Ancestry of
Charles Curtis

31st U.S. Vice-President

Mercy Adams

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Charles Curtis — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 45 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Gillett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Feb 1708/1709 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jan 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sheffield Plain Cemetery, Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • David Clark
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Mar 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Clark Jr. (Ahnentafel No:22 )

  • Notes: 

  • Although the Robert Adams genealogy produced by Andrew Napolean Adams in 1900 mentions a Mercy Adams who married a “Ethan David Clark,” he does not claim that she was the daughter of Jacob Adams although he puts her in the footnotes as though suggesting the possibility. However he suggests the possibility of this Mercy Adams being the wife of Thomas Savary when he asks it as a question. However a transcription of the Sheffield Vital Records for David Clark and Mercy Adams's family state that Mercy was the daughter of Jacob Adams. Unless other evidence appears, the most likely scenario seems that the Mercy Adams who married David Clark is the daughter of Jacob Adams.

• Sources for Mercy Adams

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/04/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sheffield, Vol. 1, p. 39, Marriage record for David Clark and Mercy Adams.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sheffield, Vol. 1, p. 39, Death record for Mercy Clark.
  • ⁴ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and his Descendants 1635-1900, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1900), 17.