November: Adams sails for Europe to negotiate the peace treaty with England as the sole United States representative. John Quincy and nine-year-old Charles accompany him. January: Adams moves to ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be ... At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic missions to Europe, they became close friends. Later, their friendship would sour, and ...