John
Adams
Born in Medfield, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Edward Adams
and Lydia (Penniman) Adams
Brother of
Lydia (Adams) Allen, Jonathan Adams, David Adams, Eliashib Adams, Sarah (Adams) Turner, James Adams, Henry Adams, Mehitable (Adams) Faxon, Edward Adams, Bethia Adams, Bethia Adams and Miriam Adams
Husband of
Deborah (Partridge) Adams
— married
4 Apr 1682 (to 1694) in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Husband of
Susanna (Breck) Adams
— married
about 1694 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Edward Adams, John Adams, Daniel Adams, Eleazer Adams, Obadiah Adams, Jonathan Adams, Thomas Adams, Susanna Adams, Jeremiah Adams, Joshua Adams, Abraham Adams, Bethia (Adams) Stearns, Phineas Adams, Hannah (Adams) Richardson and Esther Adams
Died
at age 93
in Medway, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
John Adams' birth was recorded in Medfield: "Adams, John, s. Edward and Lidiah, Feb 18 1657/8."[1]
He married, first, Deborah Partridge on 04 Apr 1682 in Medfield,[2] and by her had five sons. About 1695, he married secondly, Susanna Breck, daughter of Thomas Breck of Sherborn, Mass.,[3] and had 8 more children.
Medfield records says: "Susanna, second wife of John, senior, d. 28 May 1744." John inherited and settled on the homestead in Medfield, and d. there 1 March, 1751.
His death is recorded in Medway: "ADAMS, John, widr., Mar. 1, 1751, in 94th y."[4]
Sources
- ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 11
- ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 112, "Adams, John, s. Edward and Debora [?] Partridg, Apr 4 1682."
- ↑ Clarence A. Torrey, compiler, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (CD version) (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2001), citing Adams Gen. (1898) p. 500; Stearns Gen. 1:61; Savage 1:12; Breck Gen. (1902) p. 5; NEHGR 51:71, 56:381
- ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905), p. 285
- http://henryadamsofbraintree.com/id10.html
- Tilden, William Smith, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries, published 1887. Page 280 details this family.
- New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4 William Richard Cutter- January 1, 1914, page 1662
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The Sherborn Brecks Vol LVI page 549
- Page 500; A genealogical history of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and his descendants; also John Adams, of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897 by Adams, Andrew N. (Andrew Napoleon), 1830-1905. https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalhist00adam#page/500/mode/2up
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
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- Kirt Adams
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #34080
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~0.78%
R Clark :
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~0.78%
C Clark :
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~0.78%
Kirt Adams :
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~0.39%
Donald Brearley :
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~0.39%
Janelle Short :
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~0.39%
Teri (Green) McIntire :
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POTUS John, son of John Sr, son of Joseph Jr, son Joseph Sr, son of Henry, the last being link to the Medfield Adams family. There are references to the Medfield Adams family in writings by POTUS John.
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by Adams, Andrew N. (Andrew Napoleon)