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John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 to John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams ( née Smith ) in Braintree, Massachusetts, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.

John Quincy Adams Birthplace is now part of Adams National Historical Park and open to the public.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

The name Quincy has subsequently been used for at least nineteen other places in the United States.

Those places were either directly or indirectly named for John Quincy Adams ( for example, Quincy, Illinois was named in honor of Abrams while Quincy, California was named for Quincy, Illinois ).

The Quincy family name was pronounced, as is the name of the city in Massachusetts where Adams was born.

However, all of the other place names are locally.

Though technically incorrect, this pronunciation is also commonly used for Adams ' middle name.

Adams first learned of the Declaration of Independence from the letters his father wrote his mother from the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

In 1779, Adams began a diary that he kept until just before he died in 1848.

The massive fifty volumes are one of the most extensive collections of first-hand information from the period of the early republic and are widely cited by modern historians.