20 Facts About Hannah Adams

Hannah Adams was an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history.

Hannah Adams was born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Brookline.

Hannah Adams was the second of five children born to Thomas Adams and Elizabeth Clark.

Hannah Adams's father, educated at Harvard College, kept a small country store, dealing among other things in books.

Hannah Adams boarded some students of divinity, from whom Adams learned Greek and Latin, which she subsequently taught.

Hannah Adams started an autobiography, which was published after her death by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee.

Hannah Adams belonged to a family which for generations had held important trusts in her native town.

In 1750, he married Elizabeth Clark, who died when Hannah Adams was 11 years of age, leaving five children.

Hannah Adams was enthusiastic over poetry, committing much of the works of her favorite poets, Milton, Thomson, and Young, and others.

Hannah Adams turned to sewing, knitting and spinning, finding the most profit in weaving bobbin lace.

Hannah Adams's father had found solace in books through his ill fortunes, and was happiest when making trips to the Harvard College Library.

Hannah Adams's writings brought her little money, yet they secured her fame and many friends, first among them the Abbe Gregoire, with whom she carried on an extensive correspondence.

Hannah Adams's autobiography, edited with additions by Lee, was published in Boston in 1832.

Hannah Adams's mind had been turned to the subject by reading a manuscript from Broughton's Dictionary giving an account of some of the most common of the sects.

Hannah Adams's father was an enthusiastic seller of the book, traveling about the country on horseback with saddlebags filled with the volumes.

Hannah Adams found a friend and helper in Mr Buckminster, minister, of the Brattle Street Church, another of the Anthology Club group, who gave her the freedom of his study and library.

President John Hannah Adams, too, gave her the use of his library, then in his home in Quincy.

Hannah Adams entertained the friends who gathered in her little parlor with recitations of her poetry which she learned in girlhood.

Hannah Adams was a popular guest in New England society, and once stayed for two weeks at the house of her distant cousin, President John Hannah Adams.

Hannah Adams's remains were interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 12,1832.