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Direct Generations to Leah Adams
| Generation #1: | Richard Adams & Agnes Stone |
| Generation #2: | Henry Adams & Edith Squire |
| Generation #3: | Thomas Adams & Mary Blackmore |
| Generation #4: | Jonathan Adams & Leah Gould |
| Generation #5: | David Adams & Dorcas Paine |
| Generation #6: | Isaiah Cain & Leah Adams |
LEAH (ADAMS) CAIN - 3rd cousin of President John Adams and 3rd cousin (1st removed) of President John Quincy Adams.
Direct Generations to President John Quincy Adams
| Generation #1: | Richard Adams & Agnes Stone |
| Generation #2: | Henry Adams & Edith Squire |
| Generation #3: | Joseph Adams Sr. & Abigail Baxter |
| Generation #4: | Joseph Adams Jr. & Hannah Bass |
| Generation #5: | John Adams & Susanna Boylston |
| Generation #6: | John Adams (US President) & Abigail Adams |
| Generation #7: | John Quincy Adams (US President) & Louisa C. Johnson |
Richard Adams & Agnes Stone
Richard Adams - Born: May 1552, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 19 March 1605 in Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Father: Henry Adams, Mother: Rose _____
Married #1: Margaret Armager
Married #2: (Alice) Agnes Stone, 01 February 1576, Townstall, Somersetshire, England, Agnes Born: 01 January 1556, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 15 January 1616, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Father: John Stone, Mother: Agnes Barton
Children:
1. John Adams - Born: 01 January 1577, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: Before 1609, Married #1: Eleanor Warden, Married #2: _____ Adams, 1597, England 2. Judith Lucy Adams - Born: 1579, Barton, St David, Somerset, England, Died: Barton, St David, Somerset, England, Married: Richard French, about 1605 3. Margaret Adams - Born: 1581, Barton, St David, Somerset, England, Died: Barton, St David, Somerset, England, Married: Roger Warfield, 1599, England 4. Thomas Adams - Born: 1582, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: Barton, St. David, Somerset, England 5. Robert Adams - Born: 1582?, Devonshire, England, Married: Elizabeth Sharlon, Devonshire, England 6. Henry Adams - Born: 21 January 1583, Barton, St. David, Somersetshire, England, Christened: 21 January 1583, Died: 08 August 1646, Braintree (now Quincy), Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Edith Squire, 19 October 1609, Charlton Mackrel, Somersetshire, England, Edith Born: 29 May 1587, England, Christened: 29 May 1587, Charlton Mackrel, Somersetshire, England, Died: 08 October 1646, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Henry Squire, Mother: Charlotte MacKrell Other Sources List Henry's Death Date as: 08 October 1646 Other Sources List Edith's Death Date as: 21 January 1673, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Henry Adams & Edith Squire
Henry Adams - Born: 21 January 1583, England, Christened: 21 January 1583, Died: 08 August 1646, Braintree (now Quincy), Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Richard Adams, Mother: Agnes Stone
Married: Edith Rosamund Squire, 1609, Charlton Mackrel, Somersetshire, England, Edith Born: 29 May 1587, England, Christened: 29 May 1587, Charlton Mackrel, Somersetshire, England, Died: 08 October 1646, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Henry Squire, Mother: Charlotte MacKrell
Henry Adams of Braintree - Henry Adams of Braintree, called thus because he was one of the earliest or first settlers in that part of the Massachusetts Bay designated "Mt. Wollaston," which was incorporated in 1640 as the town of Braintree. It included what is now Quincy, Braintree and Randolph, Massachusetts
Henry and Family arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1632 / 1633. The colonial authorities at Boston allotted to him 40 acres of land at "the Mount," 24 February 1639-40. More About Henry Adams
Children:
1. Henry Adams (Lieutenant) - Born: January 1610, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Christened: 1610, England, Died: 21 February 1676, Sherborn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Sherborn Cemetery, Married: Elizabeth Paine, 17 November 1643, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 2. Thomas Adams - Born: 25 March 1612, Barton St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 20 July 1688, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Chelmsford Cemetery, Married: Mary Blackmore, March 1642, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Mary Born: 1612, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 23 March 1694, Massachusetts, USA 3. Jonathan Adams - Born: 1614, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 28 July 1690 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Braintree Cemetery, Married #1: Joanne Close, 07 February 1639, Boltonsborough, Somersetshire, England, Married #2: Elizabeth (Fussell) Holman, Medfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1665/1666 4. Samuel Henry Adams - Born: 1617, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 24 January 1688, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Charlestown Cemetery, Married #1: Rebecca Graves, 01 January 1636, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, Married #2: Esther Sparhawk, 07 May 1668, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Married #3: UNKNOWN 5. Ursula Adams - Born: 19 July 1619, Barton St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 20 February 1679, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA, Married #1: Stephen Streeter, 05 October 1640, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA, Stephen Born: About 1600, Died: 10 June 1652, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, Married #2: Samuel Hosier, 13 October 1657, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA, Married #3: William Robinson, 21 August 1666 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, William Born: 1615, England, Died: 06 July 1668, Dorchester, Mother: Agnes Street, Married #4: Griffin Craft, 15 July 1673, Charlestown, Connecticut 6. Peter Adams - Born: 01 March 1621, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 23 October 1690, Medfield, Massachusetts, USA, Married #1: Rachel Adams, about 1650, Married #2: Elizabeth Sparhawk, 07 May 1668 7. John Adams - Born: 09 February 1622, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 06 December 1694, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Braintree Cemetery, Married #1: Anne Howe, 1660, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Married #2: Rachel Newcomb 8. Jane Adams - Born: 1624, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 15 December 1654, Medfield, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Nicholas Rockwood 9. Mary Adams - Born: 1625, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 11 August 1711, Mendon, Massachusetts, USA, Married: George Fairbanks, 26 August 1646, Dedham, Massachusetts, USA 10. Joseph G. Adams - Born: 09 February 1626, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 06 December 1694, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Abigail Baxter, 26 November 1650, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Abigail Born: 28 March 1634, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 27 August 1672, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Braintree Cemetery, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Gregory Baxter, Mother: Margaret Paddy Joseph was a malster by trade; was made a freeman in 1653; and held office of selectman in 1673. 11. Edward Adams - Born: 19 April 1629, Kings Weston, Somerset, England, Died: 12 November 1716, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Married #1: Lydia Rockwood, 1652, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Married #2: Abigail (Craft or Day), 07 December 1678, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Married #3: Sarah Taylor, 06 January 1709/1710, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas Adams & Mary Blackmore
Thomas Adams (Lieutenant) - Born: 25 March 1612, Barton St. David, Somerset, England, Occupations: Ensign, 1678, Lieutenant, 1682, Town Clerk, Died: 20 July 1688, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Buried: (possibly), Forefather's Cemetery, Chelmsford Center, USA, Father: Henry Adams, Mother: Edith Squire
Married: Mary Blackmore, March 1642, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Mary Born: 1612, Barton, St. David, Somerset, England, Died: 23 March 1694, Massachusetts, USA
Source of Marriage Date Above: Andrew Adams, Author of "Henry Adams of Braintree."
Other Sources List Marriage Date as: Thomas Adams & Marie Blackmore, 28 April 1680, Charlestown Co., Suffolk, USA - Film # 0740994-0740995, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Children:
1. Mary Adams - Born: 24 July 1643, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 24 July 1643, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA 2. TWIN Pelatiah Adams - Born: 06 March 1646, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 29 April 1729, USA, Married: Ruth Parker, About 1670, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Ruth Born: 1655 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 18 September 1719, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Jacob Parker, Mother: Sarah _____ 3. TWIN Jonathan Adams - Born: 06 March 1646, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 25 November 1712, Chelmsford, USA, Married: Leah Gould, 29 August 1681, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Leah Born: 04 May 1663, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 1718, USA, Father: Francis Gould, Mother: Rose _____ 4. Timothy Adams - Born: 1648, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 01 July 1708, USA, Married: Mary _____ 5. George Adams - Born: 29 May or March 1650, Concord, Massachusetts, USA 6. Samuel Adams - Born: 01 February 1656, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 November 1727, USA, Married: Mary _____ 7. Rebecca Adams - Born: 18 September 1657, Concord, Massachusetts, USA 8. Elizabeth Adams - Born: 21 October 1658, Concord, Massachusetts, USA 9. Thomas Adams - Born: 22 July 1660, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 20 November 1660, USA 10. Mary Adams - Born: 29 October 1664, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Married: _____ Cooper 11. Edith Adams - Born: 21 February 1655, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Jonathan Adams & Leah Gould
Jonathan Adams - Born: 06 March 1646, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Occupation: Farmer, Littleton Massachusetts, Died: 25 November 1712, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Thomas Adams, Mother: Mary Blackmore
Married: Leah Gould, 29 August 1681, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Leah Born: 04 May 1663, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 1718, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Francis Gould, Mother: Rose _____
Sources List Leah as a TWIN
Children:
1. Edith Gould Adams - Born: 01 December 1683, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 November 1776, Married: Jacob Power(s), 1705, USA, Jacob Born: 15 December 1679, Concord Village (Littleton after 1715), Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Walter Power(s), Mother: Trial Sheppard Edith was the 3rd wife of Jacob. They had at least 4 children. Other Sources List Edith's Birth as: 12 January 1683 Jacob located his farm in Littleton on the south side of Harvard 2. Mary Adams - Born: 25 September 1685, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: Young 3. Mary Adams II - Born: 13 May 1687, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 1718, USA, Married: William Haggett 13 May 1707, William Born: 1682, Andover, Massachusetts, USA 4. Margaret Adams - Born: 24 June 1688, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA 5. Leah Adams - Born: 02 April 1691, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 1721 or 1758, Charlestown, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Thomas Robbins, 06 August 1713, Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Thomas Born: 26 or 27 October 1687, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 06 May 1768, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Father: George Robbins, Mother: Mary Barrett Other Sources List Thomas's Parents as: Robert Robbins & Mary Maxwell 6. Abigail Adams - Born: 09 November 1693, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA 7. Jonathan Adams - Born: 28 March 1695/1696, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA 8. David Adams - Born: 29 March 1699, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745 or 1759, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Jonathan Adams, Mother: Leah Gould, Married: Dorcas Paine, 27 August 1723, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Dorcas Born: 24 February 1700, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Elisha Paine, Mother: Rebecca Doane 9. Elizabeth Adams - Born: 1701, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA 10. Rachel Adams - Born: 1702, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 02 November 1769, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Isaac Hildreth, 01 March 1724, Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, Isaac Born: 01 August 1698, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Isaac Hildreth, Mother: Elizabeth Wilson 11. Edward Adams - Born: 1703, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA
Road near to the town line and adjoining that of Jonathan Adams, He held some of the minor town offices, and although he was not mentioned as having a pew place, we can preseume from the time Rev. Benjamin Shattuck was settled April 1717, at "50 pounds in money, to be advanced at 20 pounds per year until it reached 50 pounds," he did get is pew place in the meeting house at
Littleton. Jacob was of the second generation and is the direct
line leading to the Powers families in Michigan and Iowa.
David Adams & Dorcas Paine
David Adams - Born: 29 March 1699, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745 or 1759, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Jonathan Adams, Mother: Leah Gould
Married: Dorcas Paine, 27 August 1723, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Dorcas Born: 24 February 1700, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Elisha Paine, Mother: Rebecca Doane
Children:
1. Jonathan Adams - Born: 24 May 1724, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 08 June 1757, USA, Married: Desire Ashcraft, 27 December 1745, USA, Died: 19 May 1753, USA 2. Constance Adams - Born: 17 April 1726, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: Robert Reynolds 3. Levi Adams - Born: Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Baptized: 18 November 1728, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 1816, Hardwick, Otsego Co., NY, USA, Married: Margaret Perkins, 26 December 1751, Lisbon, Connecticut, USA, Margaret Born: July 1729, Lisbon, Connecticut, USA, Died: 23 June 1827, Hartford, Washington Co., NY, USA Levi was a Revolutionary Soldier, and was at New London, Connecticut at the capture of Fort Griswold by the British. He and his three sons escaped, but two Adams brothers were murdered there. 4. Dr. Abel Adams - Born: 05 January 1729, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Occupation: Physician, Died: 16 April 1791, New Marlborough, NY, USA, Married: Deborah Young, 1770, Deborah Born: 1727 "Dr. ABEL ADAMS, son of David and Dorcas Paine Adams, was born in Canterbury, Conn. on January 5, 1729/30. Later residences are thought to be Canaan or Salisbury, Conn. and Dutchess County, NY, where he died in 1791. He was a Quaker, and physician of prominence in Dutchess County. He married twice and had thirteen children. 5. Elisha Adams - Born: 05 July 1733, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 15 August 1823, Pittsford, VT, USA, Married: Sarrah Taylor, Coventry, Connecticut, USA Family moved to Pittsford, VT, USA soon after the revolution. Other Sources lists Elisha as marrying a Margaret _____ 6. Dorcas Adams - Born: 05 June 1735, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA 7. Leah Adams - Born: 18 August 1738, Canterbury, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA, Baptized: 20 August 1738, Canterbury First Congregational Church, Connecticut, USA, Died: 1806, Caintown, Ontario, Canada, Buried: Caintown Cemetery, Married: Isaiah Cain, 1762, Canterbury, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA, Isaiah Born: 1737, NY, USA, Residence: Caintown, Ontario, Canada, Concession III Lot 15, Died: 1812, Caintown, Ontario, Canada 8. Rebecca Adams - Born: 06 August 1742, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
This Abel Adams is of the same generation and cousin to President John Adams and Revolutionary Patriot Samuel Adams."
Joseph Adams Sr. & Abigail Baxter
Joseph G. Adams - Born: 09 February 1626, Kingweston, Somerset, England, Died: 06 December 1694, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Henry Adams, Mother: Edith Squire
Married: Abigail Baxter, 02 or 26 November 1650, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Abigail Born: 28 March 1634, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 27 August 1672, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Braintree Cemetery, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Gregory Baxter, Mother: Margaret Paddy
Joseph was a malster by trade; was made a freeman in 1653; and held office of selectman in 1673.
Children:
1. Hannah Adams - Born: 12 November 1652, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 15 September 1726, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Samuel Saville, 10 April 1673, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Samuel Born: 30 August 1643, Braintree, Norfolk Co.,Massachusetts, USA, Died: 15 September 1726, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 2. Joseph Adams Jr. - Born: 24 December 1654, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 12 February 1736/1737, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Hannah Bass, 02 February 1688, Massachusetts Colony, USA, Hannah Born: 22 June 1667, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 24 October 1705, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 3. John Adams - Born: 24 December 1654, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 27 December 1685, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Hannah Webb, About 1684, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Hannah Born: 05 September 1665, Billerica, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 17 April 1694, USA 4. Abigail Adams - Born: 27 February 1658, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 October 1696, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: John Bass, 1687, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, John Born: 26 November 1658, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 30 September 1734, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Father: John Bass, Mother: Ruth Alden 5. Bethia Adams - Born: 20 December 1661, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 06 October 1689, USA 6. Samuel Adams - Born: 03 September 1665, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 02 October 1714, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA 7. Mary Adams - Born: 25 February 1666/1667, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 9 March 1705/1706, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Samuel Bass, Before 18 July 1694, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Samuel Born: 25 March 1660, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 20 February 1750/1751, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA, Father: John Bass, Mother: Ruth Alden 8. Peter Adams - Born: 07 February 1669, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Occupations: Deacon & Captain, Died: 12 April 1747, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA,12 November 1652, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Mary Webb, 12 February 1695, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Mary Born: 30 June 1659, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, Died: 03 November 1739, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Richard Webb, Mother: Mary Hollyday 9. Jonathan Adams - Born: 31 January 1672, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 10. Mehitable Adams - Born: 1673, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 02 October 1713, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Thomas White, 21 July 1697, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Thomas Born: 02 June 1675, Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 10 April 1765, Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA,
Joseph Adams Jr. & Hannah Bass
Joseph Adams Jr. - Born: 24 December 1654, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 12 February 1736/1737, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Joseph Adams Sr., Mother: Abigail Baxter
Married: Hannah Bass, 02 or 08 February 1688, Massachusetts Colony, USA, Hannah Born: 22 June 1667, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 24 October 1705, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: (Capt.) John Bass, Mother: Ruth Alden
Children:
1. Joseph Adams III - Born: 04 January 1689, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 May 1783, New Hampshire, USA 2. John Adams - Born: 08 February 1690/91, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Occupation: Farmer, Died: 25 May 1761, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Susannah Boylston, 31 October or 23 November 1734, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, Susannah Born: 05 March 1708/1709, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 17 April 1797, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Peter Boylston, Mother: Ann White 3. Samuel Adams - Born: 28 January 1693, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 17 July 1751, USA 4. Josiah Adams - Born: 08 February 1695, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 5. Hannah Adams - Born: 21 February 1697, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: William King, 03 February 1770, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, William Born: 29 September 1695, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, Died: 08 January 1774, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, Father: James King, Mother: Elizabeth Fuller 6. Ruth Adams - Born: 21 March 1699, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 August 1761, USA 7. Bethia Adams - Born: 13 June 1702, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA 8. Ebenezer Adams - Born: 30 December 1704, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 06 August 1769, USA, Married: Anna Boylston, 07 March 1729, Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA, Anna Born: 1710, Brookline, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, USA
More About Henry Adams
This stone and several others have been placed in their yard by a great-grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, sympathy, prudence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry, and perseverance of his ancestors, in hope of recommending an emulation of their virtues to their posterity." (2)
"Henry Adams, the progenitor in New England of a distinguished American family," ... "Neither from sceptred race of kings nor noble lineage of baronial castle was derived this Adams family in England. They were a race of sturdy yeomen who lived for generations in Barton St. David and its vicinity, subsisting by cultivation of lease hold farms and the raising of sheep and cattle, and residing in simple, stone, thatched cottages.".... After his marriage to Edith Squire in 1609, "...his residence continued for several years in his native ancestral parish of Barton St. David,"... "before 1622, he moved into the adjoining parish of Kingweston, Co. Somerset" ... "he probably continued in Kingweston until his emigration with his family to New England in 1638. He followed the ancestral occupation of farming and also was a maltster." ... ", in 1638 Henry Adams with his wife and all his children (except his son Jonathan Adams) emigrated to New England." ... "The earliest mention of Henry Adams that has been found in New England is on 24 Feb. 1639/40 when he was granted by the town of Boston a lot of forty acres at Mount Wollaston (Braintree, now Quincy) for a family of ten heads, conditional on payment of a charge of 3s. per acre." ... "Henry Adams at once settled at Mount Wollaston which on 13 May 1640 was incorporated as the town of Braintree. His residence was located in that part of town which in 1792 became Quincy, Mass." (2)
(1) A genealogical history of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass.,
(2) Whittemore, Early Settlers
(3) Savage, Dict of First Settlers
FROM: Cutter: The pedigree of this family traces the ancestry, according to one account to Ap Adams, father of John or Lord Ap Adam, who was called to parliament by Edward I., and Baron of the realm from 1296 to 1307, states that he came out of the Marche of Wales into Devonshire.
The "Ap Adams" story is one of the most embarrassing nineteenth-century forgeries. It first appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7 (Jan. 1853), claiming descent from a landed Adams family at Stoke-Gabriel, co. Devon. Because it claims grand ancestry people have happily quoted it and copied it as gospel ("hey, it's in print, it has to be right"). The Ap Adams fiction was DISPROVED in print as long ago as 1927 when Josiah Gardner Bartlett published the known, documented English origins of Henry Adams, a yeoman farmer from Barton [St.] David (just south of Wells) and next-door Kingweston, Somerset, who married on 19 Oct. 1609 married Edith Squire, from neighboring Charlton Mackrell, Somerset. See Bartlett's book ("Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants" [New York, 1927]), also "Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Sullivan County, New York, Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania and Vermilion, Ohio" by Enid Eleanor Adams (1974), p. 652, from which I quote:
"In 1853...an Adams pedigree purporting to show that Henry Adams, English emigrant to New England, was a descendant of one Sir John ap Adams and his wife Elizabeth de Gurnay, heiress to estates in Somersetshire, Dorsetshire and Gloucestershire, was published and has been reprinted and quoted from frequently ever since. J. Gardner Bartlett, in his 1927 history of Henry Adams, stated unequivocally that the alleged connection of Henry Adams with the Ap Adam family of Beverstone and Tidenham rested on forged evidences. In proof [the Ap Adam chart from The Complete Peerage, vol. 1 (1910), pp. 179-81] was given in the Bartlett book. It shows conclusively that the Adams line issuing from Elizabeth de Gurnay ended by an heiress in 1424, 159 YEARS PRIOR TO Henry Adams's birth! [The last male Ap Adams died in 1424, with his nephew John Huntley appar. sole heir.] Moreover, although Sir John Ap Adams acquired vast estates in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, he never had the manor of Cherleton-Adam."
Mr. Bartlett's book (1927) has numerous photographs of the Saxon church at Barton [St.] David, bonds and other documents signed by, or associated with, the real Henry Adams, his wife, and their ancestors. Miss Adams's treatment (1974) of Henry and his English background is also excellent.
http://www.hannahdustin.com/short_adams.html
"Emigrated to New England states in 1638(some say 1640),but according to the book,American Presidential Families, it was 1638. He was called "Gentleman Henry Adams". Occupation: farmer, maltster.
He was buried 8 October 1646, leaving by tradition eight sons yet only five are named in his will, 1646, proved 8 June 1647, where appear Peter, John, Joseph, Edward, Samuel, and daughter Ursula. The inscription on the monument erected by his descendant, John Adams, second President of memor.
"Of Henry Adams who took his flight from the Dragon persecution, in Devonshire, England and alighted with eight sons, near Mt. Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England and, after taking some time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield, and the neighboring towns, two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here; who was an original proprietor in the township of Braintree incorporated 1639."
