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• m. Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775-1852), at London, England. She is the daughter of Hon. Joshua Johnson and Catherine Nuth, of Frederick County MD.
• John Quincy and Louisa Catherine had 4 children:
  • George Washington Adams; b. Apr. 13, 1801, Berlin, Prussia; d. Apr. 30, 1829; never married.
  • John Adams; b. July 4, 1803, Boston MA; d. Oct. 23, 1834, Wash. DC., at the age of 20.
  • Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886).
    • m. Abigail Brown Brooks (1808-1889).
  • Louisa Catherine Adams; b. 1811, St. Petersburg, Russia; d. in infancy.

Brief Biography:

He became the U.S. Minister to Holland, Portugal and Prussia; was elected to the MA state senate, 1802; and U.S. Senator from MA, 1803-1808. He was the U.S. Minister to Russia, 1809-1814; Chairman of the U.S. Commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent, which closed the War of 1812; Minister to England, 1815-1817; Secretary of State under President Monroe, 1817-1825; and 6th President of the U.S., 1825-1829.

John Quicy Adams served as a member of Congress from MA, 1831-1848, and died of apoplexy on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington DC on Feb. 23, 1848. He received honorary degrees from Harvard and Princeton, and was an Overseer of Harvard College, 1830-1848. There are many on-line references to President John Quincy Adams, for example:

• The White House page for Pres. John Quincy Adams.
• Wikipedia entry for John Quincy Adams (1767-1848).

References:

• Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass., compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams, privately printed, New York, 1927.
• Dorset Pilgrims, by Frank Thistlethwaite, pub. by Heart of the Lakes, Interlaken NY, 1993.

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