Adam Hemenway

• Name	Adam Hemenway  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I38388	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AW
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2022

  
  

  Family	Lydia Rice,   b. 9 Jun 1746, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 3 Mar 1826, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	21 Apr 1772  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Phinehas Hemenway,   b. 6 May 1774, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 21 Dec 1850, Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F22547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Newton Genealogy says, evidently incorrectly, that Adam Hemenway "died without children." The birth record of Phineas Hemenway, born in Worcester two years after Adam Hemenway's marriage to Lydia Rice, identifies his parents as Adam and Lydia Hemenway. That said, while we find it very likely that this Adam was a member of the extensive Hemenway/Heminway/Hemingway family, we have been unable to find proof of his parentage. He is identified on some online sources as a son of Jonathan Hemenway (1712-1757) and his wife Mary Foster (b. 1721), and in other places as a son of one Ebenezer Hemenway, but all without proof.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2717] Massachusetts births and christenings, 1639-1915, on familysearch.org. [S5394] A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice by Andrew Henshaw Ward. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858. [S6640] Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical, Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1638 by Ermina Newton Leonard. De Pere, Wisconsin: Bernard Ammidown Leonard, 1915.