Born 17 May 1799 in Hirten, Dist. Mayen, Rhineland

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Gaeb) Adams — married 20 Apr 1830 in St Kastor Catholic Church, Dist. Mayen, Rhineland,Germany

Descendants

Died 26 Jun 1879 in Johnsburg, McHenry County, Illinois

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Biography

Nicolaus Adams migrated from Germany to United States of America.

Note: One of the three first families, early settlers' of Johnsburg, (est August 1841), McHenry County, Illinois and founders' of St John the Baptist Catholic Church. The other two families are Nicolaus Frett and Jacob Schmitt

Nicolaus Adams was born 17 May 1799 in Hirten, Dist. Mayen, Rhineland (Germany). Nicolaus was the son of Johann Peter Adams and Anna Gertrude Gilles. Nicolaus, his wife Susanna nee Gaeb and their five children left Hirten in the summer of 1841, sailed for 38 days to reach New York, arriving on 2 August 1841. They traveled from New York to Chicago by rail and from Chicago to Johnsburg, by oxen-drawn wagon, arriving in August 1841, along with Nicolaus Gaeb, brother of Susanna Adams nee Gaeb, Jacob Schmitt and his family, Nicholas Frett and his family. The Adams, Schmitt and Frett families were the first families to settle in what would become Johnsburg, and they organized the parish and church, St John the Baptist Catholic Church.

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1850: McHenry, McHenry Co., Illinois; Nicholus Adams 51 Germany; Margaret Adams 12 Germany; Mary Adams 19 Germany; Costar Adams 18 Germany; Mathias Adams 16 Germany; Peter Adams 20 Germany; (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8RQ-7H1

1860: McHenry, McHenry Co., Illinois; Mathias Adams 26 Baden Germany; Annie Adams 26 Baden Germany; Helen Adams 1 Illinois; Nicholas Adams 60 Prussia Germany; Peter Adams 20 Prussia; (https://www,familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXCS-P3D

1870 ?

Find A Grave: Memorial #76850553 Nicolaus Adams

Sources

St John the Baptist Catholic Church records, Johnsburg

Illinois Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880; Name Nicolas Adams; Event Type Death; Event Date January 1880; Event Place Illinois; Residence Place McHenry, McHenry; Age 80; Birth Year (Estimated) 1800; Birthplace Prussia; Citing this Record; "Illinois Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL91-DRQY : 16 March 2018), Nicolas Adams, death Jan 1880, Illinois, United States; citing Pub. T1133 Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Illinois, 1850-1880., Film 63, NARA microfilm publications T1133 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FamilySearch digital folder 007282688.

Added 18 January 2018:

Research on this family per Alvina Adams, was done in book form by Dorothy Kathryn Adams Greene. Nicholas Adams family ancestry book, written by Alvina Adams in 1985, a copy of this book is in the genealogy room of the McHenry Public Library in McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois

Booklet: The Immigrant Founders, Members and Associates of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, Johnsburg (est Aug 1841), McHenry County, Illinois is at the Johnsburg Public Library available to view upon request.

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