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Linda Hamilton

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John Adams

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Linda Hamilton — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 410 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Cleveland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Feb 1744/1745 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Dec 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Parker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Polly Adams (Ahnentafel No:205 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Additional marriages for John Adams

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah Fassett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1802

• Sources for John Adams

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth record for daughter Mary Adams.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth record for John Adams.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/22/2024).
  • ⁴ 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), 317-318, 323-324.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ 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), 91.
  • ⁷ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Marriage record for John Adams Jr and Mary Parker.
  • ⁸ 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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