I82924: Henry ADAMS Esq. "the Immigrant" (21 Jan 1583

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"Came from England in 1638, and settled in Braintree where he was granted 40 acres of land 24 Feb 1639-40 was a maltster and yeoman.g-g-grandfather of 2nd president John Adams.

Marriage 1 Edith Fussell SQUIRE b: 29 May 1587 in Charlton, Mackreel, Somerset, Eng Divorced: Y Married: 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton, Mackreel, Eng Divorce 1

Children
Ursula ADAMS b: 19 Jul 1619 in Barton, St David, Somerset, Eng + Stephen STREETER b: 9 Jan 1600 d: 14 Jul 1652
Henry ADAMS b: 1609-1610 in Barton, St David, Somerset, Eng + Elizabeth PAINE b: 23 Jul 1620 d: 21 Feb 1676
Thomas ADAMS b: 25 Mar 1612 in Barton, St David, Somerset, Eng + Mary BLACKSTONE b: 1612 d: 23 Mar 1694
Jonathan ADAMS b: 1614-1619 in Barton, St David, Somerset, Eng + Joane CLOSE
Samuel ADAMS b: 1617 in Barton, St David, Somerset, Eng + Rebecca GRAVES b: 1620 d: 8 Oct 1664
John ADAMS b: 4 Dec 1624 in Kings High Weston, Somerset Eng + Anne HOWE b: Abt 1624 d: Aft Oct 1714
Peter ADAMS b: 1 Mar 1622 in Kings Weston, Somerset, Eng + Rachel NEWCOMB b: 1632 d: 23 Oct 1690
Joseph ADAMS b: 9 Feb 1626 in Kings Waston, Somers., Somerset Eng + Abigail BAXTER b: Sep 1634 d: 27 Aug 1692
Edward ADAMS b: 19 Apr 1629 in Kings Weston, Somerset, Eng + Lydia Penniman ROCKWOOD b: 22 Feb 1635 d: 3 Mar 1676
Jane ADAMS b: 1624 in Kings Weston, Somerset, Eng + Nicholas ROCKETT b: 1628 d: 26 Jan 1680
Jonathan ADAMS b: 1614 + Elizabeth HOLMAN

2. Henry Adams I b: 1580 in Barton St. David, Co. Somerset, England d: Oct 06, 1646 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA Age at death: 66 est. Burial: Oct 08, 1646 Hancock, Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts Emigration: 1638 New England
Fact 1: Henry Adams was the great great grandfather of President John Adams, the second President of the United States.
Fact 2: Henry Adams was the great great grandfather of Samuel Adams, the great patriot and orator.
Fact 3: Henry Adams was the great great great grandfather of President John Quincey Adams, the President of the United States. Number of children: 9 Occupation: Farmer, malster
http://www.hannahdustin.com/short_adams.html

Adams History, by Andrew N. Adams 1898

HENRY ADAMS OF BRAINTREE.
Henry Adams of Braintree, called thus because he was one of the earliest or first settlers in that part of the Massachusetts Bay designated "Mt. Wollaston," which was incorporated in 1640 as the town of Braintree. It included what is now Quincy, Braintree and Randolph, Mass.

He is believed to have arrived in Boston with his wife, eight sons and a daughter, in 1632 or 1633. The colonial authorities at Boston allotted to him 40 acres of land at "the Mount," for the ten persons in his family, Feb. 24, 1639-40.

The name of his wife is not known, nor where and when she died. It has been believed that she returned to England with her son John and daughter Ursula, and died there, which appears not improbable. Henry Adams died in Braintree, Oct. 6, 1646, and was buried on the 8th.

His will was proved June 8, 1647, and is as follows:

"First, my will is that my sonne Peter and John, and my daughter Ursula, shall have the grounde in the neck, both upland and meadow during the term I was to enjoy it, until it returne into the towne's hands againe, from whom I had it; also the aker in the mill fields: my will is that my bookes shall be divided amongst all my children, that my wife shall have and enjoy all my other goods so long as shee live unmarried, and if shee marry, then my will is y't Joseph, Edward and my daughter Ursula should enjoy all my ground in the fielde y't lieth on the way to Weymouth Ferry, and my house lott, with all the houses and fruit trees and all my movables at the death or marriage of my wife, provided they and their mother shall pay to my sonne Samuel that which is due to him for the ground I bought of him, to be paid in convenient tyme; but in case God soe deal with my wife that she bee constrained to make use of something by way of sale, shee may:--finally, for movables, my will is that my sonne Peter and John shall have an equal share with my sonne Joseph and Edward, and my daughter Ursula."

[See N. E. Hist. and Gene. Register, Vol. VII., p. 35 (1853)]

President John Adams erected a granite column to his memory with this inscription: "In memory of Henry Adams, who took his flight from the Dragon of persecution in Devonshire, England, and alighted with 8 sons near Mount Walloston. One of the sons returned to England, and after taking some time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield and the neighboring towns; two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here, who was an original proprietor in the township of Braintree, 1639. (2)

This stone and several others have been placed in their yard by a great-grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, sympathy, prudence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry, and perseverance of his ancestors, in hope of recommending an emulation of their virtues to their posterity." (2)

"Henry Adams, the progenitor in New England of a distinguished American family," ... "Neither from sceptred race of kings nor noble lineage of baronial castle was derived this Adams family in England. They were a race of sturdy yeomen who lived for generations in Barton St. David and its vicinity, subsisting by cultivation of lease hold farms and the raising of sheep and cattle, and residing in simple, stone, thatched cottages.".... After his marriage to Edith Squire in 1609, "...his residence continued for several years in his native ancestral parish of Barton St. David,"... "before 1622, he moved into the adjoining parish of Kingweston, Co. Somerset" ... "he probably continued in Kingweston until his emigration with his family to New England in 1638. He followed the ancestral occupation of farming and also was a maltster." ... ", in 1638 Henry Adams with his wife and all his children (except his son Jonathan Adams) emigrated to New England." ... "The earliest mention of Henry Adams that has been found in New England is on 24 Feb. 1639/40 when he was granted by the town of Boston a lot of forty acres at Mount Wollaston (Braintree, now Quincy) for a family of ten heads, conditional on payment of a charge of 3s. per acre." ... "Henry Adams at once settled at Mount Wollaston which on 13 May 1640 was incorporated as the town of Braintree. His residence was located in that part of town which in 1792 became Quincy, Mass." (2)

(1) A genealogical history of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass.,
(2) Whittemore, Early Settlers
(3) Savage, Dict of First Settlers

FROM: Cutter: The pedigree of this family traces the ancestry, according to one account to Ap Adams, father of John or Lord Ap Adam, who was called to parliament by Edward I., and Baron of the realm from 1296 to 1307, states that he came out of the Marche of Wales into Devonshire.

The "Ap Adams" story is one of the most embarrassing nineteenth-century forgeries. It first appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 7 (Jan. 1853), claiming descent from a landed Adams family at Stoke-Gabriel, co. Devon. Because it claims grand ancestry people have happily quoted it and copied it as gospel ("hey, it's in print, it has to be right"). The Ap Adams fiction was DISPROVED in print as long ago as 1927 when Josiah Gardner Bartlett published the known, documented English origins of Henry Adams, a yeoman farmer from Barton [St.] David (just south of Wells) and next-door Kingweston, Somerset, who married on 19 Oct. 1609 married Edith Squire, from neighboring Charlton Mackrell, Somerset. See Bartlett's book ("Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants" [New York, 1927]), also "Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Sullivan County, New York, Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania and Vermilion, Ohio" by Enid Eleanor Adams (1974), p. 652, from which I quote:

"In 1853...an Adams pedigree purporting to show that Henry Adams, English emigrant to New England, was a descendant of one Sir John ap Adams and his wife Elizabeth de Gurnay, heiress to estates in Somersetshire, Dorsetshire and Gloucestershire, was published and has been reprinted and quoted from frequently ever since. J. Gardner Bartlett, in his 1927 history of Henry Adams, stated unequivocally that the alleged connection of Henry Adams with the Ap Adam family of Beverstone and Tidenham rested on forged evidences. In proof [the Ap Adam chart from The Complete Peerage, vol. 1 (1910), pp. 179-81] was given in the Bartlett book. It shows conclusively that the Adams line issuing from Elizabeth de Gurnay ended by an heiress in 1424, 159 YEARS PRIOR TO Henry Adams's birth! [The last male Ap Adams died in 1424, with his nephew John Huntley appar. sole heir.] Moreover, although Sir John Ap Adams acquired vast estates in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, he never had the manor of Cherleton-Adam."

Mr. Bartlett's book (1927) has numerous photographs of the Saxon church at Barton [St.] David, bonds and other documents signed by, or associated with, the real Henry Adams, his wife, and their ancestors. Miss Adams's treatment (1974) of Henry and his English background is also excellent.
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"Emigrated to New England states in 1638(some say 1640),but according to the book,American Presidential Families, it was 1638. He was called "Gentleman Henry Adams". Occupation: farmer, maltster.
He was buried 8 October 1646, leaving by tradition eight sons yet only five are named in his will, 1646, proved 8 June 1647, where appear Peter, John, Joseph, Edward, Samuel, and daughter Ursula. The inscription on the monument erected by his descendant, John Adams, second President of memor.

"Of Henry Adams who took his flight from the Dragon persecution, in Devonshire, England and alighted with eight sons, near Mt. Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England and, after taking some time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield, and the neighboring towns, two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here; who was an original proprietor in the township of Braintree incorporated 1639."

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Humphrey VI and Eleanor's daughter Eleanor de Bohun (Alianore) married Robert de Ferrers, son of William de Ferrers III and Margaret de Quincy.
The Complete Peerage vol.V,p.135;

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(A) Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun, Sheriff of Ayr (a 1483)

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They had three sons and two daughters. Date of marriage? 1459/60? LDS shows 13 children.
Children:
William Gascoigne [Sir Knight] b. About 1445 in of, Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England
Humphrey Gascoigne b. About 1447 in of, Newton Kyme, , England
John Gascoigne b. About 1449 in of, Burghwallis, , England
Margaret Gascoigne b. About 1451 in of, Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England
Elizabeth Gascoigne b. About 1473 in of, Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England

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John Gevedon was mentioned in the estate left by Thomas "Jeffedon" and his inheritance was delivered to Reny Chastain until John "Jeffadon" was of age. ^[S1465]

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Mary Goode was the dau of Joseph Goode and gddau of John Goode b 1620-1630 in England d. 1709 Henrico Co. VA.

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Father: Joos (Joyce) Lee b. 1566 Yarmouth, Norfolk England d 8 Jul 1671 in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Mother: Anne Hungerford b. 1574 in Farleigh, Hungerford, Somerset, Eng

The Genealogist, London, New Series 24 (1908) 275): She got a license May 3, 1624 from England to overseas. "Triifosa Trace and daughter Sarah, 15mo.Stephen, a pilgrim who came over on the ANNE in 1623 to join friends. Robert S.Wakefield says he came the next boat after the Mayflower...his wife and child came later.. In the division of cattle May 22, 1627, Stephen received 3 acres..the allotment for the familyI MM:

(see The Adventurous Tryphosa (Lee) Tracy, Article in American Genealogist, by Robert S.Wakefield (TAG, Vol 51, No. 2, Pg 71, April, 1975.)

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Elizabeth Thomson6 Mason (Thomson5, George4, George3, George2, George1) was born in Fairfax Co., Va. 1789. Elizabeth died September 2, 1821 in Fairfax Co., Va., at 32 years of age. Eulogy in Mason Family Bible.
She married George Mason VI February 17, 1813. George was born in Fairfax Co., Va. August 11, 1786. George was the son of George Mason V and Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes Hooe. George died August 21, 1834 in Gunston Hall, Fairfax Co., Va., at 48 years of age.(69) His first wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of his father's brother, Thomson Mason.

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(dau of Henry, Earl of Orkney) The Complete Peerage vol.IV,p.435,note c as amended by vol.XIV,p.273.

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Aka: YOUELL. The will of Captain Thomas Youell, dated 7 Dec 1694, mentions " wife Anne, daughter Winifred English and her son Youell English, daughter Watts and her son Youell Watts, daughter Spence and her son Youell Spence.

My Southern Family

Henry ADAMS Esq. "the Immigrant"

21 Jan 1583 - 8 Oct 1646

ID Number: I82924

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ALIANORE de BOHUN

____ - 20 Feb 1314

ID Number: I50866

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Francoise BONDURANT

ABT 1710 - ____

ID Number: I2506

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Sir HUGH CAMPBELL of Loudoun

____ - ____

ID Number: I86245

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Mary Frances EWING

ABT 1870 - ____

ID Number: I8197

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Sir WILLIAM GASCOIGNE Knt. of Gawthorpe

ABT 1426 - ABT 1463

ID Number: I42182

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Jean (John) GEVEDON

1 Mar 1729 - ____

ID Number: I38266

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Mary GOODE

ABT 1715 - ____

ID Number: I34945

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Tryphosa O. LEE

ABT 1600 - BEF Mar 1652

ID Number: I95528

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Elizabeth Thomson MASON

1789 - 2 Sep 1821

ID Number: I90161

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Jane MERIWETHER

ABT 1675 - ____

ID Number: I73641

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Dorcas PENDLETON

1794 - ____

ID Number: I4876

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Feancis (Fannie) (Frankie) RICHARDSON

1787 - ____

ID Number: I47549

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BEATRIX SINCLAIR

ABT 1400 - BEF 8 Feb 1462

ID Number: I57720

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Capt. Thomas YOUELL (EWELL)

ABT 1610 - ABT 1694

ID Number: I25662

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