John Adams HBO series and real history

[Carol]

Ali wrote:
> I think his mother's name was Susan or Elizabeth or something
> innocuous?  (Wikipedia tells me Susanna Boylston Adams.)  The only
> Hannah Adams I know of is this one:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Adams
> 
> It does appear that she has a connection to John Adams, but a
distant cousin is much farther apart than the daughter that Carol
referenced.

Carol responds:

Oops. I wasn't looking closely at the dates. The John Adams I'm
descended from is President John Adams' great-great-great grandfather!
Hannah would be President John Adams' third cousin twice removed or
some such thing. Sorry about that! My aunt told me that we were
descended from John Adams. She just didn't say *which* John Adams!

But (looking more closely at the paper with the list of names and
dates on it) I can tell you that President John Adams's mother was
Susanna Boylston, so your information is correct.

Your Hannah Adams is the wrong one, about three generations too young.
Odd, though, that the connection between the Clark family (my
great-grandmother was a Clark) appears with both Hannahs. (I won't
bore anyone with details)

Carol, who at least knows that her descent from Martha Carrier is
direct and that it's the right Martha Carrier, hexed cattle and all :-)