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Samuel Adams (abt. 1640 - aft. 1694)

Samuel Adams aka Addams
Born about in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap [uncertain]
Son of and
Brother of , , , , and [half]
Husband of — married 30 Dec 1664 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , and
Died after after about age 54 [location unknown]
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Biography

Samuel Adams was the son William Adams (spelled Addams in Ipswich records).[1][2] His mother's name is not known. His birth year has been estimated to have been somewhere between 1635 (Holman Ms.)[3] and 1642 (1664 marriage year). The assumed birth year is material to his possible birth location. He was likely born in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His father removed to Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1641, so there is a chance that Samuel was born there.

Samuel married Mehitable Norton, daughter of George and Mary (Unknown) Norton, on 20 December 1664, in Ipswich. [4]

Samuel and Mehitable had children, all born in Ipswich:[2][3][5][6]

  1. Mehitable (1665), married John Osborn in 1685, in Ipswich[7]
  2. Mary (1667), no further records
  3. Samuel (1670), no further records
  4. William (1672/3), married Abigail Oviatt in 1698, in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony[8]
  5. Freegrace (ca 1675), married Mary Galpin in 1700/1, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony[9]
  6. Sarah (1677), married Moses Johnson in 1703, in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Colony[10]
  7. Elizabeth (ca 1679), married James Brisco in 1699, in Milford[11]

The births of Freegrace and Elizabeth do not appear in Ipswich vital records, and the Norton and Essex Antiquarian references cited above do not include them as children of Samuel and Mehitable. They are listed as their children by Donald Lines Jacobus, also cited above, in a correction to his Families of Old Fairfield. Jacobus writes that his corrections were the result of new information given to him and further research on his part, but he does not give specific details.

Circumstantial evidence for the parents of Freegrace and Elizabeth Adams is that Mehitable Norton had siblings named Mary, Freegrace, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Mehitable's brother Freegrace was killed in King Philip's War in 1675, so (her son) Freegrace Adams may have been named in his memory. A daughter Elizabeth is consistent with Mehitable naming children after her Norton siblings. Further, a William Adams appears in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony about 1697 along with a Freegrace, Sarah, and Elizabeth Adams. (Abbott in her Families of early Milford, Connecticut lists William (m. Abigail Oviatt 1698), "Freelove", Elizabeth (m. James Brisco 1699), Sarah (m. Moses Johnson 1703).[12] "Freelove" was probably a typo for "Freegrace".) So it would appear that the four youngest children of Samuel and Mehitable Adams, all unmarried, removed to Stratford together at about the same time. Finally, the executor of Freegrace's will in 1750, his "loving Cosn" Samuel Adams, may have been the son of Freegrace's brother William, of Milford.

On 16 April 1694 Samuel sold his farm in Ipswich to Walter Fairfield, including all meadow and swamp lands, except for carve-outs to his brothers John and Nathaniel. Mehitable agreed to forfeit her right of dowery as part of the sale.[13]

No Ipswich death records have been found for Samuel and Mehitable. It is possible that they removed to Connecticut with their younger children.

Sources

  1. ↑ Seversmith, Herbert, "George Norton of Salem, Massachusetts", The American Genealogist v.15 p.196 [The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1932-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) NEHGS member site
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, The Essex Antiquarian. Salem, MA: v.2 p.87-88 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006.) NEHGS member site
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Holman: Descent from William Adams of Ipswich, Mass, p.5; NEHGS digital archives NEHGS member site
  4. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. Torrey, v.1 p.11 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS member site
    • Text: ADAMS, Samuel & Mehitable NORTON; 20 Dec 1664; Ipswich {Holman Ms: Adams 5; Tingley-Meyers 7; Essex Ant. 2:88, 3:118, 141; Cross Anc. 59; TAG 15:196, 20:Supp. 3}
  5. ↑ The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1932-. v.20, pt.2, p.3 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) NEHGS member site
  6. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016) NEHGS member site
  7. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. Torrey v.2 p.1116 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS member site
    • Text: OSBORN, John & Mehitable ADDAMS (1665-); 11 Oct 1685; Ipswich {TAG 20:Supp. 3, 25; Essex Ant. 2:88; Tingley-Meyers 7}
  8. ↑ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield. v.1 p.11, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. 2 vols. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932. NEHGS member site
  9. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. Torrey, v.1 p.6 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS member site
    • Text: ADAMS, Freegrace (?1675) & Mary GALPIN; 8 Jan 1700, 1700/01?; Stratford, CT/Rye, NY/Newtown, LI {Stratford VR 1; Stratford Hist. 2:1115; Fairfield Fam. 1:12; NYGBR 49:298, 52:74; TAG 20: Supp. 3; Kimberly 24}; Reg. 102:106 (wrong)
  10. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records, Derby, p.63 (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. NEHGS member site
  11. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records, Milford, p.28 (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. NEHGS member site
  12. ↑ Abbott, Susan Woodruff, Families of early Milford, Connecticut, 1979, p. 1, viewable with Google Books snippet [1]
  13. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZZ-BSQ3?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-S68%3A361613201%2C361856001 : 22 May 2014), Essex > Deeds 1694-1697 vol 10-11 > image 46 of 516; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

Some descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, Mass., Appleton, William S. (William Sumner), 1840-1903., (David Clapp & Son, Boston MA, 1881) SAMUEL ADAMS,of Ipswich, third child of William (1), was born ——; married, 1664, Mehitable Norton, issue, Mehitable, b. 1665; Mary, b. 1667; Samutl, b. 1670; William,b. 1673; Sarah, b. 1677 page 56.

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). "George Norton"





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Pounds-77 Sandra Pounds
"parents unproven.".

as per Erica Howton DNA test results (very contemporary evidence) does not have his line matching with any other Adams line. DNA test results as of Jan 2014: [http://www.familytreedna.com/public/adams/default.aspx?section=yres... Wi

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B-404 Anne B
Adams-38704 and Adams-3480 appear to represent the same person because: Wife the same, children seem correct
posted by Anne B

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