Elizabeth (Paine) Adams (bef. 1620 - 1676)

Born before 1620 in Tenterden, Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Adams — married 17 Oct 1643 in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1676 after age 56 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elizabeth (Paine) Adams immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

ELIZABETH Paine, was born in England to Moses and Elizabeth Shaefe Paine/Payne, likely shortly before she was baptized in St. Mildred's Church at Tenterden on 23 July 1620.^[1][2][3]

Elizabeth emigrated to Massachusetts Bay, along with her father and her brothers Moses and Stephen, in 1638 on the ship The Castle. They settled in Braintree.^[2]

Elizabeth Paine married Oct. 17, 1643^[4] to Henry Adams, of Medfield, Mass., who was also born in the old country, about 1604, and came early to N. E., with his father and a large family of brothers. Their marriage was first recorded in Braintree Records.

Henry and Elizabeth Adams had the following children:^[5]

Eleazer Adams (in), born at Braintree Aug. 5, 1644. Jasper Adams (111), born at Braintree June 23, 1647; died unmarried. Elizabeth Adams (m), born Nov. 11, 1649.

The following were born at Medfield: "John Adams (in), born July 14, 1652; Twins; died young. Henry Adams (in), born July 14, 1652;" Moses Adams (in), born Oct. 25, 1654. Henry Adams (m), .born Nov. 19, 1657; married 1684, Lydia Whiting. Samuel Adams (1h), born Dec. 10, 1661; died young.

Elizabeth Adams, w. Henrie, "accidentally slaine by a bullet," Feb. 22, 1675-6, in Medfield, Massachusetts^[6]

Both Adams and his wife Elizabeth Paine, met with tragic deaths, in the second year of King Philip's war, as is narrated at length in several histories of that eventful period. Adams himself, who was lieutenant of the town, was killed at his own door by a shot from the hostile Indians, Feb. 21, 1676. The following account of the fatal casualty that befell his wife, is taken from Gookin's Praying Indians. "The same night, the lieutenant's widow, being at Mr. Wilson, the minister's house, being upon a bed in the chamber, divers soldiers and commanders being in the room underneath, Capt. Jacob having a gun in his hand, half bent, with the muzzle upwards, he being taking his leave to go to his quarters, by some accident the gun fired and shot through floor, mat and bed of the lieutenant's widow and slew her also." Though mortally wounded, she survived a week after the injury.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism Record : Kent : Tenterden : St Mildred : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58185eb2e93790ec8b4a0337 : viewed 25 Nov 2022) baptism Elizabeth Paine 23 Jul 1620
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 21 (1944), pages 187-189.
3. ↑ Clara May (Paine) Ohler, Ancestors and descendants of David Paine and Abigail Shepard of Ludlow, Mass., 1463-1913. Lima, Ohio 1913. An Archive.org book CMPOhler p. 23, 35-38
4. ↑ Records of the town of Braintree, 1640-1793 by Braintree (Mass.); Bates, Samuel Austin, 1822-1897,(original text ;Henry Adames and Elizabeth Paine were married the seventeen day of the eighth month 1643 (17) D 8) m) https://archive.org/details/cu31924025963665/page/628/mode/2up?q=Born+
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Payne Family Records, HD Paine's Vol 1, 1879, Braintree Branch.
6. ↑ Medfield. Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7746/189/142549361

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• Rev. Hiram Francis Fairbanks, "English Ancestry of Henry Adams of Braintree" New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume. 59, Number 3 (July 1905), pages 320-322. New England Historic Genealogical Society (99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 02116) http://www.AmericanAncestors.org
• Thomas W Baldwin, Vital records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : Stanhope Press, F.H. Gilson Co., 1911) New England Historic Genealogical Society (99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116, USA) http://www.americanancestors.org https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsh1911sher
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