Susanna Boylston
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Susanna Boylston | |
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| Born | March 5, 1708 |
| Died | April 21, 1797 (aged 89) Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | socialite |
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| Children | 3, including John Adams |
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Susanna Boylston Adams Hall (March 5, 1708 – April 21, 1797) was an early American socialite. She was also the mother of the second U.S. president, John Adams and the paternal grandmother of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams.
Susanna was born in Brookline, Province of Massachusetts Bay, on March 5, 1708. Her parents were Peter Boylston (c. 1673–1743) and Anne (née White) Boylston (1685–1772).[1] Her paternal grandparents were Dr. Thomas Boylston and Mary (née Gardner) Boylston,[2][3][4] and her maternal grandparents were Benjamin White and Susanna (née Cogswell) White.[5]
The Boylstons were one of the most respectable families in New England and among her relatives was cousin Ward Nicholas Boylston, a benefactor of Harvard College, and uncle Zabdiel Boylston, the celebrated physician who performed the first surgical operation by an American physician and was known for inoculating hundreds of people in Boston during a severe smallpox outbreak.[6] Cousin Mary Boylston was mother of Mary Hallowell, wife of Chief Justice of Upper Canada John Elmsley.
