Ancestry of
John Dewey

Philosopher and Education Reformer

Henry Adams

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Dewey — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 364 
  • Father:
  • John Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jan 1582/1583 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barton St. David, Somerset, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Oct 1646 
  • Death Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edith Squire
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1609 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Peter Adams

  John Adams

  Joseph Adams

  Edward Adams

  Samuel Adams (Ahnentafel No:182 )

  Ursula Adams

• Additional marriages for Henry Adams

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• Sources for Henry Adams

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, Spring 2010, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 49-50.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/31/2012).
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 203.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1853, Vol. 7, p. 35.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1924, Vol. 78, p. 437.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1993, Vol. 68, p. 145.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 18.
  • ⁹ The American Genealogist, 1996, Vol. 71, p. 16.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 1-4.
  • ¹¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1528.
  • ¹² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 2.
  • ¹³ Bartlet, J. Gardiner, Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Massachusetts: His English Ancestry and Some of his Descendants, New York: Privately printed (1927), 46-83.
  • ¹⁴ Fairbanks, Rev. Hiram Francis, "English Ancestry of Henry Adams of Braintree", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 59 (1905), 322.
  • ¹⁵ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 329.
  • ¹⁶ Little, George Thomas, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1909), 1308.
  • ¹⁷ McCullough, David, John Adams, New York: Simon & Schuster (2001), 29.
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).
  • ¹⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139, 203.
  • ²⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 52.
  • ²¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 432.
  • ²² Seward, William H., Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan (1856), 17-18.
  • ²³ Streeter, Milford B., A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Stephen and Ursula Streeter of Gloucester, Mass., 1642, afterwards of . . ., Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, Publisher (1896), 4-5.
  • ²⁴ Wight, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Claflin Family: Being a Record of Robert Mackclothlan, of Wenham, Mass. and . . ., New York: Press of William Green (1898), 81.