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, wife of Robert Brooke, but without ecial gift to the churches of Milton most probably identified with Milton lies a few miles north of Milton. rself originated in that area though es found in wills, "where I was born.' ' from her children and grandchildren, lationship to the testatrix is sta-Wood. Though it is possible that
nlikely. Then come three persons Thomas Myles, Draper, £10; Francis Christian Wesby £5. It may be ~therine and the l~estbys a nephew les. There was a connection with Jane (Brooke) Foote, married for f a Benjamin Miles, and a descen-Edward Goddard (see TAG 53:202)
>hands of this Elizabeth were ~re was a relationship, it was but it is probable that· Thomas
1jamin Miles the second husband, 1.
)f Edward Westby of Milton, dated l-1-1541) who had daughters Alice, wife Johan, and brother John
: and also for ffraunces Myles and :e e Christian Westby was the !n perhaps the testator had a son ! Joan may be the only daughter :s, Thomas and Elizabeth Snelling .49-1538/9), and she may have been !ward West by . . s certainly probable that Katherine •n-Iwade area of Kent, was rela_les and Westby, perhaps even to
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1816) and wife }~rgaret (ca. 1736-ow Harmony Twp, Warren Co.), NJ. h and that her maiden name was they related to the John Barber amily? ?) and wife Janet resided during Warren) Co.NJ; by 1784 in Woodrecorded 1809. Janet is alleged to rrto Faurot, Depue, Barber, Hobart, ies, all of NJ or NY. Wish docu-ther Stivers families in NY, NJ. idge, NJ 08857
GEORGE ADAMS OF WATERTOWN MA & HIS SON DANIEL OF SIMSBURY CT
BY GERALD JAMES PARSONS, M.S.(L.S.), F.A.S.G
207
For many years I have worked on the ancestry of Parmenio Adams, a Revolutionary soldier, who was among the pioneers of Onondaga County, New York, where he settled about 1795. lie died there in the Town of Lysander on 18 March 1809, aged 6 1 years, 1 month and 26 days (g.s.) , and is buried in the Adams Family Cemetery on the road between Jack's Reef and Plainville. He was born 22 Jan. 1747/8 in the Town of Simsbury, Hartford Co., Conn., son of Daniel and Lucy (Saxton) Adams; grandson of Daniel and Thanks (Shepard) Adams; and great-grandson of Daniel Adams who settled in Simsbury in t he latter part of the 17th century. This Daniel Adams was be lieved to be the son of George Adams of Watertown, Mass., one of the numerous 17th-century Adams immigrants to New England. The late Dr. Arthur Adams, F.A.S.G., told me that t his was undoubtedly correct, that he accepted it on the basis of circumstantial evidence and that proof probably would never be found. However, proof has been found in some 18th century deeds in Middlesex Co., Mass., and the Adams li ne is now established. No published genealogy of this J' amily exists and what appears in print on George Adams in various town histories and genealogical publications is ~ketchy, conflicting and inaccurate. The facts are as foll ows :
1. GEORGEl ADAMS, a glover, came from England and as early as 1645 settled at Watertown, Mass., where he was killed 10 Oct. 1696, "by the fall of a rock." He married FRANCES TAYLOR, who survived him, daughter of Richard Taylor of Watertown.
Exactly when George Adams came to New England is not known, but he was living in Watertown in 1645 when his eldest son John was born. About this time or soon after , he became involved with the settlement of Lancaster, Mass. The Collowing is quoted from page 10 of Henry S. Nourse's Lanc astriana I: A Supplement to the Early Records and Military lt nna1s of Lancaster, Massachusetts (1900): " ... George Adams, u glover and trader of Watertown--in the e arliest assignment
f lands here made to the pioneers by Stephen Day, as early as 1645--received twenty acres for his home lot on the eastern slope of the hill [i.e., George Hill, believed named fo r George Adams] , bounded north by the trucking-house lot which John Prescott bought of Jo~n Cowdall in 1647. Adams ooon got into serious trouble by illicit trade with the Indiams, ... and his unimproved home lot was reconveyed by the proprietors to Jonas Fairbank. In 1670, however, Adams La id claim to the land and the town appeased him by a grant of sixty acres near 'Washacome.' There he built and lived , apparently a genial neighbor to the Indians."
It is unlikely that George Adams settled in Lancaster Co r any length of time, if at all, during this early period,
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since he forfeited his home lot to the town through his inaction and absence. He was a resident of Watertown in 1653 when he was censured by the General Court. In the records of that court held at Boston on 18 May 1653, appear the foJ lowing:
George Addams, for selling two guns & strong water to the Indians, & haueing nothinge to satisfy the law, is ordred to be whipt & discharged out of prison [Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 3:308].
In ansr to the peticon of George Addams, the Courte, finding that h was found guilty of selling two gunnes and strong waters, having nothinB to sattisfy the lawe, determined that he shall be severely whipt the next lecture day at Boston, and then discharged of the prison [ ibid. 4: pt. 1:133].
At a meeting of the selectmen of Watertown on 29 Jan. 1654/5, George Adams was granted four ·acres "vpon Kinges Comen" (Watertown Records 1:40). On 29 Jan. 1660/61, the town found George Adams and his family of five children living in need (ibid. 1:71). Then on 4 Nov. 1664, George and his wife Frances sold their dwelling house in Watertown and the land adjoining to John Chinery (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 5:50, at the Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge, Mass.) and soon after removed to Lancaster.
About 1670 George Adams started taking steps to validate his right to the lost twenty acres on George Hill in Lancaster. Since this land had been granted to Jonas Fairbank and could not be taken away from him, the town, conceding that George had some right to the lot, granted him sixty acres of upland on 6 Feb. 1670/71. He had to meet certain conditions, the chief one being that he and his son John "for them selues their heires and asignes [were] neuer [again] to disturbe or trouble the towne or any man in the towne about any former Rights [or] titles" [Henry S. Nourse, The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1725 (1884), p. 83]. Both George and John Adams signed this document by mark. Early in 1670 George Adams petitioned the General Court for confirmation of his claim to the two hundred acres of land in Lancaster which he had acquired from the Sachem Shoniow some years earlier [Mass. Archives, Boston, 45:165]. It was not until 12 May 1675, that the General Court, "In ansr to the petition of George & Francis Addams, humbly desiring the favour of this Court to confirme vnto them a certeine parcel! of vp1and & meadow seuerall yeares since given to them by ' Shoniow, sachem of Nashaway, deceased, called by the name of Washaame Hill, being about the quantity of two hundred acres," granted the request [Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 5:39].
In late summer 1675 and in February 1676 during King Philip's War, Lancaster was ravaged by Indian attacks; and after the second assault the town was abanoned. The Adamses undoubtledly took refuge in Watertown or Cambridge Farms and probably did not return to Lancaster, for on 28 May 1684, the name of George Adams appeared on a list of Lancaster property owners who lived ouf of town (Nourse, op.cit., , -p. 122).
"!Ji9RGE ADAMS
last years in Cambr : his son George were
1~ 0 ministry from 1 May 1692 to : His tory of the Town of Lexington
George Adams was "killed at W: h~ fall of a rock, according to
,)uJ·y, preserved in the Suffolk C· His tory of cambridge, Massachuse 179 . Frances Adams, "Reaict wi 'Lt mbridge Husbandman Dece , " was
h l s estate on 28 Oct. 1696. The "(:e orge Adams Senr late of Cambr lc Lobr, 1696" was taken 19 Oct. 13s . 8d. In this inventory appe rnd and Sixty acres of Land at L bo te Records of the County of Mi ~J st Cambridge] .
The two-hundred-acre tract in (l(' neral Court in 1675 was not so 1715, George Adams of Lexington place, spinster, "the Son and Da rue rly of Lancaster glover deced" tra ct to "our elder Brother John ('onnecticut"; and on the same da "Son of George Adams formerly of d<'eded three fifths of this trac tLeman," of Weston, Mass. MiddJ :!89 . Then, on 7 Nov. 1723, San "Son to George Adams formerly oi ncph Adams of Simsbury, Conn., ' le l Adams also Son to the aforeE s Lar or Nashaway" and "for the c Lhe r Daniel Adams aforesd deced , fifths to Mr. Fullam. The deed we re "Invested with two Fifths c T ract of Land formerly granted c o f Nashaway unto the sd George i which was confirmed by the Gen~ 12~h 1675 containing Two Hundrec 22: 390].
2
Children: i. John2, b. 16 Oct. 1645, Wat
ii.
iii. iv. v.
vi.
chester, CT.; m. Windsor, b. 26 Nov. 1654, daughtet ney, according to Henry I
George, b.ca. 1647; d. Lexi there 28 Feb. 1683, Martl
Daniel, b. ca. 1652, d. 7 I Joseph, b. 6 March 1657, W< Samuel, b. ca. 1660, m. (1:
23 April 1694, Deborah B• d. 29 Sept. 1753, daught• Bartlett, and widow of J, had d. 1 March 1692/3.
Mary, b. ca. 1663, bapt. Wa
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,ot to the town through his inresident of Watertown in 1653 ;eneral Court. In the records on 18 May 1653, appear the fol ~
uns & strong water to the Indians, & , is ordred to be whipt & discharged por and Company of the Massachusetts
Addams, the Courte, finding that he nes and strong waters, having nothing at he shall be severely whipt the n discharged of the prison [ ibid. 4:
1en of Watertown on 29 Jan. :ed four -acres "vpon Kinges Co-
On 29 Jan. 1660/61, the town 1ily of five children living in [ov. 1664, George and his wife
tuse in Watertown and the land dlesex Co. Deeds, 5:50, at the dge, Mass.) and soon after re-
.rted taking steps to validate ,cres on George Hill in Lancasgranted to Jonas Fairbank and
1im, the town, conceding that .ot, granted him sixty acres of ad to meet certain conditions, d his son John "for them selues
l ] neuer [again] to disturbe or n the towne about any former Nourse, The Early Records of
1-1725 (1884), p. 83J. Both ~his document by mark. Early 1d the General Court for contwo hundred acres of land in
1d from the Sachem Shoniow some Boston, 45:165]. It was not
tneral Court, "In ansr to the .ddams, humbly desiring the fa' vnto them a certeine parcell •ares since given to them by' ,eceased, called by the name of
quantity of two hundred acres, " f the Governor and Company of ngland 5:39]. February 1676 during King Phied by Indian attacks; and af-•n was abanoned. The Adamses tertown or Cambridge Farms and caster, for on 28 May 1684, the on a list of Lancaster proper•n (Nourse, op.cit.,,-p. 122).
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lie spent his last years in Cambridge Farms now Lexington where he and his son George were taxed for'the support of' the ministry from 1 May 1692 to 1 May 1693 [Charles Hudson History of the Town of Lexington (1913), 1:33]. '
George Adams was "kille~ at Wat[ertown] 10 Oct. 1696, by he fall of a rock, accord1ng to the verdict of Coroner's
J~ry, preserved in the Suffolk Court Files" Lucius R. Paige, 1/~story of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877 (1877), p. 479 .. Frances Adams, "Re~ict widow of George Adams late of C~mbr1dge Husbandman Dece ,"was appointd administratrix of hls estate on 28 Oct. 1696. The inventory of the estate of "George Adams Senr late of Cambridge who Deced ye 10th of Octobr, 1696" was taken 19 Oct. 1696, and amounted to £6l l3s. 8d. In this inventory appears an entry for "Two hunred and Sixty acres of Land at Lancaste~'valued at £50 (Probate Records of the County of Middlesex, Mass., 9:70-72 at East Cambridge].
The two-hundred-acre tract in Lancaster confirmed by the General Court in 1675 was not sold for many years. On 24 May 1715, George Adams of Lexington and Mary Adams of the same place, spinster, "the Son and Daughter of George Adams formerly of Lancaster glover deced" sold their rights in this tract to "our elder Brother John Adams of Colchester in Connecticut"; and on the same date John Adams of Colchest~~ "Son of George Adams formerly of Lancaster Glover deed " ' deeded three fifths of this tract to Francis Fullam "Gentleman," of Weston, Mass. Middlesex Co. Deeds 17:351; 22: 389 . Then, on 7 Nov. 1723, Samuel Adams of Windsor Conn "Son to George Adams formerly of Lancastar deced" a~d Jo-'' seph Adams of Simsbury, Conn., "~n Right of his father Dan-1el Adams also Son to the afores. George Adams of s~ Lancastar or Nashaway" and "for the children & heirs of his fat~er Daniel Adams aforesd deced," deeded the remaining two flfths to Mr. Fullam. The deed states that Samuel and Joseph were "Invested with two Fifths of the whole of a Certain Tract of Land formerly granted or given by Shoinow Sachem of Nashaway unto the sd George Adams and Frances his Wife whigh was confirmed by the Gen~ Court held at Boston May 12~ 1675 containing Two Hundred Acres at Washcomhill [ibid. 22: 390].
2
Children: i. John2, b. 16 Oct. 1645, Watertown, Ma., d. 22 Nov. 1732, Col-
ii.
iii. iv. v.
vi.
chester, CT.; m. Windsor, CT, 6 Dec. 1677, Abigail Pinney, b. 26 Nov. 1654, daughter of Humphrey and Mary (Hull) Pinney, according to Henry R. Stiles, Ancient Windsor 2:610.
George, b.ca. 1647; d. Lexington, HA, 17 Feb. 1732/3; m. there 28 Feb. 1683, Martha Fiske.
Daniel, b. ca. 1652, d. 7 Nov. 1713. Joseph, b. 6 March 1657, Watertown, !1A; probably d.y. Samuel, b. ca. 1660, m. (1) Elizabeth Hill; (2) Windsor CT,
23 April 1694, Deborah Bartlett, b. 3 April or Aug. 1666, d. 29 Sept. 1753, daughter of Benjamin & Deborah (Barnard) Bartlett, and widow of Jeremiah2 Gillett (Jonathanl) who had d. 1 March 1692/3.
Mary, b. ca. 1663, bapt. Watertown MA, 21 Nov. 1686; d. Lex--
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ington, MA, 10 Feb. 1715/16 aged ca. 52. vii. Benjamin, d. 26 Oct. 1672, Lancaster MA.
REFERENCES: As cited; Arthur Adams & James L. Adams Jr., "American Adams Family History of Hr . John Davis Adams of Memphis, N.Y." p. 1, MS at Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, N.Y.; Henry Adams, George Adams of Watertown: Facts, Questions, Conjectures (1974), 102 pp. (an excellent study); Albert C. Bates, Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths (1898), p. 17; Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Famili e6 and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (1855), p. 1 (contains some errors); The Boston Transcript 16 Feb. 1927, #5023; Lexington, Mass., Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898 (1898), p. 94; Henry S . Nourse, The Birth, Marriage and Death Register ... of· Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 (1890), pp. 14, 20; James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England 1:9; Watertown Records, l:vital records pp. 12, 20; 4:120; Edwin Stanley Welles, Births, Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield .•. (1898), p. 15 .
2. DANIEL 2 ADAMS, son of George 1 and Frances (Taylor) Adams, was born about 1652, probably at Watertown, Middlesex Co., Mass., and died 7 Nov, 1713, in the Town of Simsbury, Hartford Co . , Conn. He married 20 Sept. or Dec. 1677, at Windsor, Conn . , MARY PHELPS, born there 26 Oct. 1658, died "in or about the midle of march 1715," at Simsbury, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Griswold) Phelps.
Daniel Adams served in King Philip's War from Lancaster, Mass., under Major Simon Willard in 1675 [George M. Badge, Soldie~s in King Philip's War (1906), p. 122; HenryS. NourS~ 1 Lancastriana I p. 12]. By 1677 he had removed to Windsor, Conn., where he married, but within a few years he settled in Simsbury, Conn., where he was baptized 16 Jan. 1697/8, and was admitted to full communion 3 April 1698 in the Simsbury Church [Bates, op.cit., pp. 19, 30]. Daniel Adams became a freeman in 1686 and served as a deputy from Simsbury to the Connecticut General Assembly in Oct. 1699, May and Oct. 1702, and May and Oct. 1703 [The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 3:199; 4:296, 371, 395, 407, 434 . In 1698 a military company was formed 1n Simsbury under Capt . John Higley, and Daniel Adams was appointed one of the two sergeants 'John E. Ellsworth, simsbury ... 1642-1935 (1935), p . 55 . From this time until his death he was frequently called Sergeant Daniel Adams in the records.
The will of Daniel Adams of the Town of Simsbury is dated 29 July 1713 and was proved 7 Dec. 1713 (original will File 24, Hartford Probate District, Connecticut State Library at Hartford). He stated that he was "now weak and sick in body . . . (this being the sixty first yeare of my age)." He gave his wife Mary the management of his whole estate both personal and real for her maintenance during her natural life and the power to sell and dispose of the same if his sons did not provide comfortably for her. To his son Samuel he gave land including "half of my farme Att the pease marsh ." The other half of his farm "at the pease marsh" he gave to his grandchildren, Daniel, Abraham and James Adams, "children of my son Daniel Adams decc;l" He also gave land to his
lj,ORGE ADAMS
ons Benjamin, Joseph, Thomas and v1 ng the house and homestead. To Ulltned, he gave an equal part or st
tate, except team, tackling and t~ set out to his wife. He named w tor.
Children: j . Daniel3, b. ca. 1678, probably a
(Simsbury VR) or 11 Jan. 1713 Thanks Shepard, b. Concord MA, Nov. 1724, daughter of Abraham Philbrick. She m. (2) Joseph by Adams, three by Pettebone. 1
D. L. Jacobus, The Shepard Fam 1:14 f.
i i. Sarah, no death record or birth 1
there 22 Feb. 1704/5, Thomas S cal with Thomas Stephens "of G 30 March 1719, Meriam (Miriam)
iii . Samuel, d. Simsbury, 1 April 177 Elizabeth Reade, b. Concord, M there), d. at Simsbury, 17 May Philip 1 Reade and Abigail Rice April 1760, probated 3 April 1 one daughter surviving of the Simsbury.
i v. Benjamin, a captain, d. Simsbury there, (1) 25 l1arch 1712/13, R 1694, d . 29 Nov. ·1732, mother Case (John 1) and Elizabeth Hol 1734, Lois Griswold of Windsor apparently without issue by Ad name found in H. R. Stiles's A b. Windsor, 7 Sept. 1691, youn (George 1) and wife Eunice, who 1720, Joseph3 Griswold (Joseph leaving an inventory of £782/9 ing 2:517). By Griswold she ha This identification is highly gether from study of statement 838 f., where the piecemeal p
v . Joseph, d. Simsbury, 26 March 17 Mary 3 Case, b. there, 23 Aug. bridge, 21 Nov. 1697, daughter Elizabeth Holcombe, and sister brother Benjamin. The date of they had at least two sons.
vi . Thomas, b. ca. 16894 d. 24 Feb. Dec. 1712, Martha Buttolph, t Jan. 1725/6, eldest child of I by his wife Mary, probably Har Thomas remarried but whom we d having children bo~n at Simsb~
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'· 1715/16 aged ca. 52. 1672, Lancaster MA.
1r Adams & James L. Adams Jr., "American ohn Davis Adams of Memphis, N.Y." p. 1, MS ·ary, Syracuse, N.Y.; Henry Adams, George ,stions, conjectures (197 4), 102 pp · (an :tes, Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, M~r~ 7· Henry Bond Genealogies of the Fam2l~es :e~tlers of wa~ertown, Massachusetts (1855), be Boston Transcript 16 Feb. 1927, #5023; rths, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, [curse, The Birth, Marriage and Death Reg'husetts, 1643-1850 (1890), PP· 14, 20; ·tionary of the First Settlers of New Eng_:vital records pp. 12, 20; 4:120; Edwin :ges and Deaths Returned from Hartford, •8), p. 15.
1 of Georgel and Frances (Taylor) o2, probably at Watertown, Middlesex •V 1713 in the Town of Simsbury, 1a~ried 2o Sept. or Dec. 1677, at ,PS, born there 26 Oct. 1658, died · march 1715," at Simsbury, daughter :wold) Phelps. 1 King Philip's War from Lancaster, Willard in 1675 [George M. Bodge, ·war (1906), p. 122; Henry_S. Nours , :y 1677 he had removed to W1ndsor, but within a few years he settled , he was baptized 16 Jan. 1697/8, communion 3 April 1698 in the Simst., pp. 19, 30]. Daniel Adams be-
td served as a deputy from Simsbury .l Assembly in Oct. 1699, May and :t. 1703 [The Public Records of the 199; 4:296, 371, 395, 407, 434 .
1y was formed in Simsbury under Capt. ,dams was appointed one of the two •rth, Simsbury ... 1642-1935 (1935), 1ntil his death he was frequently lams in the records. ms of the Town of Simsbury is dated ·ed 7 Dec. 1713 (original will File :rict Connecticut State Library at .t he' was "now weak and sick in boxty first yeare of my age)." He . nagement of his whole estate both · maintenance during her natural .l and dispose of the same if his ·ortably for her. To his son Samuel 1alf of my farme Att the pease marsh.' ' ·m "at the pease marsh" he gave to
Abraham and James Adams, "childIS dec<;!" He also gave land to his
. GEORGE ADAMS 211
sons Benjamin, Joseph, Thomas and Ephraim, the latter receiving the house and homestead. To his three daughters, not named, he gave an equal part or share of all the moveable estate, except team, tackling and guns, after a third part was set out to his wife. He named his son Benjamin sole executor.
Children: i. Daniel3, b. ca. 1678, probably at Windsor, CT, d. 10 Jan. 1712/3
(Simsbury VR) or 11 Jan. 1713 ae. 36 (g.s.); m. ca. 1702-3, Thanks Shepard, b. Concord MA, 30 June 1683, d. Simsbury 2 Nov. 1724, daughter of Abraham2 Shepard (Ralph 1 ) and Judith Philbrick. She m. (2) Joseph Pettebone, had five children by Adams, three by Pettebone. On her see G. F. Shepard and D. L. Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England (1971), 1:14 f.
ii. Sarah, no death record or birth of children at Simsbury; m. there 22 Feb. 1704/5, Thomas Stevens. Whether he was identical with Thomas Stephens "of Great britan" who m. there on 30 March 1719, Meriam (Miriam) Buell, is not certain.
iii. Samuel, d. Simsbury, 1 April 1772; m. there, 2 July 1713, Elizabeth Reade, b. Concord, MA, ca. 1690 (not recorded there) d. at Simsbury, 17 May 1764 ae . 74, 5th child of Dr. Philipi Reade and Abigail Rice. Samuel ' s will was dated 11 April 1760, probated 3 April 1772, mentions only one son and one daughter surviving of the two each recorded as b. at Simsbury.
iv. Benjamin, a captain, d. Simsbury, of cancer, 3 Oct. 1770; m. there, (1) 25 l1arch 1712/13, Rachel 3 Case, b. there, 10 Dec. 1694, d. 29 Nov. ·1732, mother of four, daughter of William2 Case (Johnl) and Elizabeth Holcombe; (2) at Simsbury, 29 May 1734, Lois Griswold of Windsor, d. Simsbury, 15 Jan. 1758, apparently without issue by Adams. The only person of this name found in H. R. Stiles's Ancient Windsor is a Lois Phelps, b. '1-Tindsor, 7 Sept. 1691, youngest child of Nathaniel2 Phelps (George 1) and wife Eunice, who m. (1) as 2nd wife, 13 Oct. 1720, Joseph3 Griswold (Joseph2, Edward 1), who d . 1725, leaving an inventory of £782/9/3 taken 6 April 1725 (I1anwaring 2:517). By Griswold she had two daughters and one son. This identification is highly probable and has been put together from study of statements of Dr. Stiles 2:352, 595, 838 f., where the piecemeal parts are not put together.
v. Joseph, d. Simsbury, 26 March 1741; m. there, 30 April 1719, Mary 3 Case, b. there, 23 Aug. 1696, bapt. by Dudley Woodbridge, 21 Nov. 1697, daughter of William2 Case (John1 ) and Elizabeth Holcombe, and sister to the first wife of Joseph's brother Benjamin. The date of Mary's death is not found but they had at least two sons •
vi. Thomas, b. ca. 1689, d. 24 Feb. 1784, ae. 95; m. Simsbury, 25 Dec. 1712, Martha 4 Buttalph, b. there, 2 April 1694, d. 24 Jan. 1725/6, eldest child of David 3 Buttalph (John2, Thomas 1 ) by his wife Mary, probably Mary Buck. After Martha died, Thomas remarried but whom we do not know, though he kept having children born at Simsbury for some years.
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vii. Mary, bapt. Simsbury, 16 Jan. 1697/8; m. there, 27 Jan. 171~/1 Daniel Porter, b. there 6 Nov. 1686, first son of Richard Porter who was in 1686· evidently living in Simsbury but \.IIIII
of Waterbury when the son was married. Daniel and Mary htul two sons b. in Simsbury and then disappear. The family is H••• found in Stiles's Ancient Windsor nor is there any probat for Daniel Porter in Manwaring's Digest.
viii. Thankful, b. 4 Harch 1697/8, Simsbury; bapt. there 10 April 1698; d. there 21 Feb. 1699.
ix. Ephraim, bapt. 25 May 1701, Simsbury; m. there, 5 May 1726, Ruth Beaman.
x. Thankful, b. ca. 1702, d. 13 Feb. 1733/4, at vlindsor; m. th ,,. 17 May 1721, Robert Westland, of whom Stiles's Ancient Windsor 2:789 says little except that they had five childr 11. The birth of the last child is dated 15 June 1734 which, i right, is inconsistent with the date given above of the mother's death.
REFERENCES: As cited; Arthur Adams and James L. Adams Jr., "American Adams Family History of Mr. John Davis Adams, of l1emphis, N.Y." · (1936) pp. 2 f.; Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Connecticut State Library; Albert C. Bates, Rev. Dudley Woodbridge his Church Recor atSimsbury in Conn., 1697-1710 (1894), pp. 14-16; Bates, Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths (1898), pp. 19-22, 30, 32, 34-36, 41, ll6, 144, 213; C. W. Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford District, Edwin Stanley Welles, Births, Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield ... (1898), p. 14.
224 Arnold Avenue, Syracuse, New York 13210
MEN OF THE FORTUNE: JOHN ADAMS
BY ROBERT S. WAKEFIELD, F.A.S.G.
In November 1621 the Fortun e arrived in Plymouth "in whi h came Mr. Cushman and with him thirty-five persons to remain and live in the plantation" (Governor Bradford's of Plymouth Plantation).
In the 1623 "Division of Land" John Adams received one ac• re of land as a passenger on the Fortune (Nathaniel B. Shurt leff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymou th in New England, 12:6, hereafter PCR). In the 1627 "Division ol Cattle:• he is in the sixth lot with a family consisting of himself, Eliner Adams and James Adams (PCR 12:11). It has lon been assumed that his wife was the Ellen Newton who came on the An n e in 1623 and received one acre in the 1623 "Division of Land" (PCR 12:6), as she is the only person with that fir s name known to be in Plymouth by 1627.
John Adams was one of the "Purchasers" of Plymouth (PCR 2:177) and was a Freeman in 1633 (PCR 1:3) and was taxed the minimum amount 25 March 1633 (PCR 1:10). On 11 Nov. 1633 Ellen Adams presented the inventory of his estate and the Court ordered "that if in case the said Ellen shall have an inclinacon to marry, shee, before her said marriage, estate the three children of her former husband, deceased, James, John & Susan,
, /IN ADAMS
111 five pounds starling aJ lllne to years of discreti<
Itt "' estate was dated 24 0« t h7 f., hereafter MD).
Kenelme Winsloe & Elen tun e 1634 (PCR 1:30). On '
Jill wood should be cut dow! · !l•tms at Playne Dealing ( l
" Kanelme Winslow of Mar: t,, Ellenor Adames, someti1 ,j 1 d put in security to pa;
, >me of five pounds when I
1 ... unds and it was recordet Letters of administrat
11 1 Marshfield to administ• di e d at sea on the ship c ' t'h<~ inventory was exhibit . 11 nnot be the son of John Ill e r. Almost surely he is '"' received 40 pounds of .l.tmes Sherley of London o
Kenelm and Ellen Winsl l li 37), Nathaniel (b. 1639 k·· lelm Winslow died at Sa 11;72 (Marshfield VR 427) t il e 5th of december 1681; VI\ 13).
The will of Kenelme Wi '"'mes eldest son John, so •: nn Job, daughter Ellinor ll<'r decease my wife shall 1 ion of the Goods and Mov •·ili.ldren (MD 24:41 f.).
Children of John and Ellen i. James2, b. before 22 Ma ii . John, b. after 22 May iii. Susan, no further reco
1. JAMES 2 ADAMS, b. PJ I· ,·:tnces Vassall, daughter 1 t'CR 2: 108). The marriage 11111e 1646, so the m~rn.agE
James Adams was 1n the 1 11ll is listed under i.1arshJ l 1s ted under Plymouth is I
On 2l Feb. James Adams ,·IJasing sugar from Nicho~~ 1 he father of Frances, dH t d a te of will) and 8 Apri: 1 lw sale by her husband o J , ., tate in Barbados to Nicl 1 :~st record of this famill 1 he y moved to Barbados ab<
Children of James and Franc i. 1Villiam3, b. 16 May H ii. Anna, b. 18 April 164~
