Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Adams, Benjamin

ADAMS, Benjamin, lawyer, b. in Worcester, Mass., in 1765; d. in Uxbridge, 28 March, 1837. He was graduated at Brown university in 1788, and became a lawyer ; was member of the legislature from 1809 to 1814, state senator in 1814-'15, and again in 1822-'25, and went to congress in 1816, where he remained until 1821.

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