Elizabeth Wells Adams was born on Wednesday, January 26, 1735 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Mary Elton and Francis Wells, who was a good friend of Samuel Adams and was an English merchant who came to Boston with his family in 1723. On Thursday, December 6, 1764, she married Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts. The couple had no children, but Elizabeth raised Samuel and Hannah as her own. She was quite attractive and helped him maintain a respectable image in Boston. She was a pleasant and hard-working woman who, through the 40 years of life that remained to Sam, supported him in every way. She turned out to be a good manager. While he nurtured the birth of Independence, he was quite careless about his home and the condition of his own children's clothes and shoes. After their home was destroyed through the war, Elizabeth was doing needlework and kitchen gardening to eke out the scant allowance she had to furnish a livelihood for herself and family. Yet there is no evidence that she complained or chided about it because of Sam's waste of time and talent working for other people without compensation and neglecting his own affairs and family. She and his children seemed to think that whatever he thought or whatever he did must be right. She died of unspecified causes on Friday, April 29, 1808 in her hometown, at the age of 73.
Elizabeth Wells Adams was born on Wednesday, January 26, 1735 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Mary Elton and Francis Wells, who was a good friend of Samuel Adams and was an English merchant who came to Boston with his family in 1723. On Thursday, December 6, 1764, she married Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts. The couple had no children, but Elizabeth raised Samuel and Hannah as her own. She was quite attractive and helped him maintain a respectable image in Boston. She was a pleasant and hard-working woman who, through the 40 years of life that remained to Sam, supported him in every way. She turned out to be a good manager. While he nurtured the birth of Independence, he was quite careless about his home and the condition of his own children's clothes and shoes. After their home was destroyed through the war, Elizabeth was doing needlework and kitchen gardening to eke out the scant allowance she had to furnish a livelihood for herself and family. Yet there is no evidence that she complained or chided about it because of Sam's waste of time and talent working for other people without compensation and neglecting his own affairs and family. She and his children seemed to think that whatever he thought or whatever he did must be right. She died of unspecified causes on Friday, April 29, 1808 in her hometown, at the age of 73.
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