Isaac Adams (1698 - 1763)

Born 30 Jan 1698 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Died 24 Nov 1763 at age 65 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Isaac, fourth child of John and Michael (Bloice) Adams, was born in Medfield, Massachusetts, January 30, 1697-98. ^[1]

He was of Canaan, Connecticut. June 28, 1751, he bought land and settled at Salisbury, Connecticut, which land he later deeded to his son Jeremiah. In January, 1752, he deeded to his brother, Captain John, all his right and interest in his father's estate. He died in Salisbury, November 24, 1763. He married February 17, 1728, Zerviah Brown, of Canterbury, Connecticut, who died in Salisbury, July 20, 1787, aged seventy-five years.

Children:

1. Phineas, married Elizabeth Selleck; he was the executor of his father's will; he died January 7, 1779.
2. Joshua, see forward.
3. Jeremiah, removed to Poultney, Vermont; served in Captain Zebediah Dewey's company in March and October, 1780, and in 1781 in Captain Abraham Moseley's company; he died in Hampton, Washington county, New York, May 23, 1816, aged eighty-four years.

He passed away in 1757.

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfiedl, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 11:"Isaac, s. John & Mica(torn)

• Henry Adams of Braintree Descendants - Generation IV - Part I
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 February 2021), memorial page for Isaac Adams (1698–26 Nov 1763), Find A Grave: Memorial #166380947, citing Center Cemetery, Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Charlene Adams (contributor 47144846) .
• Rudd, Malcolm Day. Inscriptions at Salisbury Center, Lime Rock, etc. (D. Clapp & Son, Boston, 1898)

• Page 5: "Adams, Mr. Isaac, d. Nov. 26, 1763, in the 65th year of his age."

• "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
• Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut; The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions
• Reynolds, Cuyler Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1911), Volume 4, page 1508