Frances (Taylor) Adams (abt. 1626 - aft. 1696)

Born about 1626 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Wife of George Adams — married 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Colony of Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 10 Dec 1696 after about age 70 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Name

Name: Frances Taylor

She is the presumed daughter of Richard and Ann Taylor of Watertown, Massachusetts. This is based on the 1659 will of Richard Taylor which names his daughter Frances Adams. A thorough search of the records has revealed no other possible Frances Adams, other than the wife George Adams.

She frequently is named in land deeds along with her husband George Adams.

Birth

Born: About 1625. (say between 1620 and 1627).

Estimate based on birth of first known child in 1645, presumed marriage by 1644and her still having children as late as 1663.

Children of George and Frances Adams:

1. John Adams. Born 16 October ("16d. 8m.") 1645 in Watertown, Massachusetts.^[1] He is one of only two children for whom a birth record exists, and is specifically called "eldest son" in a deed of his father in 1671.^[2] He married Abigail Pinney, daughter of Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull, on 6 December 1677 in Windsor, Connecticut.^[3] They had 6 children all born at Simsbury, Connecticut.^[4] He died on 22 November 1732 in Colchester, Connecticut.^[5]
2. George Adams. Born about 1647 as he was a witness in a case on 17 December 1662 and was ‘aged abt fifteen years.’ He married Martha Fiske on 28 February 1683/4 in Lexington, Massachusetts.^[6] He died 17 February 1732/3 in Lexington.^[7]
3. Benjamin Adams. Born say 1650. The date is a complete guess to place him in the gap between George and Daniel (Mary could also fit in here). The only notice of this child is the record of his death on 26 October 1672 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. ^[8]
4. Daniel Adams. Born about 1652 as he was stated to be aged 61 in his will dated 29 July 1713.^[9] He died 7 November 1713 in Simsbury, Connecticut. Proof that this Daniel was son of George Adams of Watertown comes from a deed of sale where ‘Joseph Adams of Simsbury, son of Daniel Adams of Simsbury, deceased, who was also son of the aforementioned George Adams of Lancaster and Nashaway’ sold his 1/5th share of the Lancaster property.^[10] He married Mary Phelps, daughter of Samuel Phelps on 20 September 1677 in Windsor, Connecticut.^[11][12] Her stepfather was Nathaniel Pinney and some records call her Mary Pinney. Mary “departed this Life in or about the midle of march 1715.” He died 7 November 1713 in Simsbury, Connecticut.^[13]
5. Joseph Adams. Born 6 March 1657 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He is one of only two children whose births were actually recorded. He apparently died before his father and without issue as neither he nor any heirs inherited a share of the Lancaster property.^[14]
6. Samuel Adams. Born c1660 according to Gerald Parsons, though the reason for the estimate is not known or stated.^[15] He was married Elizabeth Hill, the daughter of Luke and Mary Hill of Simsbury, Connecticut. They had 3 children born at Simsbury, Elizabeth on 21 February 1688 and twins Samuel and Joshua on 26 August 1689.^[16] She died by 15 February 1694 when her father made his will.^[17] He remarried to Deborah Bartlett, the daughter of Benjamin Bartlett and Deborah Bernard and the widow of Jeremiah Gillett. They had two children Gillett, born 19 February 1695 and Jemima 13 April 1699. He is last known living when he sold his 1/5th share of his inheritance in the land in Lancaster.
7. Mary Adams. Born about 1663 as she was age 52 at her death in February 1715/6. She is known from multiple records where she inherited a 1/5th share of her father's estate. She was baptized and admitted to the church at Watertown on 21 November 1686. Mary, the only daughter, would have appeared to have lived out her life as a spinster in the household of her brother, George Jr. On 24 May 1715, George and Mary sold their respective 1/5th shares of Lancaster property to their older brother ‘John of Cholchester.’ She died 10 February 1715/6 at Lexington, Massachusetts.^[18]

Death

Died: After 10 December 1696.

Date the inventory of her husband was taken.

Previously a date of 31 December 1696 at Lexington, Massachusetts was on this profile. I find no record of this and it does not occur in the Vital Records of Lexington. Lexington. Lexington Mass. Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898): page 407.

Sources

Footnotes and citations:

1. ↑ Watertown Records. (1894): page 12.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images online, FamilySearch.org. Middlesex County Deeds 1670-1678: vol 4-6. Volume 5, page 4, image 282 of 702.
3. ↑ Wells, Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, (1898): Page 15
4. ↑ Adams. George Adams of Watertown: Facts, Questions and Conjectures, (1974): page 25.
5. ↑ The Barbour Collection: Colchester. (1920): page 2.
6. ↑ Lexington Vital Records (1898): page 94.
7. ↑ Lexington Vital Records (1898): page 163.
8. ↑ Lancaster. The Birth Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850. (1890): page 14.
9. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 55 no. 4 (October 1979): pages 207-212.
10. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 55 no. 4 (October 1979): pages 207-212.
11. ↑ Barbour The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records: Windsor. (1929): page 1.
12. ↑ Wells, Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, (1898): Page 14
13. ↑ Bates. Simsbury, Connecticut ... Town Records. (1898): page 41.
14. ↑ Watertown Records. (1894): page 20.
15. ↑ The American Genealogist, vol. 55 no. 4 (October 1979): pages 207-212.
16. ↑ Bates. Simsbury, Connecticut ... Town Records. (1898): page 17.
17. ↑ Adams. George Adams of Watertown: Facts, Questions and Conjectures, (1974): page 44.
18. ↑ Lexington Vital Records (1898): page 163.

Source list:

• Adams, Henry. George Adams of Watertown: Facts, Questions and Conjectures, (privately printed, 1974). LDS film 973025, Item 14.

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records: Colchester Births , Marriages and Deaths 1699 to 1850. (1920, Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, 2011): page 2.

• Barbour, Lucius Barnes. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records: Windsor Births , Marriages and Deaths 1637 to 1850. (1929, Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, 2011): page 1.

• Bates, Albert C. Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths transcribed from the Town Records. (1898): page 41.

• Bodge, George M. Soldiers in King Philip's war. Containing lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts Colony, who served in the Indian war of 1675-1677. (Boston, 1891): page 228.

• Bond, Henry. Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, vol. 2 (1855): page 673.

• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, vol. 3, (1910: page 1867.

• Lancaster. Henry S. Nourse, ed. The Birth Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850. (Lancaster, MA: 1890). Archive.org LINK

• Lexington. Lexington Mass. Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898). Archive.org LINK

• Mackenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families of the U.S...., vol. 1, "Lineage: George Adams", (Baltimore, 1966): page 1. Available at Ancestry.com (paid). Note: Source in error regarding this John Adams.

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7 no. 1 (January 1853): 39-44. Pedigree of the Adams Family, by William Downing Bruce. This pedigree is a known forgery. Books.google.com LINK Archive,org LINK

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 34 no. 4 (October 1880): 432-433. In Book Notices, by the editor - A retraction of the 1853 article on the Adams Pedigree which is called a complete forgery. Books.google.com LINK

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 37 no. 2 (April 1883): 159-160. “Forgery in the Adams Pedigree,” by the editor. A reiteration of the fact that the pedigree published in 1853 was a forgery. Books.google.com LINK

• The American Genealogist, vol. 55 no. 4 (October 1979): 207-212 , George Adams of Watertown, MA & His Son Daniel of Simsbury, CT, by Gerald James Parsons. AmericanAncestors.org (paid) LINK

• Historical Society of Watertown. Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Lands Grants and Possessions, also the Proprietors' Book and the First Book and Supplement of Births and Deaths and Marriages. (Watertown, 1894): 12. Archive.org LINK

• Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut. (1898): Page 15

• "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images online, FamilySearch.org. Middlesex County Deeds 1670-1678: vol 4-6. Volume 4, page 196, image 112 of 702.

• "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images online, FamilySearch.org. Middlesex County Deeds 1670-1678: vol 4-6. Volume 5, page 4, image 282 of 702.

• "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images online, FamilySearch.org. Middlesex County Deeds 1670-1678: vol 4-6. Volume 5, page 50, image 307 of 702.

• Nourse, Henry Stedman ed. The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1643-1725, (Lancaster, 1884): page 83.

• Shurtleff, Nathaniel ed. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, vol. 4 part 1. (Boston, 1854): page 133. Archive.org LINK

• Shurtleff, Nathaniel ed. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, vol. 5. (Boston, 1854): page 35. Books,google.com LINK.

• Watertown. Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books, (Historical Society of Watertown, Mass. 1894): page 40, 71. Archive,org LINK

Acknowledgements (contributors):

• Created on 19 March 2011 through the import of KRH Family Tree_2010-12-30.ged.
• WikiTree profile Taylor-5111 created through the import of DeMarco-Gaffney Family Tree.ged on Jul 1, 2011 by Regina DeMarco.
• WikiTree profile Taylor-5573 created through the import of Ed_s tree_2008-10-18_2011-07-29.ged on Jul 29, 2011 by Alexis Connolly.
• WikiTree profile Taylor-9387 created through the import of Evans-Stanley.ged on May 16, 2012 by Kathie Llewellyn.
• This profile developed through the merging of Taylor-5573 into Taylor-5111 by Tom Bredehoft, an Arborist, on 12/9/2013