Samuel Adams naroz. 1617 † 24 leden 1688

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1617 naroz.: England

24 leden 1688 úmrtí: /89

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Samuel Adams was a brother of Joseph Adams, and a son of Henry Adams and Edith Squire of Braintree, MA. Samuel was a great-grandfather of John Adams, second president of the U.S. Samuel first married Mary Eglesfield, daughter of Emanuel Eglesfield and Susanna Gray of London, about 1646. Her mother, Susanna Gray, was baptized at Harwich, England, 31 Jan. 1592/3, daughter of Thomas Gray and Katherine Miles, and sister of Parnel Gray (born about 1601), wife of Hon. Increase Nowell, and also sister of Katherine Gray, wife of Capt. Thomas Graves, both of Charlestown, MA. She emigrated to New England with her mother's relatives and located with them in Charlestown, MA, where she joined the church 7 Oct. 1639. She had 1 child and died in 1650.

After Rebecca died, Samuel married on 7 May 1668 Esther Sparkhawk, as his third wife. She was the mother of 4 children, including John Adams' grandfather. (See Adams and Holmes genealogies.)

The first mention of Samuel Adams is his admission as a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, 10 May 1643, and the next as one of the 33 Braintree petitioners concerning a land grant in Oct. 1645. Previous to 1646 he had conveyed a plot of land to his father whose will directed that Samuel should be paid for it. During the next few years he lived in Charlestown and Concord, MA, and acquired land in Concord. On 3 Aug. 1654, Samuel Adams of Charlestown conveyed to Richard Temple of same a tract of land in Concord. Soon afterwards he joined his brother Thomas Adams in Chelmsford where he erected mills in the part of Chelmsford now Lowell, MA, and was appointed captain of the Chelmsford military company.

"Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, 1637 Settler of Charlestown, Massachusetts and His Descendants," Kenneth Vance Graves, Wrentham, MA, c1994.

ADAMS, SAMUEL, Charlestown, s. of Henry the first, b. in Eng. freem. 10 May 1643, m. Rebecca, d. of Thomas Graves, had Samuel, b. 3 July 1647; Rebecca; Thomas, a. 1652; John; and Catharine, 29 Oct. 1657; both d. young; Catharine, again, 4 Jan. 1659; rem. to Chelmsford, there was town clk. 1679. His w. d. 8 Oct. 1664, and he m. 7 May 1668, Esther Sparhawk, d. of Nathaniel the first of Cambridge, and had four more ch. of wh. Nathaniel, Joseph, and Esther are kn. from will of their elder br. Thomas. He was a Capt. and d. 24 Jan. 1689, aged 72. His d. Rebecca m. John Waldo.

Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol I

CAPTAIN SAMUEL2, b. in England, 1617;

m. (1) Rebecca Graves, dau. of Thomas Graves; d. 8 Oct,, 1662-4.

m. (2) May 7, 1668, Esther Sparhawk, dau. of Nathaniel Sparhawk of Cambridge, Mass.; d. 4 Nov., 1745.

He removed first to Concord, Mass., and thence to Chelmsford, 1653-4; Capt. Samuel, brother of Thomas, was Commissioner of the Court in 1667; he erected mills in the east part of Chelmsford, near where Lowell now is. He had 450 acres of land granted him July 3, 1656, and exclusive right to erect and run a sawmill, provided he would sell boards at three shillings per 100; --and another grant of 100 acres, and right to build and run a grist or cornmill, provided he would keep a sufficient mill and miller.

He d. 24 Jan., 1688-9.

Adams History, p. 6

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