John Quincy Adams

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Born in Brentri (Quincy), in Massachusetts, the boy accompanied his father twice in Europe, the youth spent in Paris, The Hague and England. In the first year of the war, young John Quincy Adams feared for the life of his father and worried that the British might take his family hostage. Indeed, when John Adams signed his name to the Declaration of Independence, he committed an act of treason against England, an offense punishable by death. For John Quincy, these years were actually the beginning of his manhood, and he recalled later in life ...