Abigail took her son to the top of Penn's Hill, near their farm, and they watched the fires of Charlestown and heard the cannons roar from the Battle of Bunker Hill. On Jthey were told a major battle was underway in Boston. Abigail and her son were eager to learn more about the progress of the war in order to inform John Adams in Philadelphia of the events that were transpiring in the Boston area. News quickly spread to the Adams farm in Braintree of the battles fought between the American Colonists and the British in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. To excel, they must be taught to be steady, active and industrious." John Quincy's parents succeeded in their objective, for not soon after, the young Adams wrote that he was working hard on his studies and hoped "to grow a better boy." War soon forced young John to mature at even a more accelerated rate. John wrote: "Let us teach them not only to do virtuously, but to excel. From Philadelphia John wrote to Abigail of the Congress' activities and of their duties, as parents, to educate a new generation of Americans. In 1775 a second Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia to continue to debate the issue of independence. There, representatives from the American Colonies met to discuss their opposition to England's Colonial Government. When John Quincy Adams was seven years old, his father traveled to New York to participate in the First Continental Congress. Through the example of his father and mother the child learned the sacrifices that individuals need to make to preserve and protect the welfare of society. Abigail gave birth to her son two days before her prominent grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, died so the boy was named John Quincy Adams in his honor. Born on Jin Braintree, Massachusetts, he was the son of two fervent revolutionary patriots, John and Abigail Adams, whose ancestors had lived in New England for five generations. No American who ever entered the presidency was better prepared to fill that office than John Quincy Adams.
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