Joseph Adams (1702 - 1790)

Born 13 Nov 1702 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Warner) Adams — married about 10 Jan 1727 (to about 6 Jan 1734) in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Husband of Dorothy (Meriam) Adams — married 10 Nov 1736 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 May 1790 at age 87 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Biography

Joseph, son of Thomas Adams & Bethiah Adams, was born on 12 November 1702 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Joseph married Priscilla Warner on 29 October 1727 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.^[2]

Children

Bethiah Adams Sarah Adams Thomas Adams Joseph Adams Lydia Adams Elizabeth Adams Benjamin Adams Charles Adams Bethiah Adams

Joseph was buried at the Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ^[3]

Joseph Adam's, yeoman of Concord, will was written on June 18, 1778, and submitted for probate in June 9, 1790 by Joseph Chandler. In it he mentions: ^[4]

• his beloved wife Dorothy Adams
• son-in-law Joseph Chandler (executor) and daughter Lydia Chandler
• daughter Priscilla Adams
• grandson Joseph Appleton
• Benjamin Adams and Priscilla his wife
• Peter Fletcher and Ruth his wife
• Isaac Appleton and Mary his wife
• Benjamin Pollard and Marcy his wife
• Jothiam/Lothiam Hins? ^[4]

An agreement was signed by Benjamin Adams, Isaac Appleton, Peter Fletcher and Marcy Whiting, that the settlement of the estate would be carried out after the death of widow Dorothy Adams. ^[4]

The widow Dorothy died at Concord on July 25, 1791.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, citing Digital film/folder number: 007009714_002_M99N-2GZ; Image number: 47, FamilySearch Record: QG1K-SRTP (accessed 2 March 2024) FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G979-M9X7-T.
2. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009714.
   FamilySearch Record: QG1K-725F (accessed 25 September 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-8979-M96Z-2 Image number 00142
   Joseph Adams marriage to Priscilla Warner on 29 Oct 1727 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 27 January 2020), memorial page for Joseph Adams (1702–10 Apr 1790), Find A Grave: Memorial #171368054, citing Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Pat Best (contributor 47800896) Gravestone picture doesn't match page, but wife Dorothy is linked
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Case 176: p. 1-9: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)

• FamilySearch Person: MGPN-8D4

Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919), Vol. 1, p. 14.

• Ethel Peters Miller/Hugh Darrell Miller 1985 copy in possession of author

Acknowledgement

• This person was created through the import of bjm.ged on 22 May 2011.