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Profile Information

 * Name: Samuel Adams
 * Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts
 * Date of Birth: September 27, 1722
 * Job title: Leader of Sons of Liberty
 * Education: Harvard College

Friends

 * Friend #1: Elizabeth Wells Adams - Samuel Adams wife.


 * Friend #2: John Adams - Second cousin and President of the United States.




 * Friend #3: Abigail Adams - John Adams wife.

Friend #4


 * Friend #4 Patrick Henry - Member of the Sons of Liberty
 * [[image:http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/06/hith-patrick-henry-494584463-E.jpeg width="301" height="169"]]

Friend #5


 * Friend #5: John Hancock - Member of the Sons of Liberty



About Me
I was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. I graduated from Harvard College in 1740. I was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before I got into politics. In 1768, I wrote the Massachusetts Circular Letter which called for colonials not to cooperate with the British Parliament wanting to tax the 13 colonies. This lead to the Boston Massacre of 1770. The colonists continued to resist the British which lead to the 1773 Boston Tea Party.

I founded the Sons of Liberty to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. The Sons of Liberty battled the Stamp Act in 1765. Our motto was “no taxation without representation.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">I served as a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress until 1781 and I helped to separate from Great Britain and signed the Declaration of Independence alongside his second cousin, John Adams, the second president of the U.S.

Wall Posts
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 * Wall Post #1:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I was at the Boston Massacre in 1770 and I saw the British kill a lot of my friends.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I helped to lead the Boston Tea Party in 1773 because I didn’t want the colonists to be taxed anymore.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I was a legislator of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1774.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I signed the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.