STREET, WHERE SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN SLAVES. DO YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE? >> WHICH FAMOUS AMERICAN WAS BORN ON ADAM STREET? JOHN F. KENNEDY, JOHN ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS OR D JOHN HANCOCK? THE ANSWER IS D. JOHN HANCOCK WAS BORN ON ADAMS STREET THOUGH IT IS NAMED FOR ANOTHER JOHN, JOHN ADAMS. ANTHONY EVERETT HAS MORE. ANTHONY: THIS STREET FAMOUSLY NAMED FOR JOHN ADAMS BEGINS WITH A NOD TO A DIFFERENT PATRIOT. JOHN HANCOCK. >> WE ARE ON THE SITE OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN HANCOCK, THE SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ANTHONY: HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE QUINCY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. HIS SAYS THE PARSONAGE WHERE JOHN HANCOCK WAS BORN BERT DOWN IN 1758 AND WAS BUILT IN QUINCY GRANITE. IT IS NOW THE HOME OF A HISTORICAL SITE -- SOCIETY IN QUINCY. >> -- IN THE 1870’S, EVERYTHING LOOKS REALLY GOOD. ANTHONY: THE ADAMS ESTATE IS JUST IF YOU BLOCKS UP THE ROAD. JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS MOVED TO PEACE FIELD OR THE OLD HOUSE AS SOME CALL IT IN 1788. >> THEY BOUGHT THE HOUSE WITHOUT SEEING IT FIRST. THEY’D BEEN LIVING IN PARIS AND LONDON AND HAD GOTTEN USED TO A CERTAIN SIZE OF RESIDENCE. ABIGAIL SEES THE RESIDENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND FALLS DOWN ON HER KNEES AND START SWEEPING BECAUSE SHE REALIZES THE HOUSE IS MUCH SMALLER THAN SHE HAD REMEMBERED IT BEING. >> SO THE FAMILY HAD IT THROUGH THE YEARS IN THE OLD HOUSES BECAME THE ONE THAT VISITORS SEE TODAY. NOW A HISTORICAL PARK. BOTH SITES SIT AT THE START OF ADAMS STREET BUT FITZGERALD SAYS WHEN THE STREET GOT ITS NAME WAS UNCLEAR. >> THE EARLIEST DIRECTORS WERE FROM THE CIVIL WAR AND A GENERATION OR TWO BEFORE THAT. IT IS BASED ON HIS NATIVE AMERICAN TRAIL THAT PREEXISTED EUROPEAN COLONIZATION. ANTHONY: NO SHORTAGE OF PROMINENT HISTORIC FIGURES CALLED ADAM STREET HOME. JOHN ADAMS AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, EVEN THE LATE PRESIDENT GEORGE H W BUSH BORN ON ADAMS STREET. AND A PROMINENT ROYALIST IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, HIS MILTON ESTATE IS WHERE HE RETREATED WHEN HIS BOSTON HOME WAS DESTROYED IN THE RIOTS. THERE WAS A GOVERNOR AT HUTCHINSON’S FIELD. ACROSS FROM THE FIELD IN MILTON SINCE THE FORBES HOUSE, A GREEK REVIVAL MANSION. THEY MESSED THEIR WEALTH THROUGH EARLY TRADE WITH CHINA. >> PEOPLE WILL GO THERE FOR YEARS AT A TIME AND THEY WANTED TO EARN THE COMPETENCE, ENOUGH MONEY THEY COULD COME BACK AND REQUIRE DUST RETIRE. -- RETIRE. ANTHONY: FOUR FAMILIES LIVED HERE. CAPTAIN BENNETT FORWARDS -- FORBES AND OTHERS ROCK ARTIFACTS FROM CHINA BACK TO THE HOME. ONE SMALL ITEM HAS A SIZABLE BACK STORY. >> WE HAVE A PORTRAIT OF THIS MAN. HE WAS ONE OF 13 MERCHANTS APPOINTED BY THE EMPEROR TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE FORBES FAMILY AND HE WAS THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. IN THE MID TO DUTCH MID 1800S HE WAS WORTH $26 MILLION. ANTHONY: IT IS AROUND $8 BILLION. >> HE GOT TO BE GOOD FRIENDS WITH THE FORBES BROTHERS. HE HAD SOMETHING ON HIS HAT THAT INDICATED HIS STATUS IN SOCIETY BELOW ROAD T. WE ARE ONLY ONE TO HAVE HIM. ANTHONY: AND HIS FAMILY LATER HAD A CABIN BUILT ON THE PROPERTY. >> THAT INCLUDED TILTING A LOG CABIN IN THE YARD WHERE SHE COULD OPEN THE CABIN AND TO SHARE HER COLLECTION WITH VISITORS. ANTHONY: THE PROPERTY BECAME THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICA CHINA TRADE IN 1964, EXHIBITING THE COLLECTION FROM THE CHINA TRADE AND FURNITURE AND PAINTINGS OF MARY FORBES’ BELOVED DOGS. >> I THINK THEY ARE UNDER APPRECIATED FAMILY. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THEIR STORY. SHAYNA: AND CAPTAIN ROBERT BENNETT FORBES WAS 13 WHEN HE TOOK HIS FIRST VOYAGE TO CHINA IN 1870. ANTHONY: HE IS THE ONLY CIVILIAN CAPTAIN TO COMMAND A U.S. NAVAL VESSEL. YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEAR