[2] Advertisements from Boston suggest that Adams Sr. owned and sold at least one "Carolina Indian" slave in 1716.
[3] In 1740, he helped create a Land Bank, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, using paper money to promote commerce, with a scarcity of gold and silver coins.
In July 1741, the House of Commons passed a bill destroying the land bank, by making shareholders liable for the bank's debts.
Three survived into adulthood, including Samuel Adams.
In the marriage of Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Fifield, twelve children were born, three of whom survived: