Amos Adams

• Born: September 1, 1728
• Birthplace: Medfield, MA
• Died: October 5, 1775

Clergyman Amos Adams is best known for his patriotic sermons. Having graduated from Harvard in 1752, Adams became pastor of a church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the following year, serving there until his death in 1775. He was secretary of the convention of ministers at Watertown, which in May, 1775, recommended the people to take up arms.

Among his better-known sermons where were published between 1756 and 1769 were two discourses on "Religious Liberty." Also notable were his two discourses on the general fast, April 6, 1769, in which he gave "A Concise Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils which Attended the Planting and Progressive Improvement in New England, with a Particular Account of its Long and Destructive Wars, Expensive Expeditions."

Most Famous Works

• Religious Liberty (1768)
• A Concise, Historical View of New England (1769)