Excerpt from The Story of John Adams: A New England Schoolmaster President, John Adams Henry Adams was the great-great-great-grandfather of my humble self, John Adams. From Henry Adams's son Joseph descended the line of the Presidents from an older brother Peter, that in which our interest for the present centers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.