Independence Day
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.
It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
It ought to be solemnized with pomp, and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, tend illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, for ever more.
John Adams
John Adams was born in Braintree, or Quincy, Massachusetts, October 30, 1735
Was a member of the Committee that framed the Declaration of Independence; and he signed the Declaration
Was Commissioner to France, 1778
Was Ambassador to England, 1785
Became Second President of the United States, 1796
He died on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth of July, 1826