There is a magnificent stone library built by Charles Francis Adams in 1870; its 12,000+ volumes include a copy of the Book of Mormon signed by Joseph Smith and the Mendi Bible presented to John ...

President John Adams. By Andrew Glass 10/29/2016 09:58 PM EDT On this day in 1735, John Adams, America’s second president, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.

“It was a full house,” Dennehy told the Forum the next day. “There were about 300 people there.” As part of the event, the birth records of Adams and John Hancock, another Braintree native ...

A 300-year-old house owned by distant cousins of President John Adams has been named to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places ...

House Backs Plan for John Adams Memorial Previous attempts to honor Adams have stalled Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-Mass., spoke of the need for a John Adams memorial in the nation's capital.