I have made a summary of all the known paternal lineages of the Founding Fathers. I wish I could find those of James Madison, John Jay and the Morris family (Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Morris, Richard Morris, etc.).
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Excellent work! It is safe to say John Quincy Adams (6th President) was also R1b-S1200, by the virtue of the fact he was the son of John Adams.
Yes, of course. I didn't include him as he is not usually considered a Founding Father. But he is mentioned in the Famous Y-DNA page.
Another Founding Father was Patrick Henry, who belonged to haplogroup R1b. According to the project guidelines page at the Henry DNA Project on FTDNA, 2 of his descendants (whose descent has been certified by genealogists at Red Hill, the Patrick Henry National Memorial) are in the project's group R1b-6.
Indeed, John Q. Adams was an impressive person. He was actually estimated to have the highest IQ of all the U.S. Presidents, in a psychology paper done in 2006. He was fluent in both Greek and Latin:
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcampbel/documents/SimontonPresIQ2006.pdf
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