Ancestry of
John Adams

(1695–1762)

John Adams

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Michal Blois   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Dec 1695 
  • Birth Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1762 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 

• Marriages for John Adams

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Cleveland
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 7 Nov 1741
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for John Adams

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth records for children of John and Abigail Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/22/2024).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 11, Birth record for John Adams.
  • 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), 314.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 171.
  • ⁶ Whittemore, Henry, History of the Adams Family with Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Descendants . . ., New York: Willis McDonald and Co., Publishers (1893), 16, gives parents as Henry Adams and Patience Ellis.