5, 1770 the Boston Massacre, took place where an escaped slave was first killed and the was what set Samuel off to come up with the idea of Independence for the

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