Joseph Adams (1715 - 1794)

Born 3 Jul 1715 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Frost) Adams — married about 10 Jan 1740 in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Husband of Hannah (Hall) Adams — married 11 Sep 1750 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 3 May 1794 at age 78 in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Joseph Adams was born on July 3, 1715, in Cambridge, MIddlesex, Massachusetts^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W., Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 Volume 1. Births (Boston, Mass. 1914)(Free e-book) (Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 13

Notes

Note N22

"Joseph was for many years deacon of the Church in what is now Arlington, Mass., [Menotomy]. He had sixteen children, fifteen of whom lived to an adult age and followed him to the grave. Thomas, the fifth child b. July 19, 1751, was in the field with his father and elder brother when the British went to Lexington from Boston [April 19, 1775], two British officers went into the house. One ordered his mother who was sick on the bed, to get up and go out to the loom-house, while the other poured a basket of chips on the floor, and taking a brand from the fireplace, put it with the chips in order to set the house on fire. While he was doing this, Joel, another brother of Thomas, a bold daring boy who was under the bed with two or three of the children, put out his head and told the officer not to do so; for if he did, his father 'would whip him when he came home.' These officers were shot on the threshold of the door."

From History of the Town of Marlborough: Cheshire County, New Hampshire (1881) by Charles Austin Beamis, p. 395.

Burial: Old Burying Ground , Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Find A Grave Memorial# 38385751)

Dea. Joseph, son of Lt. Joseph and Rebecca (Cutter) Adams, b. in. Menotomy, July 3, 1715; m. (1) Jan. 20, 1740, Martha Frost, dau. of Ephraim and Sarah (Cozen) Frost, b. Aug. 4, 1723, d. 33 Dec, 1749; m. (2) Sept. 4 or 11, 1750, Hannah Hull, dau, of Thomas and Patience (Allen) Hall of Medford, Mass. She d. a widow 13 Aug., 1803. age 73.

He resided in tho west part of Cambridge (Menotomy), Mass.; was a deacon and selectman of the town; d. 3 May, 1794, age 79.

It is related that when his youngest dau. Ann (afterwards Mrs. Hill), was 18 days old, April 19, 1775, his wife was driven out of her home by British soldiers returning from Concord, and the house set on fire. Dea. Joseph and the two older sons were in the field at work. When one of the soldiers poured a basket of chips upon the floor and then threw n fire-brand upon it, the son Joel, who, with several of the younger ones, was under the bed, put out his head and told the soldier not to do it or his father would whip him. (A genealogical history of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and his descendants : also John Adams, of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897)

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Arlington deaths: ADAMS, Joseph, Dea., May 3, 1794, in 79th y. G.R.

Inscription:

Sacred

to the Memory of

Deacon JOSEPH ADAMS

who died May 3

1794

in the 79th year of his age.

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Note: Gravestone carved by Lamson, 1789 and after (David)