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Joseph Adams

Male 1626 - 1694  (68 years)


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  • Name Joseph Adams  [1, 2
    Birth 1626  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Dec 1694  Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Siblings 3 siblings 
    Person ID I40641  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Father Henry Adams,   b. Bef 1584, Barton St. David, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 Oct 1646 (Age < 62 years) 
    Mother Edith Squire,   b. Bef 29 May 1587   d. 21 Jan 1673, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 85 years) 
    Marriage 19 Oct 1609  Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Family ID F13935  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail Baxter,   b. Sep 1634, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1692 (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Marriage 29 Nov 1650  [2
    Children 
    +1. Abigail Adams,   b. 27 Feb 1658   d. Bef 1698 (Age < 39 years)
    Family ID F23807  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

  • Notes 
    • He was a maltster, and a selectman in Braintree several times.


      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 
    1. [S7522] Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass and Emma Lee Walton. Freeport, Illinois, 1940.

    2. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    3. [S2945] The Vinton Memorial: Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn by John Adams Vinton. Boston: S. K. Whipple and Company, 1858.

    4. [S3015] Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants by J. Gardner Bartlett. New York, 1927.

    5. [S1574] Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630 by Burton W. Spear. 27 volumes. Toledo, Ohio, 1985-1992.

    6. [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.

    7. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024.