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Joseph Adams Sr. (1625-1694) was the great-grandfather of John Adams Jr., 2nd President of the United States, and the great-great-grandfather of President John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States,

Biography

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

This profile is part of the Adams Name Study.

Joseph Adams was born in 1626 in England.^[1] son of Henry Adams and Edith Squire. ^[2] [1]

He married Abigail Baxter, daughter of Gregory and Margaret (Paddy) Baxter on 26 November 1650 at Braintee, Massachusetts.^{[1] [3]}

He was a maltster by trade, made a Freeman of the Colony on 18 May 1653 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the Selectman in 1673.^[1]

Joseph Adams died on 6 December 1694 in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony^{[1] [4]}

He was the father of twelve children with one wife Abigail Baxter. John Adams and Mary Adams died young. (Two later children who lived were named for John and Mary.)^[5]

NEHGR, Vol. 12/349 "Early Records of Boston" by Wm. Trask Joseph Adams & Abigail Baxter m. 26:9:50 18 p. 48 John Adams of Joseph & Abigail d. 27:11:56 vol. 13/213 Abigail of Joseph & Abigail b. 27:11'56 vol 36/48 Henry Adams of Joseph & Abigail 13th, 9 mo. 1652 p.49 Other children of above Joseph - 24(10)1654 John - 11 mo (12) 1656

Notes

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Andrew N. Adams. A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Massachusetts And His Descendants, also, John Adams, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1632-1897. 1898. The Tuttle company printers in Rutland, Vermont. p. 7, 393. ANAdams
2. ↑ North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, p viii
3. ↑ Sprague: Page: 16, 434
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36203746
5. ↑ Cutter: Pg.2167
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families Of Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 1640-1850. Including the ymodern town of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792/3... Pages 14, 15. (New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2001) Electronic Version

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• American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, Connecticut
• Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II Ancestry.com - Online publication - Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Original data - Ellery Bicknell Crane, ed. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society
• Clemens, William Montgomery, American Marriages Before 1699 (Pompton Lakes, New Jersey: Biblio Co., 1926)
• Pilgrim Notes and Queries (Boston, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1913) v1, p 51
• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis Historical Publishing Company - Boston, Massachusetts 1908)
• Bates, Samuel. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Daniel H. Huxford, Randolph, Massachusetts, 1886) Page 629