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There is an internet fantasy claiming that John Adams, husbandman of Barton St. David, Somerset, was the son of John Adams, landed aristocrat of Stoke Gabriel and Dartmouth, Devon. There is no evidence to support this supposition.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the Robert Adams who appears on a 1543 tax list in 1543 was John's father. There is no evidence to support this, and this Robert could conceivably have been John's brother, son, uncle, or second cousin. Nothing more is known of this Robert Adams.
By the same token, it has been suggested that the Alice Adams who appeared on the same 1543 subsidy list was the widow of John Adams. This is possible, but she could have been his step-mother or his aunt or his widowed sister-in-law. We simply have no idea.
Furthermore, there is an internet fantasy claiming that John Adams was the husband of Margery Squire, an alleged daughter of Thomas Squire of Podington, Bedfordshire or his alleged brother John. Once again, there is no evidence to support this supposition.
J. Gardner Bartlett's 1927 genealogy, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass., gives exactly one record that mentions John Adams: "John Adams of Barton David, born probably about 1500 to 1505, is named in the Muster Roll for the tithing of Barton, Somersetshire, 1539... and he is credited with supplying a 'bowe.'"[1]
Bartlett goes on to state that Robert Adams and widow Alice Adams appeared on a subsidy list in Barton David in 1543. Bartlett assumes that Alice was the widow of John and the mother of Henry Adams, b. 1531: "The subsidy rolls for the reign of Henry VIII for Somersetshire are few and in a generally decayed state, rendering examination difficult and somewhat inconclusive. Those for 1542 and 1543 are badly damaged, especially in a section comprising Barton, but there can still be read the name of Robert "Adamps" and Alys Adams, widow... The Alys Adams above named may be the widow of John(1) Adams, of whose death and the settlement of whose estate no record has survived...."[2]
A different John Adams (son of William) was Member of Parliament for Pembroke, Henry VIII.[3]
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https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_History_of_Robert_Adams_o/PQlXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=harriet+electa+Adams+Kenney&pg=PA362&printsec=frontcover
Birth 14 Jan 1502 in Barton St. David, Somerset Death 1542 same
Wife: Catherine Stebbing Birth 1484 Devon, England Death 1514 (1582 also found)
Her parents were John Small Stebbing of Devon and Alice Borroridge
John Adams's father: John Adams II Born 1482 Beverston, Gloucestershire Death 2 AUG 1557 Barton St David, Somerset
I was able to trace that line back a long way to (as I recall without looking) an Adam Gwynt who was a Welsh nobleman (and even much further back than that). Either he or his son took the surname Adam.
Btw, I looked into the ancestry of President John Adams and noticed he had ancestors from Barton St. David -- we appear to be 5th cousins 8 times removed :-)
It also appears that this John Adams got mixed up with a different John Adams, member of Parliament; see http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/adams-john-1511-7175
Neither of those two John Adams is known to have had sons named Richard or John; those sons should be detached unless there has been a new discovery in the primary source records.