Who is John Adams from Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America and what is their importance?

John Adams comes up in direct connection with "order ways" of Massachusetts. The context in which he is mentioned is when he describes two distinct types of "mobs" in a discussion of "mob violence." He refers to "public" and "private" mobs. A public mob is a political assemblage that is also impassioned and may be violent. Normally, they are an agitated version of a reasonable public dispute regarding a law or a case that is presently before the law. In contrast, a private mob is aggrieved due to a personal injustice. The example given is when an angry mob of fishermen's wives literally tear to pieces a pair of natives in sorrowful revenge upon the tribe for having killed several of these women's husbands.