Ancestry of
Linda Hamilton

TV and Movie Actress

Polly Adams

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Linda Hamilton — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 205 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Parker   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Mar 1832 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hyde Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Isaac Morgan Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Sep 1797 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Adams Morgan (Ahnentafel No:102 )

  • Notes: 

  • Polly Adams's given name is also seen as Mary.

• Sources for Polly Adams

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth record for Polly Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/22/2024).
  • 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), 323.
  • ⁴ Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 83.
  • ⁵ Morgan, Nathaniel H., Morgan Genealogy: A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and His Descendants; From 1607 to 1869, Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1869), 47, 91.
  • ⁶ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 16.

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