Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-07-25
The AdamS'S.

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says that her only surviving child is Chas.
Francis Adams, of Boston; and pro-
ceeds to give the following interesting
family sketci:
The other male descendants of the
elder Adams: of the third generation, who
bear his Manu., are the three sons of the
late Thomas Boylston Adams, a brother
of John Quincy Adams. They are Isaac
Hull Adams, a Civil Engineer, John @.
Adams, and Joseph Harrod Adams. both
of the U. S. Navy. The eldest son of
Tomas B. Adams was a highly accom-
pIished officer of the Army, who died in
Florida during the Seminole war. He
was a graduate of West Point. Thomas
B. Adams, Or the "%Judge;;" as he was
always styled, was the second son Of John
Adams. He was a man of fine talents,
agreeable MINERS, and conviyial withal.
He had spent some years in Europe in
early life, and accompanied the King of
Prussia as honorary aid-de-camp on the
disastrous f.Id of jena. His description
of that day Of carnage was graphic and
vivid in the extreme. For many years
he was a Justice of the Massachusetts
Court of Sessions, but the dignity of the
bench was egarded as impaired by his
cornwall habits, and the court was
abolished. The remainder of his days he
spent at Quincy; living for several years
in the hous. 10 which his ilIustrious father
was born, a very ordinary cottage, paint-
ed red, on the road to Braintree. After
his father became infrm, he removed with
his family b the we'll known Adams man.
sion. He vas the perfect antipodes of his
brother join, and when the news Of the
~Iatter's election t o the Presidency was
brought to Quincy byJ.J. jerome, about
one O'Clock on a cool March morning, the
Judge refused to leave his comfortable
bed to enertain the messenger and his
friends, and after muttering a few words
about the s'confounded BOTHER" turned
over and resumed his slumbers; while
his accomplished wife was doing the
honors bebw stairs. Charles Adams, the
younges; son, resided in that city until his
death, which occurred many years ago.
He was a bon UiUant and a man of plea
sure: Charles Adams left two daughters,
one of whom was married to Alex. B.
Johnson, of Utica, the other to a Mr.
Clark, of this State. The only daughter
ofJobn Adams was a highly accomplished
woman, as her published ~let.ors indi-
cate. Shs was the wife of Col. VIM.
Smith, of the Revolution, a distinguished
citizen of this State. Their daughter,
Mrs. De Nit, of FiskilI; inherits no small
share of he talents and virtues of her
parents. Charles Francis Adams, the only
living SOL of John Quincy Adams, and
inheritor of his estate of half a million,
married the daughter of the late Peter
Chardon Brooks, who left the largest
estate every accumulated New England;
of which, the share of Mr.. Adams. in
right of his wife, cannot be less than
another half million. He is, therefore,
one of the richest men in Massachusetts.
His talents are highly respectable; but in
consequence ofthe coldnnss of his man.
ner and his habitual reserve, he is by no
means popular. He is now engaged in
writing the life Of his grandfather and
in arranging his papers for publication
a work which will be of inestimable value
to all future historians Of this county,
When this great work is completed, it is
highly probable that Mr.. Adams will
give to the world the Life and Journals
of John Quincy Adams as an appropriate
pendant to the Life and Writings of John
Adams. The pnblic will then be put in
possession Of a complete and most Ella
borate history of the foreign and domestic
affairs Of this country, from the time OF
the Stamp Act up to the year lS4S, by
two of the most distinguished actors
therein, a period compromising the ante
revolutionary and revolutionary troubles
the days afchaos under the confederacy
the formation of the constitution-the
cabinet discussions in which Jefferson;
Hamilton, Pickering, Wolcott, and
Adams participated-the history of the
war of 1912, of the Hartford Convention;
and lastly, the annals of the Jackson