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Newdigate Adams (1753 - 1798)

Newdigate "Nudigate Newtigate" Adams
Born in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Islandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and [mother unknown]
Brother of [half], [half] and [half]
Husband of — married about 1775 in Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Islandmap
[children unknown]
Died at age 44 in Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Islandmap
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Biography

Nudigate was born in 1753 at Warren, Rhode Island, the son of John Adams and his third wife Elizabeth (Westgate) _____.[1][2]

He married Frances Low at Barrington in 1775.[3]Their children were John, Newdigate/Nudigate, Rachel, Samuel, Ebenezer, Joseph and Nathaniel Adams

Newdigate passed away in 1798 and is buried at Prince's Hill Burial Ground at Barrington.[4]

Research Notes

One researcher has suggested that Nudigate's mother was Elizabeth Nudigate baptized 1716, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Lynde) Newdigate.

Nudigate appears as head of household in Barrington in the 1774 census of Rhode Island[5]. His household distribution and inferred attributions are

  • one white male over 16: Newdigate
  • one white male under 16: unknown
  • three white females over 16: sisters Chloe and Sarah and mother Elizabeth
  • one black male over 16: perhaps Cuff Adams, an enslaved man[6]

Sources

  1. ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Births, Page 43
  2. ↑ Pizziferri, page 150 -- "Newdigate -- the Son of John Adams and Elizabeth the Second his wife was Born June ye 13th day A.D. 1753"
  3. ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Barrington Marriages, Page 5
  4. ↑ Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission, gravestone image online
  5. ↑ 1774 Census
  6. ↑ History of Barrington: Page 403
  • Pizziferri, Shirley M. Documentation files -- Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants" in The Mayflower Descendants 41 (1991).
  • 1774 Rhode Island Census, Barrington, Page 1, Entry 12 -- Nudigate Adams; citing transcription by Annie Austin in Rhode Island Roots 33 p.90, June 2007.




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Patricia (Long) Kent
I too have seen evidence that John Adam's third wife was Elizabeth Newdigate, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Lynde) Newdigate. Elizabeth may have married first a Westgate, as she would have been 35 when she married John Adams, which would have been late for a first marriage.
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