Joseph Adams Sr (abt. 1664 - 1701)

Born about 1664 in Menotomy, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Eames) Adams — married 21 Feb 1687 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1701 at about age 37 in Arlington, Menotomy, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Joseph ADAMS was about 1664 in Menotomy, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony^{[1] [2]} He was christened before 1659 (noted as already baptized when records began at First Church, Cambridge, Massachussets.) He was the son of Joseph ADAMS, b. 9 February 1626, Kingsweston, Somersetshire, England, d. 6 December 1694, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and Anna Or Anne HOWE, b. 1622/1627, Kings Weston, St. David, Somerset, England, d. 1714, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony ^[3]

Marriage

Joseph Addams married Margaret Eames, (b. 8 July 1666, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. May 1734) on 21 February 1687/1688, in Cambridge, Middlesex County, MassachusettsBay Colony

Death and Probate

Joseph Adams died on 20 July 1701 in Cambridge.^[4] He died intestate. Letters of Administration were granted to his widow Margaret on 11 August 1701; her sons Daniel (script could be read as David) and John, and John Jackson, stood bond. The inventory totalled L.100. ^[5]

Children

Joseph and Margaret Adams had, in Cambridge:^[6][7][3][8]

• Abigail, b. perhaps December 1688, m. John Robbins 9 April 1705, at age 16
• Joseph Adams, b. about 1689, died in Cambridge 1774
• Daniel Adams, baptized. 3 January 1690-91, resided in the part of Concord that became Lincoln, married 1. Elizabeth Minot, then 2. Hanna Benney.
• Cherry Adams, born 1694, baptized 31 January 1696-7
• John Adams, b. 18 April 1697

Joseph and Margaret did NOT have a daughter Margaret. One of those previously connected to this profile, citing no sources other than a family tree, was purportedly born three years after Joseph died. The other was the daughter of a different couple, to which she is now attached.. Please do not reattach them.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., and his Descendants
2. ↑ not recorded in Cambridge vital records
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} J. Gardner Bartlett, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Massachusetts : His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants (New York, 1927), pp 93-94
4. ↑ Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusetts to the year 1850], Deaths, p. 448:"Addams"
5. ↑ Middlesex County, Massachusetts: 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 images provided by FamilySearch.org)
6. ↑ Birth order revised from the following sources, to estimate a birth date for Abigail early enough for her to be married in 1705
7. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusetts to the year 1850, Births, p. 11, as to John and Cherry
8. ↑ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Massachusetts, and His Descendants; also John Adams, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1632-1897, p. 961

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXF-1LS : 4 December 2014), Joseph Adams, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 496,864.