Ancestry of
Emily Dickinson

American Poet

Henry Adams Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Emily Dickinson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 220 
  • Father:
  • Henry Adams 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1604 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1676 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Oct 1643 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Moses Adams

  Henry Adams (Ahnentafel No:110 )

  • Notes: 

  • Published sources disagree on whether Henry Adams married Elizabeth Paine in Braintree, Dedham, or Medfield.

• Sources for Henry Adams Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, pp. 11-12, Birth records for children of Henry and Elisabeth Adams.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1853, Vol. 7, p. 41.
  • ³ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 7, Marriage record for Henry Adams and Elizabeth Paine.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1944, Vol. 21, p. 189.
  • ⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 545.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 203.
  • ⁷ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 5.