Season 3, Episode 2-John Adams’ Tomb

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Season 3, Episode 2: John Adams’ Tomb

Largely overshadowed by his more famous predecessor and successor, John Adams has a striking gravesite, today resting beside his famous wife and son! Learn about John Adams’ post-Presidency, his decline and death, his funeral, gravesite, and more!

Make sure to listen to John Adams’ “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 1, “John Adams and Braintree” for his birthplace!

Also, listen to John Adams’ “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 2, “John Adams and Peacefield” for his home!

Visitors Program at United First Parish Church.

John Quincy Adams letter on his parent’s tomb from WickedLocal.com.

John Adams’ death in John Adams (miniseries).

From My Summer 2022 Visit!

United First Parish Church, the “Church of the Presidents”
With the sign
The stunning sanctuary
The epitaph in the sanctuary
With John Adams
In the basement, the marker for John Adams and the gate to the crypt
Looking in the crypt
With John Adams’ grave
John Adams
Abigail Adams’ grave
With the four graves in the crypt
John Adams’ marker and entrance
John and me
Abigail’s marker
Relics in the basement
From the church ledger
More items
Model of the older church
In the crypt with the markers behind
Marker at the church entrance

From My Summer 2017 Visit!

The sanctuary at United First Parish Church, the “Church of the Presidents”
John and Abigail Adams’ epitaph in the sanctuary
In the crypt
John Adams and the grille gate to the crypt
Abigail Adams
In the tight crypt location
John and Abigail Adams resting side-by-side
John Adams’ granite tomb

John Adams’ Original Gravesite

Statue of John Adams near United First Parish Church.
John Adams
Postcard of John Adams’ crypt, early 20th century.

John Adams Tomb: United First Parish Church, 1306 Hancock Street, Quincy, Massachusetts.

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Recommended Reading for John Adams

David McCullough, John Adams.
John Ferling, John Adams: A Life.
John Ferling, Adams vs Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800.

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