1Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, p. 105 (1907).
"(II) Ensign Edward Adams, son of Henry Adams (1), was born in England, 1630, and came to New England, about 1632 with his parents. He married (first), 1652, Lydia Rockwood, daughter of Richard and Agnes (Bicknell) Rockwood. She died March 3, 1676. He married (second) Widow Abigail (Craft) Ruggles, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, (Tilden says Abigail Day of Dedham) who died 1707. He married (third), January 6, 1709-10, Sarah Taylor. He settled with his three brothers, Henry, Peter and Jonathan, in Medfield, Massachusetts. He was ensign in the militia, selectman of the town, representative of the general court in 1689-92-1702. He died at Medfield, November 12, 1716, "the last of the original settlers."
Children of Henry(sic) and Lydia (Rockwood) Adams were: Lydia, born in Medfield, Massachusetts, July 12, 1653, married James Allen and Joseph Daniel; died December 26, 1731. Captain Jonathan, born April 4, 1655, married Mary Ellis, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wight) Ellis; married (second) Mehitable Cheney, widow of James Cheney; died January 24, 1718. John, born February 18, 1657, married (first) Deborah Partridge. Eliashib, born February 18, 1658-59; married -------- Standish, a great-granddaughter of Captain Miles Standish; settled Bristol, Rhode Island. Sarah, born in Medfield, May 29, 1660, married 1677, John Turner, son of John and Deborah Turner; she died 1747. Lieutenant James, born january 4, 1689, Mary -------; settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, died 1733. Henry, born Oct. 29, 1663, married December 10, 1691, Patience Ellis, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wight) Ellis, (born February 22, 1668, died 1695); married (second), 1697-98, in Providence, Rhode Island, Ruth Ellis, sister of first wife; married (third) at Canterbury, Connecticut, Mrs. Hannah Adams. Mehitable, born March 30, 1665, married, about 1689, Josiah Faxon, of Braintree, son of Richard Faxon; she died March 1, 1753. Elisha, born August 25, 1666, married December 18, 1689, Mehitable Cary, of Bristol, Rhode Island. Edward Jr. , born June 28, 1668, married, May 19, 1692, Elizabeth Walley, daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley, of West Barnstable, Massachusetts; settled in Bristol, Rhode island, and died there. Bethia, born April 12, 1670, died 1672. Bethia, born August 18, 1672, died young. Abigail, born June 25, 1675, died young. Miriam, born February 26, 1676, died young.".