Through Franklin Filippo met Thomas Adams of Virginia, another colonist living and doing business in London. “No relation to that other Adams family, the one from New England,” Adams said when Franklin introduced them at a salon one night. “While John and Samuel carry my surname they are no relation to me, yet they are making Adams a name that causes eyebrows to raise and certain doors to be closed to me.”
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