Henry Adams

1610 - 1676  (66 years)

• Name	Henry Adams  [1, 2]
  Born	1610	Kingweston, Somerset, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Feb 1676	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I23156	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Adams,   b. Abt 1583, Barton St. David, Somerset, England ,   d. Bef 8 Oct 1646  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Edith Squire,   b. Bef 29 May 1587
  Married	19 Oct 1609	Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England   [3, 5]
  Family ID	F13935	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Payne,   b. Bef 23 Jul 1620,   d. 22 Feb 1676, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts  (Age > 55 years)
  Married	17 Nov 1643	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Henry Adams,   b. 19 Nov 1657, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Sep 1733, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts  (Age 75 years)
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2019
  Family ID	F13934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Clerk of the writs at Braintree, 4 Nov 1646. One of the founders of Medfield, from which he was representative to the General Court in 1659-1665, 1674, and 1675. Killed at his doorway in the raid on Medfield during King Philip's War, 21 Feb 1676.

  
  

• Sources

  [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S3017] Mary Lovering Holman, "Moses Paine of Braintree, Massachusetts and His Ancestry in England." The American Genealogist 21:181, 1944. [S3015] Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants by J. Gardner Bartlett. New York, 1927. [S1574] Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630, Volume 14: West Country Planters to New England, 1620-1643 by Burton W. Spear. Toledo, Ohio, 1990., year only. [S1574] Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630, Volume 14: West Country Planters to New England, 1620-1643 by Burton W. Spear. Toledo, Ohio, 1990.