Ancestry of
John Quincy Adams

6th U.S. President

Joseph Adams Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of John Quincy Adams — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Baxter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Dec 1654 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Feb 1736 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Bass
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Feb 1687/1688 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Adams

  John Adams (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Samuel Adams

  Josiah Adams

  Hannah Adams

  Ruth Adams

  Bethia Adams

  Ebenezer Adams

• Additional marriages for Joseph Adams Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Chapin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Feb 1682
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -

• Sources for Joseph Adams Jr.

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Vol. 1, Page 54, Birth record for son Samuel Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/31/2012).
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 315.
  • ⁵ 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), 22-23.
  • ⁶ Lancaster, Daniel, The History of Gilmanton, Embracing the Propietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical . . ., Gilmanton: Printed by Alfred Prescott (1845), 255.
  • ⁷ Little, George Thomas, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1909), 1309.
  • ⁸ McCullough, David, John Adams, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001), 29-30.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 1, 214, 234, 306, 672.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 432, 465, 467.
  • ¹² Seward, William H., Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan (1856), 18.
  • ¹³ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 47, 142-143.