Individual Details

Jeremy Adams

(1605 - August 11, 1683)

Jeremy Adams was born in 1605 in England, parents unknown. He arrived in America on the Griffin, possibly with Reverend Thomas Hooker, a Puritan minister who fled England. In America Jeremy was a: Puritan minister, farmer, innkeeper and liquor distributor, in 1662, the official inn-keeper for the Colony. He married Rebecca, at her death he married another Rebecca, not much is known about them. At Jeremy's death a receipt shows the colony paid for gallons of wine for his memorial.

Events

Birth1605England, United Kingdom
Arrival1633on the Griffin - Cambridge, British America
Civil1635Freeman - Cambridge, British America
MarriageAbt, 1636Rebecca Baseden
Civil1640with Captain Mason
CivilMarch 5, 1644Hartford, British America
Census1670Hartford, British America
Widow1678
WillAugust 4, 1683Hartford, British America
DeathAugust 11, 1683East Hartford, British America
ProbateSeptember 6, 1683Hartford, British America
OccupationInn keeper
BurialHartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
CivilTown services: juror and deputy, Captain Mason corn purchase and more

Families

SpouseRebecca Baseden (1608 - )
ChildJohn Adams (1638 - 1670)
ChildHannah Adams (1639 - 1660)

Notes

Marriage

Jeremy married 2 or 3 times maiden names of wives are not sure, at least 2 were named Rebecca. Maybe Rebecca Basseden who married Greenhill. And Rebecca who married Andrew Warner then Jeremy.

Endnotes

1. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

2. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

3. (1829). || Page 11 and page 335.

4. (2008). || Volume 1 page 7.

5. (1846). || Page 12 First Settlers of the Colony, Surnames A.

6. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

7. (1939). || Volume 1 page 81 Adams descended of Jeremy Adams of Hartford Connecticut page 81.

8. Ancestry.com, Connecticut Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index 1790-1890 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, 1999), Index, no image.

9. Ancestry.com, Record $ Connecticut Wills and Probate Records 1609-1999 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015), Early to 1880, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford District, Probate Packets, A-Adams, Tim, 1641-1880. 6 pages no page image 1188 of 1528, handwritten.

10. (1904–6). || Volume 1 Page 267, 268 Volume IV 1677 to 1687.

11. Ancestry.com, Record $ Connecticut Wills and Probate Records 1609-1999 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015), Early to 1880, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford District, Probate Packets, A-Adams, Tim, 1641-1880. 6 pages no page image 1188 of 1528, handwritten.

12. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

13. (1955). || Page 2.

14. (1904–6). || Volume 1 Page 267, 268 Volume IV 1677 to 1687.

15. Ancestry.com, Record $ Connecticut Wills and Probate Records 1609-1999 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2015), Early to 1880, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford District, Probate Packets, A-Adams, Tim, 1641-1880. 6 pages no page image 1188 of 1528, handwritten.

16. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

17. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F page 6-11.

18. (1955). || Page 2.

19. (1849). || Page 298 Appendix.

20. (1846). || Page 12 First Settlers of the Colony, Surnames A.

21. (1939). || Volume 1 page 81 Adams descended of Jeremy Adams of Hartford Connecticut page 81.