Ancestry of
Samuel Adams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

John Adams

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• • Grandfather of Samuel Adams — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Baxter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1662 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Nov 1702 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Webb
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1685 
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  Samuel Adams (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  John Adams

  • Notes: 
  • Capt. John Adams died of smallpox.

• Additional marriages for John Adams

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Checkley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1694

• Sources for John Adams

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Deaths, 1700-1799, Death record for John Adams, Page 136.
  • ² Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, Cemetery record for John Adams, Page 522.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 203.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1854, Vol. 8, Page 283.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, pp. 21-25.
  • ⁶ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants; also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company (1898), 392, 395-396.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139.
  • ⁸ Vinton, John Adams, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison . . ., Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son (1864), 500.