Benjamin Adams (1735 - 1817)

Born 20 Nov 1735 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Harriman) Adams — married 1756 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1817 at age 82 in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Benjamin Adams was born 20 Nov 1735 in Rowley, Essex, MA. He lived in that part of Rowley, now Georgetown, in the Clark house on Haverill street and carried on the farm. He was known generally as "Lawyer Ben Adams" because of his pugnacity and fondness for litigation.

Private Benjamin Adams served with Essex County, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Benjamin Adams is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A000410.

Benjamin Adams was a Minute Man at the Lexington and Commanded a company at the Burgoyne campaign. With Captain Eliphalet Spafford and Colonel Samuel Gerrish, Essex County, MA Gerrish-448

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

Captain Benjamin Adams, son of William and Elizabeth (Dorman) (Noyes) Adams, was born at Rowley, now Georgetown, Essex county, Massachusetts, November 20, 1735, died in 1817, while returning from a visit to his son. Dr. Samuel Adams, in Washington. He was a captain in the Continental army, was a member of the famous Boston Tea Party, and was present at the surrender at Yorktown. He married Mary, a daughter of Jonathan Harriman, and had ten children.

Migrated from Massachusetts colony to the wilds of Pennsylvania

Sources

Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1928-1931), 11.

ADAMS, Benjamin, s. William and Elizabeth, Nov. 20, 1735.

The Essex Antiquarian: An Illustrated ... Magazine Devoted to the Biography, Genealogy, History and Antiquities of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 2, 1898

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary, John A. Schutz, UPNE, 1997

A genealogical history of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass: and his descendants, 1635-1900 ...

Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume 47

Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol 1, p. 361-364)