Elihu Adams (May 29, 1741 – August 10, 1775) was a farmer and soldier in the Massachusetts Militia during the

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. He was born in Braintree to John Adams, Sr. and

Susanna Boylston Susanna Boylston Adams Hall (March 5, 1708 – April 17, 1797) was a prominent early-American socialite, mother of the second U.S. president, John Adams and the paternal grandmother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. Early life Sus ...

; his elder brothers were

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, the second

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, and Peter Boylston Adams, who also served as a militia captain during the Revolution. He married Thankful White in 1765, and had at least two children - Susanna, born in 1766,World Family Tree, Volume 1, Family #0626 and John, born in 1768. His home was formerly located on what is now South Franklin Street in Holbrook, then part of Old Braintree. Adams served as captain of the Braintree Company at the

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, and as a

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who fought on the Concord Green in 1775. He died of dysentery on August 10, 1775, at the age of 34, and was buried at what is today known as the "Old Section" of Union Cemetery in Holbrook.

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1741 births 1775 deaths People from Braintree, Massachusetts Adams political family Massachusetts militiamen in the American Revolution Deaths from dysentery Burials in Massachusetts People from Holbrook, Massachusetts {{US-poli-bio-stub