Individual Details
Elisha ADAMS
(5 Jul 1733 - 18 May 1823)
1790, Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, Elisha Adams, head:
3 white males over 16
1 white male under 16
3 females
Other Adams in Pittsford were:
Elijah Adams, with 1 white male over 16, 1 under 16 and 3 females
Richard Adams with 1 white male over 16, 2 under 16 and 2 females
Saxton Adams with 1 white male over 16, no males under 16 and 2 females.
Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War, Vermont, by Major General Carleton Edward Fisher and Sue Gray Fisher, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, has this on page 3: "ADAMS, Elisha, CT: b c1732; r Coventry?, CT; Lt Talcott's co 1775; d 1823; bur Pittsford; 10, p 7; CL 41."
Caverly, 1872, says that the Adams family, consisting of the father and mother - Elisha and Sarah - and sons, Elijah, Samuel, Thomas and Elisha and daughter Anne, John Fenn, Elias Hall and Noah Hopkins, located here (Pittsford) in 1784. Elisha married Sarah Taylor, but where he first located we are not informed. "He bought land of the agents of the Governor of the colony of Connecticut, located in Coventry, on the 2d day of June, 1771." He "leased a small farm in Coventry, Nov. 30th, 1771." He "sold and conveyed land in Coventry, Feb. 17th, 1774." He "bought land in Coventry of Samuel Ladd, Aug. 29th, 1778." "Thomas and Elisha Adams sold and conveyed land in Coventry, Aug. 29th, 1778. Elisha Adams sold land in Coventry, April 29th, 1779". Per Coventry Records. He then lists their children and states they were all born in Connecticut.
Whether this family came directly from Coventry to Pittsford, or stopped by the way as did the Brown family, we have no means of knowing. Their earliest deed of land in the township of which a record exists, was one of one hundred and ten acres, from Elisha Rich to Thomas and Samuel Adams, and is dated May 21, 1784. As will be seen, the former was seventeen and the latter a little more than thirteen years of age. The boundaries of this lot were marked by perishable objects, no vestige of which now exists, consequently it is impossible to fix its exact limits, but it is known to have been on or near East Branch brook, and to have included a part of the high land east of Furnace Flat. As no mention is made of the mill in this deed, and as it is known that Elisha Adams, the father, owned this a few months later, it is highly probable that he purchased this with some land in the vicinity in his own name, but the deed was never recorded. Not long after he purchased the grist-mill, he built a saw-mill a few rods below it, and both were kept in operation some years by some member or members of the Adams family. They first moved into the house built by Elisha Rich, but they soon constructed another log house, on the hill, about six rods west of the present resident of Mrs. Carrigan.
He also states that Elisha was blind for the last few years of his life.
Page 612 lists Elisha Adams and Sarah Adams as among the 15 members who organized the Pittsford Congregational Church on April 14, 1784.
Page 683 lists Elisha Adams as a Selectmen of the town in 1790.
Dates and places for this family are from Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six, Family - Stephen Hopkins, by John D. Austin, Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2001, or from Caverly's History of Pittsford, unless otherwise noted.
Per Austin, he was a Corporal from CT in Rev.; to Pittsford, VT.
The public records of the colony of Connecticut, Vol. XIII, at ancestry.com, has this on page 637, for May 1772: "Upon the memorial of Timothy Thrall of Windsor, shewing to this assembly that he informed against one Elisha Adams of Coventry as being guilty of counterfeiting and uttering sundry coins and bills, on which information said Adams was apprehended and on examination confessed his guilt and was admitted to be a witness for the King, and further shewing that he, the memorialist, was at great cost and expence in apprehending the said Adams; praying for a reward or premium for his service therein, as per memorial on file: Resolved by this Assembly, that the said Timothy Thrall as a reward for his services in the premises shall be paid the sum of ten pounds out of the Colony treasury; and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same accordingly."
3 white males over 16
1 white male under 16
3 females
Other Adams in Pittsford were:
Elijah Adams, with 1 white male over 16, 1 under 16 and 3 females
Richard Adams with 1 white male over 16, 2 under 16 and 2 females
Saxton Adams with 1 white male over 16, no males under 16 and 2 females.
Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War, Vermont, by Major General Carleton Edward Fisher and Sue Gray Fisher, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, has this on page 3: "ADAMS, Elisha, CT: b c1732; r Coventry?, CT; Lt Talcott's co 1775; d 1823; bur Pittsford; 10, p 7; CL 41."
Caverly, 1872, says that the Adams family, consisting of the father and mother - Elisha and Sarah - and sons, Elijah, Samuel, Thomas and Elisha and daughter Anne, John Fenn, Elias Hall and Noah Hopkins, located here (Pittsford) in 1784. Elisha married Sarah Taylor, but where he first located we are not informed. "He bought land of the agents of the Governor of the colony of Connecticut, located in Coventry, on the 2d day of June, 1771." He "leased a small farm in Coventry, Nov. 30th, 1771." He "sold and conveyed land in Coventry, Feb. 17th, 1774." He "bought land in Coventry of Samuel Ladd, Aug. 29th, 1778." "Thomas and Elisha Adams sold and conveyed land in Coventry, Aug. 29th, 1778. Elisha Adams sold land in Coventry, April 29th, 1779". Per Coventry Records. He then lists their children and states they were all born in Connecticut.
Whether this family came directly from Coventry to Pittsford, or stopped by the way as did the Brown family, we have no means of knowing. Their earliest deed of land in the township of which a record exists, was one of one hundred and ten acres, from Elisha Rich to Thomas and Samuel Adams, and is dated May 21, 1784. As will be seen, the former was seventeen and the latter a little more than thirteen years of age. The boundaries of this lot were marked by perishable objects, no vestige of which now exists, consequently it is impossible to fix its exact limits, but it is known to have been on or near East Branch brook, and to have included a part of the high land east of Furnace Flat. As no mention is made of the mill in this deed, and as it is known that Elisha Adams, the father, owned this a few months later, it is highly probable that he purchased this with some land in the vicinity in his own name, but the deed was never recorded. Not long after he purchased the grist-mill, he built a saw-mill a few rods below it, and both were kept in operation some years by some member or members of the Adams family. They first moved into the house built by Elisha Rich, but they soon constructed another log house, on the hill, about six rods west of the present resident of Mrs. Carrigan.
He also states that Elisha was blind for the last few years of his life.
Page 612 lists Elisha Adams and Sarah Adams as among the 15 members who organized the Pittsford Congregational Church on April 14, 1784.
Page 683 lists Elisha Adams as a Selectmen of the town in 1790.
Dates and places for this family are from Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six, Family - Stephen Hopkins, by John D. Austin, Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2001, or from Caverly's History of Pittsford, unless otherwise noted.
Per Austin, he was a Corporal from CT in Rev.; to Pittsford, VT.
The public records of the colony of Connecticut, Vol. XIII, at ancestry.com, has this on page 637, for May 1772: "Upon the memorial of Timothy Thrall of Windsor, shewing to this assembly that he informed against one Elisha Adams of Coventry as being guilty of counterfeiting and uttering sundry coins and bills, on which information said Adams was apprehended and on examination confessed his guilt and was admitted to be a witness for the King, and further shewing that he, the memorialist, was at great cost and expence in apprehending the said Adams; praying for a reward or premium for his service therein, as per memorial on file: Resolved by this Assembly, that the said Timothy Thrall as a reward for his services in the premises shall be paid the sum of ten pounds out of the Colony treasury; and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same accordingly."
Events
| Birth | 5 Jul 1733 | Canterbury, Windham Co., Connecticut |  | ||
| Property | 2 Jun 1771 | Coventry, Tolland Co., Connecticut | |||
| Property | 21 May 1784 | Bought land in Pittsford, Rutland, CT. | |||
| Census | 1790 | Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vermont | |||
| Death | 18 May 1823 | Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vermont | | ||
| Burial | Aft 18 May 1823 | Old Congregational Cemetery, Pittsford, Rutland Co., Vermont | | ||
| Reference No | 944 |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah TAYLOR (1740 - 1814) |
| Child | Elisha ADAMS (1757 - 1758) |
| Child | Sarah ADAMS (1759 - 1824) |
| Child | Elisha ADAMS (1762 - 1773) |
| Child | Elijah ADAMS (1764 - ) |
| Child | Samuel ADAMS (1767 - 1859) |
| Child | Thomas ADAMS (1770 - 1852) |
| Child | Anne ADAMS (1772 - 1772) |
| Child | Anne ADAMS (1775 - 1839) |
| Child | Elisha ADAMS (1778 - 1850) |
| Father | David ADAMS (1699 - 1759) |
| Mother | Dorcas PAINE (1700 - 1745) |
| Sibling | Jonathan ADAMS (1724 - ) |
| Sibling | Constance ADAMS (1726 - ) |
| Sibling | Levi ADAMS (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | Abel ADAMS (1730 - ) |
| Sibling | Dorcas ADAMS (1735 - ) |
| Sibling | Leah ADAMS (1738 - ) |
| Sibling | Rebecca ADAMS (1742 - ) |
Endnotes
1. , Canterbury Vital Records (n.d.), ; digital images, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, (www.americanancestors.or : accessed .
2. Pittsford, VT, Town Records, Pg. 3, cemetery records.
3. Fannie Smith Spurling, Gravestone Inscriptions [7 cemeteries in Pittsford, Chittenden and West Rutland, VT] (Name: Name: Delavan, WI, 1937;;), Pg. 11.
4. Pittsford and Proctor Cemetery Inscriptions Rutland CountyVermontRecorded Sept. 1991 by Margaret R. Jenks. Book at FamilyHistory Library.
5. FindAGrave Website.