Samuel Adams

He was born September 27,1722 on Boston Massachussetts and he died on October 2, 1803 in Cambridge, Massachussetts. He was one of the leaders of the American Revolution. Adams was part of the movement opposed to the Brittish Parliament´s effort to tax the American Colonies without their approvement. 


To help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the Brittish Constitution at the expense of the colonies, in 1772 Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of  correspondence system, which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies.


After Parliament accepted the Intolerable Acts in 1774, Adams went the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Declaration of Independence in 1776.