Adams Preston (1801 - 1878)

Born 16 Jun 1801 in Rumney Twp, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

Ancestors

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Biography

Adams was born in 1801. He is the son of William Preston and Elizabeth Clark. ^[1]

New-Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette
February 26, 1827
MARRIAGES ...
In Wentworth, by Hon. Caleb Keith, Mr. Adams Preston to Miss Jane Parkinson ...

Adams was an an attorney and a merchant. He was the town clerk of Bradford, Vermont for seven years, and a Justce of the Peace for fifteen. Oil portraits were made ca1835 of both Adams Preston and his wife Jane (Parkinson) Preston. At the time the portraits were cataloged (Smithsonian), they were privately held by descendants of Adams’ brother, Washington.

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Dr. Bill Smith, Monday, July 14, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

See also:

• Silas McKeen, A history of Bradford, Vermont : containing some account of the place of its first settlement in 1765 ... (Montpelier, Vt. : J. D. Clark & son, 1875), 380-381 (Adams Preston, Esq.); digital images, InternetArchive.
• Adams Preston (1801-1878), memorial 196523902 and gravestone image; web content, FindAGrave, memorial maintained by Barb Destomp; gravestone image added by Barb Destromp.
• Jane Parkinson Preston (1797-1874), memorial 196523908 and gravestone image; web content, FindAGrave, memorial maintained by Barb Destomp; gravestone image added by Barb Destromp.
• Town of Bradford, Vermont (172 N. Main Street, Bradford, Vermont 05033) to compiler, information supplied telephonically by Marianne McClure, Town Clerk, 16 October 2008, for Adams Preston and wife, Jane, Adams Preston's death not reported at Bradford; death of wife Jane reported there 3 March 1874, Marianne consulted separately text cited as Arthur Hyde, Bradford, Vermont Burials, 1770-1997 (publication date unknown, but Hyde survives and lives at Bradford), reports Adams Preston and wife Jane buried at Upper Plains Cemetery in Bradford; reports Adams died 16 March 1878; Marianne comments, “he must have died elsewhere and was brought back to Bradford for burial.” Separately consulted, Arthur Hyde, by telephone interview, confirming both the entries for Adams and Jane in the text he authored and to learn there were no other known cemetery records available; his material developed from tombstone readings.
• Arthur Hyde (Bradford, Vermont), interview by compiler (telephonic), 20 October 2008; file memorandum, privately held by compiler, Arizona, 2008, Arthur knows of no other cemetery records that might call out more information about the location of Adams Preston's death, but he and his wife Jane are both buried at Upper Plains Cemetery.
• "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLPM-64S : Thu Oct 05 01:02:55 UTC 2023), Adams Preston birth, 16 June 1801.