Henry Adams

Bef 1584 - Bef 1646  (< 62 years)

• Name	Henry Adams  [1, 2, 3]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1583	Barton St. David, Somerset, England   [4, 5, 6]
  Birth	Bef 1584	Barton St. David, Somerset, England   [7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 8 Oct 1646  [4, 6, 7]
  Burial	8 Oct 1646	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [4, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I23158	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	John Adams,   b. Abt 1555   d. Bef 22 Mar 1604 (Age < 49 years)
  Mother	Agnes   d. Bef 15 Jan 1616
  Marriage	Abt 1576  [4]
  Family ID	F13941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edith Squire,   b. Bef 29 May 1587   d. 21 Jan 1673, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 85 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1609	Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Henry Adams,   b. Abt 1610, Kingweston, Somerset, England d. 21 Feb 1676, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 66 years) + 2. Thomas Adams,   b. Bef 25 Mar 1612   d. 20 Jul 1688, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 76 years) + 3. Jonathan Adams,   b. Abt 1614   d. 28 Jul 1690, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 76 years) + 4. Capt. Samuel Adams,   b. Abt 1617   d. 24 Jan 1689, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 72 years) + 5. Joseph Adams,   b. 1626, England d. 6 Dec 1694, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 68 years) + 6. Edward Adams,   b. Bef 19 Apr 1629   d. 12 Nov 1716, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 87 years)
  Family ID	F13935	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1638, and while his first residence is unknown, he was at Braintree by 1640. He was literate and owned books. Henry Adams (1583-1646) = Edith Squire (1587-1673) Joseph Adams (1626-1694) = Abigail Baxter (1634-1692) Joseph Adams (1654-1737) = Hannah Bass John Adams (1691-1761) = Susanna Boylston John Adams, 2nd US President (1735-1826) = Abigail Smith John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1767-1848) = Louisa C. Johnson Charles Francis Adams, writer, politician, diplomat* (1807-1886) = Abigail Brown Brooks Henry Adams, historian (1838-1918) * Who, in the course of his duties as Lincoln's ambassador to the Court of St. James, briefly corresponded with Karl Marx.

  
  

• 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. [S8252] Clifford L. Stott, "The English Origin of James1 Penniman, of Boston and Braintree, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist71:12, 1996. [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913. [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 by Burton W. Spear. 27 volumes. Toledo, Ohio, 1985-1992. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024.