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on the corner of Winter street and Winter place, is marked by a bronze tablet containing the following inscription : —

ON THIS SITE ONCE STOOD THE

HOME OF SAMUEL ADAMS,

WHO BOUGHT IT IN MAY, 1 784, AND DIED IN IT, OCTOBER 2, 1803.

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE

FATHER OF THE REVOLUTION,

■ THIS TABLET IS PLACED BY THE

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION,

1893. ( Sbal op the ) \ Society J

For, on his mother's side, the poet was the great-grand- son of Samuel Adams. To the kindness of Frank Willing Leach, Esq., of Philadelphia, who has for several years been engaged on a work to be entitled, "The Signers of the Declaration of Independence : their Ancestors and De- scendants," I am indebted for the following genealogical data : —

��Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, born in Boston, September 16 (old style), 1722; died in Boston, October 2, 1803 ; married as his first wife, October 17, 1749, Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rolfe) Checkley. She was born in Boston, March 15, 1725, and died in Boston, July 25, 1757. Their issue (all were born and died in Boston) : — I. Samuel, born September 14, 1750, died October 2, 1750.

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