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William Adams

Male Abt 1620 - 1659  (~ 39 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William Adams was born about 1620; died in Jan 1659 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 18 Jan 1659, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

    Notes:

    He came to New England in 1635 on the William and Anne. In volume 1 of The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (1999), page 13, Robert Charles Anderson notes that “Savage suggests that this passenger was son of William Adams of Ipswich, but this seems only a guess.” But later, in his Great Migration Directory (2015), Anderson says that Robert Strong's 2009 article “Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives from Ipswich” “connects, corrects, and amplifies” the Great Migration sketches of the two William Adamses, and acknowledges that this William Adams was the son of William Adams of Ipswich.

    “Housed in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) are two unusual, perhaps unique, seventeenth-century religious narratives: one by William Adams, and the other by his wife, Elisabeth. As a poet, I was particularly drawn to the narratives’ vivid relation of the Adamses’ struggles to surmount the challenges, both spiritual and material, that they encountered in the New World, struggles so intense that at one point William fears that he might ‘cut the throat of my own soul.’ To date, the most thoroughgoing primary source for seventeenth-century lay religious narratives is the series of ‘confessions’ recorded by minister Thomas Shepard. Until now, the Adams narratives have been available only to those few scholars who possess the expertise to dissect the manuscripts’ crabbed texts. So that readers with interests as diverse as religious history, social history, literary history, and poetics may explore the extraordinary and distinctive riches that lay within these early American autobiographies, I offer them to the public, with the gracious permission of the MHS, in their first printed edition.” [--Robert Strong, beginning his introduction to "Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives from Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony,” New England Quarterly 82:136, March 2009.]

    William married Elizabeth Stacy between 1647 and 1649 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Simon Stacy and Elizabeth Clarke) was born in 1624 in Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England; died on 2 Apr 1655 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Rev. William Adams  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 May 1650 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 17 Aug 1685 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rev. William Adams Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) was born on 27 May 1650 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 17 Aug 1685 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

    Notes:

    Graduated from Harvard in 1671 as a bachelor of arts. It was said “he came from thence with the esteem and respect of his teachers, and with a character for integrity, learning and piety that gave promise of future usefulness.” Ordained 3 Dec 1673, becoming the second pastor at Dedham. He later received his M.A. from Harvard as well.

    William married Alice Bradford on 29 Mar 1680 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Alice (daughter of William Bradford and Alice Richards) was born about 1659 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 15 Mar 1746 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Elizabeth Adams  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 Feb 1681 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 21 Dec 1766 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
    2. 4. Alice Adams  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Apr 1682 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 19 Feb 1735 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Elizabeth Adams Descendancy chart to this point (2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 23 Feb 1681 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 21 Dec 1766 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 21 Feb 1681, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts

    Notes:

    She was able to say, and proud to say, that she had "at one time sixteen sons and grandsons commissioned officers in the French War."

    Elizabeth married Rev. Samuel Whiting on 14 Sep 1696 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Rev. John Whiting and Sibyl Collins) was born on 24 Apr 1670 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 24 Apr 1670 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 27 Sep 1725 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Ann Whiting  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 2 Jan 1698 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; was christened on 15 May 1698; died on 18 Sep 1778 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; was buried in Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
    2. 6. Col. William Whiting  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Jan 1704 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 25 May 1787 in Bozrah, New London, Connecticut.

  2. 4.  Alice Adams Descendancy chart to this point (2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 3 Apr 1682 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 19 Feb 1735 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

    Alice married Rev. Nathaniel Collins on 7 Jan 1701 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of Rev. Nathaniel Collins and Mary Whiting) was born on 13 Jun 1677 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was christened on 17 Jun 1677 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 31 Dec 1756 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Ann Collins  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Dec 1702 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 18 Sep 1778 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
    2. 8. Alice Collins  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Mar 1716 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried after 8 Nov 1757.


Generation: 4

  1. 5.  Ann Whiting Descendancy chart to this point (3.Elizabeth3, 2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 2 Jan 1698 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; was christened on 15 May 1698; died on 18 Sep 1778 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; was buried in Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 23 Feb 1778, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
    • Alternate death: 23 Sep 1778, Windham, Windham, Connecticut

    Ann married Joseph Fitch on 29 Dec 1721 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Rev. James Fitch and Priscilla Mason) was born in Nov 1681 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 May 1741 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Anna Fitch  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Jul 1737 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1813 in Fort Ann, Washington, New York; was buried in Otis Cemetery, Fort Ann, Washington, New York.

  2. 6.  Col. William Whiting Descendancy chart to this point (3.Elizabeth3, 2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 22 Jan 1704 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 25 May 1787 in Bozrah, New London, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    His was a colonel in the provincial army, and distinguished himself at the siege of Louisbourg and at the battle of Lake George.

    William married Anna Raymond on 5 Mar 1724 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Joshua Raymond and Mercy Sands) was born in 1701 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 26 Nov 1773 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Dr. William Whiting  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Apr 1731 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 8 Dec 1792 in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts.

  3. 7.  Ann Collins Descendancy chart to this point (4.Alice3, 2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 20 Dec 1702 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 18 Sep 1778 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 10 Sep 1778

    Ann married Ephraim Terry on 13 Sep 1723 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Ephraim (son of Samuel Terry and Martha Boardman) was born on 24 Oct 1701 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 14 Oct 1783 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Samuel Terry  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Oct 1725 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 8 May 1798 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

  4. 8.  Alice Collins Descendancy chart to this point (4.Alice3, 2.William2, 1.William1) was born on 14 Mar 1716 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried after 8 Nov 1757.

    Alice married Nathaniel Parsons on 15 Jan 1736 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of Philip Parsons and Anna) was born on 15 Mar 1710 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died after 27 Mar 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Edward Parsons  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Apr 1745 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.