A Father Of Our Country: Samuel Adams A Sermon On His Last Year As Governor 1795

Fobes, Peres (1742-1812): A Sermon, Preached Before His Excellency Samuel Adams, Esq. Governour, His Honour Moses Gill, Esq. Lt. Governour, The Honourable The Council, Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 27th, 1795: Being the Day of General Election. By Peres Fobes, L.L.D. Pastor of Church in Raynham. Dente Theonino cum circuroditur, ecquid Ad te Poss Paule ventura percula Sentis? - HOR. Boston: Printed at the Mercury Press, by Young and Minns. 1795 [3], B4-G4, F1, [1 blank]. Disbound with toning but otherwise nice item. Signed in period ink on the front cover ‘Sheffield’. This was Governor Samuel Adam’s last term as he retired from office, permanently in 1796.

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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.] He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.
In 1789, Adams was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and served in that office until Governor Hancock's death in 1793, when he became acting governor. The next year, Adams was elected as governor in his own right, the first of four annual terms.
He was generally regarded as the leader of his state's Jeffersonian Republicans, who were opposed to the Federalist Party. Unlike some other Republicans, Adams supported the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 for the same reasons that he had opposed Shays's Rebellion.
Like his fellow Republicans, he spoke out against the Jay Treaty in 1796, a position that drew criticism in a state that was increasingly Federalist. In that year's U. S. presidential election, Republicans in Virginia cast 15 electoral votes for Adams to make him Jefferson's vice-president, but Federalist John Adams won the election, with Jefferson becoming vice-president. The Adams cousins remained friends, but Samuel was pleased when Jefferson defeated John Adams in the 1800 presidential election.
Samuel Adams took a cue from President Washington, who declined to run for reelection in 1796: he retired from politics at the end of his term as governor in 1797. Adams suffered from what is now believed to have been an essential tremor, a movement disorder that rendered him unable to write in the final decade of his life. He died at the age of 81 on October 2, 1803, and was interred at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Boston's Republican newspaper the Independent Chronicle eulogized him as the "Father of the American Revolution".

Notes: See images and description. Some toning and spotting, resewn and holes with some small loss of letters but infrequent, stains, period notation, Disbound

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