James Adams

- 1707

• Name	James Adams  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Dec 1707	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I37950	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family	Priscilla Ramsdell,   b. Aft 1640
  Marriage	7 May 1662	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Hannah Adams,   b. 25 Jul 1670, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F22303	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Called by the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (citation details below) a "Scotch prisoner." Lemuel Shattuck's 1835 History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County says "He is said to have been banished from Scotland by Oliver Cromwell."

  
  

• Sources

  [S6413] Ian Watson, "The Origins of Aquila Ramsdell's Given Name: Investigation the 17th Century with Mitochondrial DNA." American Ancestors volume 18, number 2, page 54, 2017. [S6414] Roselyn Listernick, "John Ramsdell of Lynn, Massachusetts." The Essex Genealogist 10:25, 1990. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939., place only. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.