George Washington Adams was born in Berlin, the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia, on April 12, 1801.

She thought the decision "ill judged" and "wrong," adding that John Adams also seemed offended.

[6] Adams disappeared on April 30, 1829, while on board the steamship Benjamin Franklin in Long Island Sound during passage from Boston to Washington, D.C.

[8][9] An alcoholic,[10] Adams had left notes hinting that he intended to kill himself;[11] he had appeared to be delusional while on the ship, asking the captain to return to shore and declaring that the other passengers were conspiring against him.

[12] The consensus in news accounts of the time and among historians subsequently is that he died by suicide by drowning after he jumped from the Benjamin Franklin.

In 1828, John Adams II married Mary Hellen at a ceremony in the White House, and both his brothers refused to attend.