Born in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jonathan Adams
and Dorcas (Mason) Adams
Sister of
Isaac Adams and Kezia (Adams) Johnson
Wife of
John Fisher
— married
9 Dec 1736 in Medway, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province
Descendants 
Mother of
Abigail (Fisher) Burrage, Lois (Fisher) Lovell, Kezia (Fisher) Clark, Dorcas (Fisher) Harding, John Fisher II and Silence Fisher
Died
at age 89
in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Nov 2017
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Biography
Dorcas was born to Jonathan and Dorcas Mason Adams in Medway on Dec. 24, 1717, [1]
Dorcas Adams married John Fisher in Medway on Dec. 9, 1736[2]
John and Dorcas had, in Medfield:[3]
- Abigail, b. Oct, 17, 1737. m. Thomas Burrage of Dedham in 1768
- Lois, b. May 2, 1739, m. David Lovell, before 1766[4]
- Kezia, b. Sept. 8, 1742, married David Clark, before 1769[5]
- Dorcas, b. Apr. 26, 1745, married Nathan Harding, Dec. 8, 1768
- John, b. Nov. 21, 1748, m. Mary Clark, Mar. 5, 1771, died May 7, 1790
- Silence, b. May 29, 1755, died the same day
Death
Dorcas died a widow in Medfield on June 15, 1807[6]
Sources
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 11: "Dorcus", d. of "Dorcus"
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 140
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p. 51-52, 167-169, 211-212
- ↑ Tilden, William S., History of the Town of Medfield (Boston: 1887,Geo. H Ellis, Publishers), page 426. This marriage not found (yet) in vital records of Medfield or Medway
- ↑ Tilden, William S., History of the Town of Medfield (Boston: 1887,Geo. H Ellis, Publishers), page 357. This marriage not found (yet) in vital records of Medfield or Medway
- ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, p.211
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