Samuel adams early life and education

Samuel Adams lived his early life in his family house on Purchase Street, facing the Boston Harbor. Boston was a very different city then.

Samuel Adams Timeline - Have Fun With History

Fifteen thousand people lived on a peninsula that became an island when the isthmus called Boston Neck was covered with water at high tide. Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 27, 1722. Son of Samuel Adams Sr.and Mary Fifield. As a child he enjoyed playing with the neighborhood kids in the narrow cobblestone streets. He had 11 siblings of which only 2 lived past their third birthday.

His father, Samuel Adams Sr.

was a deacon of the Congregational Church, a businessman and a politician.

Samuel Adams - World History Encyclopedia

Sam was born in a prominent and wealthy family that had high expectations of him. Both parents were strict puritans; his mother was a very religious woman who supported the narrow Calvinist faith movement. As a result his family’s religious beliefs played an important role in their son’s education.

His parents wanted Samuel Adams - American History ROW