He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1788, where he studied law, receiving his A.M. degree in course.

The house is located at 85 North Main Street, near the "Uxbridge Common Historic District."

Benjamin Adams is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery,[1] next to the historic Capron Mill in downtown Uxbridge.

Another elected Congressman is buried there, Phineas Bruce, as well as a Medal of Honor recipient from this town, Corporal Edward Sullivan.

Benjamin Adams would have seen the early history and successes of the adjacent Capron Mill, and the beginnings of American industrialization which occurred there.