Edith (Squire) Adams (1587 - 1672)

Born 29 May 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Adams — married 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton Mackrell ,Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1672 at age 84 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Henry Adams married Edith Squire in Charlton Mackrell church, and her sister Anne had married Aquila Purchase, an ex-Dorchester schoolmaster, a parishioner and fervent supporter of the Rev. John White. Aquila's brother was an early settler in Brunswick, Maine. The sisters Edith and Anne Squire were granddaughters of the Rev. William Squire, rector of Charlton Mackrell, to whom reference has already been made.

Baptism

Baptism: 29 MAY 1587

Christened 29 May 1587,^[1] in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England.

Immigration

Immigration:

Date: 1638

Place: ENG

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haruspex&id=I056763

* Edith Squire was born about 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England. based on baptism She was baptized on MAY 29 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England. She immigrated in 1638 to Massachusetts. She emigrated in 1638 from England. She died on JAN 21 1672/73 in Medfield, MA.

Edith SQUIRE

Father: Henry SQUIRE

Mother: UNKNOWN

Birth: ABT. 1587, Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Baptism: 29 MAY 1587, Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England

Death: 21 JAN 1673, Medfield, Massachusetts

Partnership with: Henry ADAMS, Marriage: 19 OCT 1609,^[2] Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England

Children:

1. Henry ADAMS Birth: 1610, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
2. Thomas ADAMS Birth: 1612, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
3. Jonathan ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1614, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
4. Samuel ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1617, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
5. Urusula ADAMS Birth: 1619, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
6. Peter ADAMS Birth: 1621, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England
7. John ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1622, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England
8. Joseph ADAMS Birth: 9 FEB 1626, Kings Weston, Somerset, England
9. Edward ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1629, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England

Death

Edith Fussell, wife of John, died on 21 January 1672 in Medfield, (then) Suffolk County, Mass. Bay Colony.^[3][4]

Research Notes

Without any sources/citations her middle name had been shown as Rosamund. No responses received to queries posted to her profile about this middle name; it has now been removed.

Sources

1. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58185291e93790eca3e1d73a : viewed 8 Dec 2022) baptism Edith Squire 29 May 1587
2. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581859eee93790eb7fa38a3e : viewed 8 Dec 2022) marriage Henry Adams to Edith Squire 19 Oct 1609
3. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 213

   "Fussell, Edith, w. John, Jan. 21, 1672."

   "Fussell, John, Feb. 21, 1675/6."

4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-7G4G?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-C6X%3A353350501%2C353406301%2C353426201 : 13 July 2016), Norfolk > Medfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1651-1876 > image 170 of 601; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. (Image of town record copy made in 1850)

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