Samuel Adams (1751 - 1788)

Born 16 Oct 1751 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 17 Jan 1788 at age 36 in Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA

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Biography

"Dr. Samuel Adams, Jr. died in 1788, only in his late thirties. He had studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren, friend and fellow patriot. The younger Adams had served as surgeon in General George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War, but had fallen ill and never fully recovered. The death was a stunning blow to the elder Adams, but there was joy in the happy marriage of his daughter Hannah to Captain Thomas Wells, a younger brother of Elizabeth Adams."^[1]

Samuel Adams, Jr. died unmarried and Robert Adams had read, in a 11/2/2006 post by Art Thomas, that he is alleged to have fathered Lewis Adams by a negro slave named Sibbah.^[2][3] She was born in Kentucky, a slave of the William Adams family of what would become Shelby County, and later part of Oldham County. She died in Champaign County, Ohio in 1848. The same forum has more recent posts regarding a slave named Surry.^{[4][5] [6][7]}It appears to me that the two slaves are being conflated. I see no relationship between the Samuel Adams family of Massachusetts and the William Adams family of Kentucky. This was later resolved when Mr. Thomas clearly made Sibbah's paternal connection to William Adams.^[8]

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[9] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Birth

Birth:

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Record ID Number: MH:IF183

Date: 16 OCT 1751

Place: Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA

Death

Death:

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Record ID Number: MH:IF1490

Date: 17 JAN 1788

Place: Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA

Record ID Number

Record ID Number: MH:I466

User ID

User ID: 465AD5FE-0431-4992-81C6-B46F0CF5C599

UPD

UPD 15 OCT 2010 09:38:44 GMT-5

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/05/elizabeth-wells-adams.html
2. ↑ Afrigeneas Slave Research Forum, https://afrigeneas.com/index.cgi/md/read/id/60147/sbj/family-history-timeline-art-thomas/. . . A portion of that post read: "11 May 1785 - Birth, Lewis Adams, a 3rd great-grandfather, and a son of Sibbah, was born near Louisville, KY. Lewis' mother, Sibbah was a slave of William Adams. Lewis' father was reportedly Samuel Adams, a son of the famed Politician from the State of Massachusetts and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Samuel the son, was a surgeon in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War who became a major landowner in KY prior to his death abt 1799. Of course the fact of Samuel's paternity has yet to be verified and I seriously doubt it will/can ever be proven."
3. ↑ https://findagrave.com/memorial/8249496/sibbah-m-mastison
4. ↑ Afrigeneas Slave Research Forum, https://afrigeneas.com/forumd/index.cgi/md/read/id/12505/sbj/samuel-adams-slave-named-surry/
5. ↑ Descendants of Sibbah (Adams), https://genealogy.com/ftm/t/h/o/Arthur-L-Thomas/GENE14-0001.html
6. ↑ https://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Surry%20%28Adams%29
7. ↑ https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2009/01/samuel-adams-and-slavery-private-man.html
8. ↑ Art's Families & Other Folk, https://mydatabase.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=mydatabase&view=0&pid=1063&ver=16028
9. ↑ Adams-18613 was created by Roland Goodwin through the import of Goodwin Family Tree.ged on Jan 1, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.