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Samuel Adams

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Samuel Adams

Signer of the Declaration of Independence


    Joseph Adams

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    • Great-grandfather of Samuel Adams — 4th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 9 Feb 1626 
    • Birth Location:
    • Kingweston, Somerset, England 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 6 Dec 1694 
    • Death Location:
    • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 2 Nov 1650 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Hannah Adams

      Joseph Adams

      Abigail Adams

      John Adams (Ahnentafel No:4 )

      Mary Adams

      Bethiah Adams

      Mary Adams

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  • Sources for Joseph Adams

    • 3 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 203.
    • 4 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
    • 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), 7.
    • 8 Bates, Samuel A., ed., Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, Randolph, MA: Daniel H. Huxford (1886), 660.
    • 9 Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 22.
    • 10 Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 4, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 109.
    • 11 Lancaster, Daniel, The History of Gilmanton, Embracing the Propietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical . . ., Gilmanton: Printed by Alfred Prescott (1845), 255.
    • 13 McCullough, David, John Adams, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001), 29.
    • 16 Seward, William H., Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan (1856), 18.
    • 17 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), 502.
    • 18 Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 5.