Ancestry of
Dick Cheney

46th U.S. Vice-President

Archelaus Adams

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Dick Cheney — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 262 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1673 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 24 May 1753 to 27 Sep 1753 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Coker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Mar 1697/1698 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Adams (Ahnentafel No:131 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some older sources incorrectly give Archelaus Adams's parents as Robert and Eleanor Adams.

• Additional marriages for Archelaus Adams

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Green
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1719

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Pearson

• Sources for Archelaus Adams

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 87-89.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Adams.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 8, Marriage record for Archelaus Adams and widow Sarah March.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1857, Vol. 11, pp. 53, 55-56.
  • ⁵ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 5, Marriage record for Archelaus Adams and Sarah Coker.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 514-515.