Margaret (Eames) Adams (1666 - 1734)

Born 8 Jul 1666 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Adams Sr — married 21 Feb 1687 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Wife of Daniel Dean — married 27 Dec 1705 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died May 1734 at age 67 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Margaret (Eames) Adams aka Dean was born on July 8, 1666 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay. She was the daughter of Thomas Eames and Mary (Blandford) Eames. At age 10 while her father was away the family homestead was attacked by Native Americans. Her mother and several siblings and half-siblings were killed. She and several siblings were captured and later ransomed from Canada. ^[1] She married Joseph Adams on February 21, 1687/88 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay. After he passed away, she married Lieut. Daniel Deane on December 27, 1705 in Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay. She died in May 1734 in Concord, Massachusetts Bay.

Children

Joseph and Margaret Adams had, in Cambridge:^[2][3]

• Joseph Adams, b. about 1689, died in Cambridge 1774
• Daniel/David Adams, bp. 3 Jan 1690-91, resided in the part of Concord that became Lincoln.
• Cherry Adams, born 1694, bp. 31 Jan 1696-7
• John Adams, b. 18 Apr 1697

Joseph and Margaret did NOT have a daughter Margaret. One of those previously connected to this profile, citing no sources other than a family tree, was purportedly born three years after Joseph died. The other was the daughter of a different couple, to which she is now attached.. Please do not reattach them.

Sources

1. ↑ A History of Framingham Massachusetts. Pages 24-29.
2. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Cambridge Massachusetts to the year 1850, Births, p. 11, as to John and Cherry
3. ↑ Bartlett, J. Gardner, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass. : his English ancestry and Some of his descendants, pp. 93-94

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCMB-DWL : 28 September 2017), Margarett Eames, 08 Jul 1666; citing Birth, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCSH-54F : 28 September 2017), Joseph Addams and Margaret Eames, 21 Feb 1687; citing Marriage, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
• Early VR Middlesex Co. MA (published), Vital Records of Sudbury.
• Early VR Middlesex Co. MA (published), Vital Records of Cambridge.
• Genealogy of Henry Adams, Eames-Ames Genealogy
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24399026/margaret-dean
• Barry, William. A History of Framingham Massachusetts. Boston, MA: James Munroe and Co., 1847. (https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Framingham_Massachusetts/QUIOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en)