William Adams (abt. 1620 - bef. 1659)

Born about 1620 in England

Husband of Elizabeth (Stacy) Adams — married 1648 in Salisbury, MA

Descendants

Died before 29 Mar 1659 before about age 39 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

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

Another source gives the place of birth as Shropshire and the year as about 1625. His date of Death: Administration on the estate of William Addams, jr. of Ipswich, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to William Addams, his father, and John Addams, his brother. His father William died 1661 See also: Ipswich VR. ]

Research Notes

In the entry for his father in the Great Migration Directory: Adams, William: Unknown; 1635; Cambridge, Ipswich [GM 2:1:13-14; MBCR 1:375; NEQ 82:136-69; Essex Ant 2:87]. (His son William came to New England in 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann [GM 2:1:13]. The New England Quarterly article cited here connects, corrects and amplifies these two Great Migration sketches.)

Sources

• History and Genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts: His English Ancestors and American Descendants,Blaine Whipple Trafford, 2003, p 67; lists a reference under #7 in the Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, Vol 1:74 and Vol 5:56, that John Whipple and Thomas Stace being appointed overseers for the children of William Adams Jr. of Ipswich, lists Elizabeth Stacey as his wife,children Simon, John and William (III).

• Some descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, Mass. by W.S. Appleton, 1840-1903

• Virkus, Frederick Adams, "Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750" ((Chicago:IL, The Institute of American Genealogy, 1929); (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. 75p. Repr. 1986)), p. 18.

• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 58, 1904. Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.

• Tingley, Raymon. Some Ancestral Lines, Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers
• Manuscript, [ Hugh D. Miller, comp. ], Genealogy: Ethel P. Miller/Hugh D. Miller, 1985, copy in possession of Barbara M
• Findagrave memorial http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33538841 For birth and death years and marriage to Elizabeth Stacey. He is listed as William Adams, Jr.
• Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700|Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700]] (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)
• Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988|Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• Vital records of Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, deaths page 477, ADDAMS, William, _____, 1661. CT.R.

• ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, PROBATE RECORDS, William Adams, Mar 1662, Ipswich, inv, test, II:371

• William Bradford of the Mayflower, and His Descendants for Four Generations, Robert S. Wakefield & Lee D. van Antwerp, Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1988

• A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England John Farmer, Lancaster MA: Carter, Andrews & Co., 1829

• The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, MA: 1897-1909, Page: 2:86-88

• Founders of Early American Families - Emigrants from Europ e 1607-1687, Meredith Colket, Cleveland OH: The General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1985