Individual Details

Joseph Adams

(9 Feb 1625/26 - 6 Dec 1694)

Mr. J. Q. Adams says, " He was a Maltster by trade, as I believe the first Henry had been, and as their descendants continued to be till within the memory of my father. He bequeathed by his will a considerable estate for those times, to eight children, three sons, Joseph, John, and Peter, and five daughters, Hannah Savill, Abigail Bass, Bethiah Webh, Mary Buss, and Mehitable Adams, who afterwards, 21 July, 1697, married Thomas White, Jr. of Braintree. The Dwelling House, Malt House, and the bulk of the property were left to Peter, the youngest son, who was also constituted sole Executor of the will. The elder sons, Joseph and John, had doubtless had some provision made for them before. To Joseph, the eldest son, the bequest is only of one acre of salt meadow. To John, who was a merchant in Boston, forty pounds sterling, and ten bushels of apples a year from the farm bequeathed to Peter, whenever John should send to fetch them. To Mehitable, twenty pounds sterling, the parlor chamber, feather bed and the furniture belonging to it, and the right to live in the house given to Peter, as long as she should live a Maid." He served at different times in the town offices of Surveyor of Highwaysand of Selectman. On the 10th of April, 1673, he was associated in this latter office with Edmund Quincy. His son John, who removed to Boston, was the father of Samuel Adams, (See No. 33,) and grandfather of the distinguished Patriot of that name.

Events

Birth9 Feb 1625/26Kingweston, Somerset, England
Event-Misc1643
Marriage26 Nov 1650Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States - Abigail Baxter
Death6 Dec 1694Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Families

SpouseAbigail Baxter ( - 1692)
ChildMehitable Adams ( - )
ChildHannah Adams (1652 - )
ChildJoseph Adams (1654 - 1737)
ChildJohn Adams (1656 - 1656)
ChildAbigail Adams (1658 - )
ChildJohn Adams (1661 - )
ChildBethia Adams (1661 - )
ChildMary Adams (1663 - )
ChildSamuel Adams (1665 - )
ChildMary Grover Adams (1666 - 1706)
ChildPeter Adams (1669 - )
ChildJonathan Adams (1671 - )
FatherHenry Adams (1582 - 1645)
MotherEdith Squire (1586 - 1671)
SiblingHenry Adams (1604 - )
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Endnotes

1. Elisha Thayer, Samuel White Thayer, Stephen W. Jackson, Family memorial, Genealogy of fourteen families of the early settlers of New-England (n.p: J. Farmer, Hingham, 1835, n.d), 37.

2. Elisha Thayer, Samuel White Thayer, Stephen W. Jackson, Family memorial, Genealogy of fourteen families of the early settlers of New-England (n.p: J. Farmer, Hingham, 1835, n.d), 38.

3. Elisha Thayer, Samuel White Thayer, Stephen W. Jackson, Family memorial, Genealogy of fourteen families of the early settlers of New-England (n.p: J. Farmer, Hingham, 1835, n.d), 38.

4. Elisha Thayer, Samuel White Thayer, Stephen W. Jackson, Family memorial, Genealogy of fourteen families of the early settlers of New-England (n.p: J. Farmer, Hingham, 1835, n.d), 38.