John Adams, the second President, rests side by side with his son, John
Quincy Adams, under the First Congregational Church, where they worshiped
in their native town of Braintree, Massachusetts, now called Quincy. The
tomb is in the front part of the cellar, under the porch. It is fourteen
feet square, and is made of large blocks of granite, slightly faced. The
door is formed by a granite slab, seven feet by three.
The bodies of the two Presidents and their wives are enclosed in leaden
caskets and are placed in stone coffins, each hewn from a single piece of
marble. In the church, on the right side of the pulpit, as seen from the
pews, is a memorial tablet surmounted by a life-sized bust of John Adams.
Below the bust is a Latin line:
Libertatem, Amicitiam, Fidem, Retinebis.
Above the tablet are the words: