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Robert Adams

Abraham Adams

Abraham Adams

Anne Adams

Samuel Stuart

Samuel Stuart

Robert Stuart

Ezekiel Eastman Stuart

Robert Franklin Stuart

Harland Francis Stuart

Dorothy Chandler Stuart

Robert Adams FamilyROBERT1 ADAMS (c1602-1682) m. ELEANOR _______ (d. 1677)ABRAHAM2 ADAMS (1639-1714) M . (1670) MARY PETTINGILL (1652-1705)ABRAHAM3 ADAMS (1676-1763) M . (1703) ANN LONGFELLOW (B . 1683)ANNE4 ADAMS (1705-1787) m. (1727) ROBERT STUART (1701-1728)

Robert1 Adams (c1602-1682) and Eleanor (_______) Adams (d. 1677)ROBERT1 ADAMS was born England about 1602.1 He came to Massachusetts in 1635 and settled at Ipswich, where he remained three years. He then resided briefly in Salem, and in 1640 moved to Newbury, Mass., where he lived and practiced his trade of tailor for the rest of his life.2

Robert Adams married ELEANOR _______ in England.3

Eleanor Adams died on 12 Jun 1677.4 Robert Adams then married, on 6 Feb 1677/78, Sarah (Glover) Short, widow of HENRY1 SHORT.5

Robert Adams of Newbury made his will on 7 Mar 1680/81.6 He mentions his wife Sarah; eldest son John; sons Isaac, Jacob, Abraham; daughter Hannah; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward Phelps; daughter Joanna, wife of Launcelot Granger; daughter Mary, wife of Jeremiah Goodrich; Mary, wife of his son Abraham; and three sons of Abraham, Robert, Abraham, and Isaac.7

Robert Adams died on 12 Oct 1682.8 His will was proved on 27 Nov 1682.9 Sarah Adams died on 24 Oct 1697.10

Robert and Eleanor (_______) Adams had the following children: i. John Adams, born in England and

living in 1681.11 He is mentioned in his father’s will. Apparently never married and left no known descendants.

ii. Joanna Adams, born in England.12 She married Launcelot Granger on 4 Jan 1654.13 Launcelot Granger died on 3 Sep 1689 in Suffield, Conn.14

iii. ABRAHAM2 ADAMS, born in Salem in 1639,15 q. v.

iv. Elizabeth Adams. born about 1641 or 1642 in Newbury.16 She married Edward Phelps.17 Edward Phelps died on 3 Oct 1689 in Andover, Mass.18 Elizabeth died there on 4 May 1718 “aged about 91 years.”19 [sic]

v. Mary Adams, born between 1643 and 1645 in Newbury.20 She married Jeremiah Goodrich on 15 Nov 1660.21 He was the son of WILLIAM and MARGARET (BUTTERFIELD) GOODRICH, q. v.

vi. Isaac Adams, born in 1647 or 1648 in Newbury22 and living in 1680.23 Died unmarried.24

vii. Jacob Adams, born on 23 Apr 1649 in Newbury,25 died there on 12 Aug 164926

viii. Hannah Adams, born on 25 Jun 1650 in Newbury.27 She had an illegitimate child, Joanna (Hannah), by Joseph Mayo prior to her marriage.28 She married William Wareham on 10 Feb 1681 in Newbern, N. C.29

ix. Jacob Adams, born on 13 Sep 1651 in Newbury, Mass.30 He married Anna Allen on 7 Apr 1677.31 Anna Allen was born on 3 Jan 1658, the daughter of Nicholas Allen.32 Jacob Adams died in Nov 1717 in Boston while attending the Massachusetts General Court as the Representative from Suffield (then in Massachusetts, now in Connecticut).33

Abraham2 Adams (1639-1714) and Mary (Pettingill) Adams (1652-1705)ABRAHAM2 ADAMS (ROBERT1) was born in 1639 in Salem, Mass.34

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MARY2 PETTINGILL (RICHARD1) was born on 6 Jul 1652 in Newbury, Mass.35

Abraham Adams married Mary Pettingill 10 Nov 1670.36

Abraham Adams was named a sergeant in the militia in 1703.37

Mary Adams died on 19 Sep 1705 in Newbury.38 Abraham died there on 12 Dec 1714.39

Abraham and Mary (Pettingill) Adams had the following children, all born in Newbury: i. Mary Adams, born on 16 Jan 1672.40

She married George Thurlow in Newbury on 6 Nov 1694.41 He was the son of Thomas and Judith (March) Thurlow, born on 12 Mar 1670.42 He died in Newbury on 17 Jan 1713.43

ii. Robert Adams, born on 12 May 1674.44 He married Rebecca Knight in August 1695.45 She was born on 27 Apr 1674, the daughter of John and Rebecca (Noyes) Knight.46 He died in Newbury on 3 Feb 1769.47

iii. ABRAHAM3 ADAMS, born on 2 May 1676,48 q. v.

iv. Isaac Adams, born on 26 Feb 1679.49 He married Hannah Spofford in 1708.50 She was born in Rowley, Mass. on 12 Feb 1684, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Burpee) Spofford.51 Isaac and Hannah Adams resided in Rowley,52 where Isaac died on 4 Mar 1737.53 Hannah then moved to Boxford, Mass.,54 where she died on 3 Sep 1775.55

v. Sara Adams, born on 13 Apr 1681.56 She married John Hutchinson of Andover, Mass. in Newbury on 28 Jan 1714/15.57 They lived in Andover.

vi. John Adams, born on 7 Mar 1684.58

He married (1) Elizabeth Noyes in Newbury on 22 Jan 1707.59 Elizabeth died on 23 Dec 1708.60 John married (2) Sarah Pearson in Newbury on 17 Nov 1713.61 He died on 8 May 1750.62 Sarah died on 10 Dec 1756.63

vii. Dr. Matthew Adams, born on 25 May 1686.64 He married Sarah Knight in Newbury on 4 Apr 1707.65 She was probably a daughter of John and Rebecca (Noyes) Knight.66 Matthew Adams was the first practicing physician in West Newbury.67 He died on 24 Nov 1755,68 his wife on 29 Oct 1778.69

viii. Israel Adams, born on 25 Dec 1688.70 He married Rebecca Atkinson in Newbury on 5 Oct 1714.71 He died in Waltham, Mass. on 12 Dec 1714.72 His widow married (2) Joseph Hilton of Exeter, N. H.73

ix. Dorothy Adams, born on 25 Oct 1691,74 unmarried in 171575

x. Richard Adams, born on 22 Nov 1693.76 He married Susannah Pike on 12 Dec 1717.77 She was probably a daughter of John and Lydia (Little) Pike.78 Susannah died in Newbury on 17 Oct 1754.79 Richard died there on 2 Nov 1778.80

Abraham3 Adams (1676-1763) and Ann (Longfellow) Adams (b. c1684)ABRAHAM3 ADAMS (ABRAHAM2 ROBERT1) was born in Newbury, Mass. on 2 May 1676.81

ANN2 LONGFELLOW (WILLIAM1) was born in Newbury on 3 Oct 1683.82

Abraham Adams married Ann Longfellow in December 1703.83

Abraham was a sea captain, and made a number of voyages to England and to the West Indies. He later became a farmer and lived in Byfield Parish in Newbury.84

In 1724, Abraham and Ann Adams got into a dispute of some sort with Ann’s brother, Stephen Longfellow, over land that had belonged to Henry Sewall, Ann’s grandfather. Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, who had prepared a document relating to the disputed matter, tried to mediate between his Longfellow relations. He wrote the Adamses a letter suggesting that they resolve the matter out of “Brotherly kindness,” and pointedly suggesting that if they did not that the judgment was likely to go against them. They did not take the hint, and when the matter came up for judgment the court decided for Stephen Longfellow.85

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Ann Adams died in Newbury on 4 Feb 1758,86 and Abraham died there on 8 Apr 1763.87

Abraham and Ann (Longfellow) Adams had the following children, all born in Newbury.

1 Andrew N. Adams, compiler, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., and His Descendants, 1635-1900 (Rutland, Vt., 1900), 1

2 Ibid., 1-2, citing “Coffin’s History of Newbury”3 Ibid., 14 Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the

End of the Year 1849, two volumes (Salem, Mass., 1911), 2:534, hereafter cited as Newbury VR

5 Ibid., 2:13; Adams, loc. cit.6 Adams, loc. cit.7 Ibid., 2-38 Newbury VR, 2:536

9 Adams, op. cit., 110 Newbury VR, 2:53711 Adams, op. cit., 4-5. 12 Ibid. 13 Newbury VR, 2:1114 Adams, loc. cit. 15 Ibid. 16 Ibid. 17 Ibid. 18 Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the

End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass., 1912), 2:524, hereafter cited as Andover VR

19 Ibid., 2:524

i. ANNE4 ADAMS, born on 29 Apr 1705.88 She married ROBERT STUART, q. v.

ii. William Adams, born on 8 Mar 1706.89 He moved to Rowley, Mass. He married Elizabeth Noyes on 22 Apr 1728 in Newbury.90 She was born on 16 Jan 1708, the daughter of John and Mary (Thurlo) Noyes of Newbury.91 William and Elizabeth lived in Rowley, where he died on 6 Mar 176692 and she died in 1787.93

iii. Mary Adams, born on 26 Sep 1707.94 She married Thomas Poor of Andover, Mass. in Newbury on 30 Sep 1728.95

iv. Stephen Adams, baptized on 16 Apr 1712,96 died young97

v. Sarah Adams, born on 29 Sep 1713.98 She married Deacon Samuel Somerby on 29 Sep 173599 and lived in Rowley.

vi. Abraham Adams, born on 24 Aug 1715.100 He married (1) Mary Colman in Newbury on 18 Nov 1737.101 She delivered three triplet sons in Newbury on 6 May 1752, all of whom died on that same day.102 She died 10 days later of a fever, at the age of 35 years.103 Abraham married (2) Sarah Foster on 29 Jan 1760.104 He lived in Rowley, where he committed suicide on 18 or 19 Nov 1771.105

vii. Samuel Adams, baptized on 6 Jun 1717.106 He married Mary (Jewett) Brown of Rowley in Rowley on 26 Nov 1747.107 (She may be the Mary Brown who was born in Rowley on 11 Jul 1723, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jewett.108 A Mary Jewett married Nathaniel Brown of Ipswich in Rowley on 1 Jun 1742,109 and a

Nathaniel Brown died in Ipswich on 1 Nov 1744.110) Samuel Adams served in the Revolution111 and died on 8 May 1791.112 Mary died on 17 Nov 1812 at the age of 90.113

viii. Reverend Joseph Adams, twin, born on 8 May 1719.114 He graduated from Harvard College in 1742 and became a “zealous new-light preacher.”115 He lived in Stratham, N. H., from where he returned to Newbury to marry widow Mary Greenleaf of Newbury in 1746.116 He died in Stratham on 24 Feb 1785.117

ix. Reverend Benjamin Adams, twin, born on 8 May 1719.118 He graduated from Harvard in 1738.119 He married (1) Elizabeth Payson on 15 May 1748.120 She was the daughter of Reverend Payson of Rowley.121 She died on 23 Dec 1753.122 Benjamin was ordained in Lynn, Mass. in 1755. He married (2) Rebecca Nichols of Reading, Mass. in Lynn in late 1756.123 She died in Lynn of consumption on 22 Aug 1776, in her 43rd year.124 He died in Lynn in his pulpit on 4 May 1777.125

x. Nathan Adams, born on 17 Jan 1721.126 He married Mary Trumbull of Charlestown, Mass. in Charlestown on 17 Feb 1757.127 He lived in Charlestown. His house was burned by the British in 1775.128

xi. Henry Adams, born on 18 Nov 1722.129 He married (1) Sarah Emery of Newbury on 20 Nov 1746.130 She died on 7 Feb 1764, aged 37.131 He married (2) Catherine Gerrish on 2 Mar 1767/68.132 He died on 15 Oct 1773.133 His widow then married Benjamin Poor in Newbury on 4 Dec 1777.134

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Robert Adams Family20 Adams, loc. cit. 21 Newbury VR, 2:1222 Adams, loc. cit. 23 Ibid. 24 Ibid. 25 Newbury VR, 1:1426 Adams, loc. cit. Newbury VR,

2:538, lists an unnamed child of Robert Adams as dying on that date.

27 Newbury VR, 1:1328 Steven Edward Sullivan,

“Joanna (Adams) Lunt Identified,” NEHGR, 151:308-312 (1997)

29 Ibid.30 Newbury VR, 1:1431 Ibid., 2:11 32 Adams, loc. cit., 4-5. 33 Ibid. 34 Ibid.35 Newbury VR, 1:39636 Ibid., 2:837 Adams, loc. cit.38 Newbury VR, 2:53639 Ibid., 2:53340 Adams, op. cit., 9-1041 Newbury VR, 2:12; Adams, loc.

cit.42 Ibid.43 Newbury VR, 2:73744 Ibid.45 Adams, loc. cit.. The intention

was published in Newbury on 13 Jul 1695.

46 Newbury VR, 1:270; Adams, loc. cit.

47 Newbury VR, 2:53648 Ibid., 1:949 Ibid., 1:1450 Marriage intention published

24 Feb 170751 Vital Records of Rowley,

Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass., 1928), 1:201, hereafter cited as Rowley VR; Adams, loc. cit.

52 Adams, loc. cit.53 Rowley VR, 1:43754 Adams, loc. cit.55 Vital Records of Boxford,

Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield, Mass., 1905), 221

56 Newbury VR, 1:1957 Ibid., 2:1458 Adams, loc. cit.59 Newbury VR, 2:11; loc. cit.

60 Newbury VR, 2:534; Adams, loc. cit.

61 Newbury VR, 2:11; Adams, loc. cit.

62 Adams, loc. cit.63 Ibid.64 Newbury VR, 1:1765 Ibid., 2:12; Adams, loc. cit.66 Adams, loc. cit.. They had a

daughter named Sarah born in Newbury on 25 Feb 1678, [Newbury VR, 1:171] but she would have been eight years older than Matthew and 29 at her marriage. Also, his widow was said to be 91 at her death in 1778, which would place her birth about 1687.

67 Adams, loc. cit.68 Newbury VR, 2:53669 Ibid., 2:537; Adams, loc. cit.70 Newbury VR, 1:1471 Ibid., 2:11; Adams, loc. cit.72 Adams, loc. cit.73 Ibid.74 Newbury VR, 1:1275 Adams, loc. cit.76 Newbury VR, 1:1877 Ibid., 2:1578 Adams, loc. cit.. They had

a daughter Susanna born on 3 Apr 1697. [Newbury VR, 1:406]

79 Newbury VR, 2:53780 Ibid., 2:53681 Ibid., 1:982 Ibid., 1:28983 Joshua Coffin “Descendants

of Robert Adams,” NEHGR, 11:53 (1857). Their marriage intention was published in Newbury on 13 Nov 1703. [Newbury VR, 2:296]

84 Adams, op. cit. 785 John J. Currier, “Ould

Newbury:” Historical and Biographical Sketches (Boston, 1896), 309-310, citing Samuel Sewall’s letter book and diary

86 Newbury VR, 2:53387 Ibid., 2:53388 Ibid., 1:1089 Ibid., 1:2090 Ibid., 2:15; Coffin, op. cit.91 Coffin, op. cit.92 Rowley VR, 1:43893 Coffin, op. cit.94 Ibid.95 Andover VR, 2:278

96 Newbury VR, 1997 Coffin, op. cit.98 Newbury VR, 1:1999 Ibid., 2:14; Coffin, op. cit.100 Newbury VR, 1:9101 Ibid., 2:8102 Ibid., 2:537103 Ibid., 2:536104 Rowley VR, 1:239; Coffin, op.

cit.105 Rowley VR, 1:437; Coffin, op.

cit.106 Newbury VR, 1:18107 Newbury VR, 2:14; Coffin, op.

cit.108 Rowley VR, 1:112109 Ibid., 1:328110 Ipswich VR, 2:500111 Coffin, op. cit.112 Coffin, op. cit. Newbury VR,

2:536 reports the death of a Samuel Adams with the date shown just as 1791.

113 Coffin, op. cit.114 Newbury VR, 1:15115 Coffin, op. cit.116 Coffn, op. cit. Their intention

was published in Newbury on 29 Nov 1746. [Newbury VR, 2:11]

117 Coffin, op. cit.118 Newbury VR, 1:10119 Coffin, op. cit.120 Rowley VR, 1:239; Coffin, op.

cit.121 Coffin, op. cit.122 Ibid., which doed not say

where she died. Her death does not appear in the VR of Newbury, Rowley, or Lynn.

123 They published their intention in Lynn on 3 Oct 1756. [Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, two volumes (Salem, Mass., 1905), 2:410

124 Ibid.125 Ibid.; Coffin, op. cit.126 Newbury VR, 1:17127 Ibid., 2:13128 Coffin, op. cit.129 Newbury VR, 1:14130 Ibid., 2:10131 Coffin, op. cit.132 Newbury VR, 2:10133 Coffin, op. cit.134 Newbury VR, 2:12; Coffin, op.

cit.