Ezra Adams, Esq., was born in 1751 to David Adams and Mindwell Case.
Ezra Adams was a Veteran of the Revolutionary War.He responded with the men of Simsbury to the Lexington Alarm, April 1775. [1]
Ezra first married Hannah Wilcox (1755 - 1801), daughter of Col. Amos Wilcox. Four of his children were said to have been born "with usual capacities, [ but] soon sunk into and died in a state of idiocy, which was a great trial to their parents." Hannah died in 1801, so all of these children would have been hers. They had 8 children:
Note: Ezra Adams was a tanner and shoe dealer. Intimations of mental infirmity among the children of this family may not necessarily have been related to genetic factors, rather could have been due to exposure to preservative substances used at that time for the curing of skins to produce leather. Among those substances were metallic elements such as mercury and arsenic, which are effective antimicrobial agents to prevent biodegradation of the leather itself, yet per current understanding do produce untoward effects upon nerve tissues in mammalian systems when exposure concentrations are elevated, particularly in children.
After the death of his first wife Ezra Adams married Hannah (Grant) Seymour (1771 - 1824), who was widowed of her first husband, Ashbel Seymour.
Ezra Adams died in 1837 at South Canton, Connecticut.
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