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John Adams Sr (abt. 1596 - bef. 1633)

John Adams Sr
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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1624 in Plymouth Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Father of , and
Died before before about age 37 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colonymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
John Adams Sr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 11)
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Biography[1]

John Adams's origins are unknown. No evidence for his parentage has been identified.

John Adams arrived in November 1621 on the Fortune and settled in Plymouth.[2]

In the 1623 Plymouth Land division he was given one acre, having been a passenger on the Fortune.[2]

By 1627 -- and as early as 1625 -- he married "Eliner" or Ellen (______) Newton[3] and had a son James.[4] She was the only Ellen in the 1623 land division and there were no other known additions to the Plymouth population in the next few years. She remarried June 1634 to Kenelm Winslow[5] and was buried at Marshfield 5 December 1681, age 83.[6] (probably inflated).

The 1627 cattle division listed John, Eliner and James Adams.[4] John was listed in the 1633 list of freemen, but the listing indicates he was a freeman before 1 January 1632/3.[7]

John Adams died between 1 July 1633 when assigned mowing ground,[8] and 24 October 1633 when inventory of his estate was taken.[9][10] The inventory, valued at £71 14s, was presented to court 11 November 1633. His widow was named administratrix, and three children were named in the court documents -- James, John and Susan, still minors.[11] The payment to son James was made by Kenelm Winslow [his step-father], recorded 26 December 1651.[12]

Children

  1. James, b bef 22 May 1627; m in Scituate 15 or 16 June or July 1646 Frances Vassall, daughter of William Vassall.
  2. John, b aft 22 May 1627; m1 in Marshfield 27 December 1654 Jane James; m2 by 10 December m 1666 Elizabeth ________.
  3. Susan, b aft 22 May 1627; no further record


Research Notes

Disputed Parents and Origins:' John Adams's origins are unknown. No evidence for his parentage has been identified. Adams is a common name, and there are many coincidental vital records that could refer to this John Adams, but lack documentation demonstrating a connection. Per Robert Charles Anderson in The Great Migration Begins, 1995 (p 12):

Banks has published some records for the name John Adams in London, but none of these can be connected with John Adams of Plymouth [Pilgrim Fathers 105].[1][13]

The John Adams born 7 August 1595 and Baptized 7 January 1595 Wemme, Shropshire, England[14] has not been proven or disproven to be the same as he who died in Plymouth Colony in 1633, and so has been disconnected from the Plymouth family.

No son Samuel: No son Samuel as claimed by many family trees on ancestry.com

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Unless otherwise noted, biography content is extracted from Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, pp 11-12 NEHGS Member link .
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet; Pulsifer, David New Plymouth Colony; Records of the colony of New Plymouth, in New England (New York : AMS Press, 1861) Vol 12, Page 5.
  3. ↑ Note that there is disagreement whether Ellen/Eliner was a widow, or if Newton was her last name at birth. Please see her profile for more information.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1866, Vol. 12, p 11
  5. ↑ Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1855, Vol. 1, Page 30.
  6. ↑ Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, eds. (n.p. 1970), p 13
  7. ↑ Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1855, Vol 1, Page 3
  8. ↑ Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1855, Vol. 1, page 14
  9. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest. Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, in The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1899) Vol 1, p 157-58.
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-VSB2?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-F29%3A338083801 : 5 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 23 of 616; State Archives, Boston.
  11. ↑ Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1855, Vol. 1, p 19.
  12. ↑ Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records, 1855, Vol. 2, page 176.
  13. ↑ Banks, Charles. The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1962), Page 105.
  14. ↑ Shropshire, England, Extracted Parish Records

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Voorhees-281 Kristina (Voorhees) Adams
Adams-33476 and Adams-510 do not represent the same person because: no dates or places to compare
posted by Kristina (Voorhees) Adams
Adams-12030 Al Adams
Adams-33476 and Adams-510 do not represent the same person because: different no info
posted by Al Adams
Adams-12030 Al Adams
Your right. Go ahead and combine the two and see what you can do..... Thank You.
posted by Al Adams
M Cole
Any objections to combining the Merge Warning and Disputed Parents sections? They both basically say the same thing.
posted by M Cole
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Go for it.

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posted by Jillaine Smith
Voorhees-281 Kristina (Voorhees) Adams
Adams-510 and Adams-23186 appear to represent the same person because: Adams-23186 has little detail and no sources. Birth and death years the same.
posted by Kristina (Voorhees) Adams
Adams-12030 Al Adams
Jillaine, Joe, I added the birth record to This John's profile as a note of reference for further study. Thanks for the feed back.
posted by Al Adams
Joseph Kelly
John Adams Jr. of Plymouth took as his second wife, Elizabeth (nee Unknown).The name Elizabeth Russell and/or Elizabeth Phipping seem to be used interchangeably by researchers. The only Elizabeth Russell I've been able to find fitting the age and area is actually the half-sister of John's first wife Jane James. Jane's mother took as her second husband George Russell. They had four daughters by this union: Mary, Elizabeth, b. 12 Feb 1642/43; Martha; and Patience. However, Tingley [note 31], 326, indicates that Elizabeth married Thomas Palmer. [NEHGR 151:70].
posted by Joseph Kelly
Cochoit-2 Joe Cochoit
Sharon, that FAG is for his son. I wouldn't bother adding the correct one for this John Adams as it literally makes more errors than facts it gets right. (wrong birth date, wrong death date, wrong name of wife).
posted by Joe Cochoit
Smith-35023 Sharon Smith
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102770285/john-adams
posted by Sharon Smith
Kenneth Kinman
The profile for Adams-28455 has now been merged into this one. And the two profiles for his wife Ellen are also now merged into one.
posted by Kenneth Kinman
Juliet (Adams) Wills
The source, NEHGR33:410-413 , has been listed for several years, but I updated factual data appropriately from this source onto profiles for John Adams Jr. (Adams-509) and wife Elizabeth Russell Adams(Russell 2136) which had not been clarified completely. My emphasis was to reiterate this source and its importance highlighted in as easier to read format especially for those working on other genealogical sites hoping improvement to their data would occur.
posted by Juliet (Adams) Wills
B-404 Anne B
Thank you Juliet. The blog cites NEHGR33:410-413 which was consulted for this profile, and is already in the source list.
posted by Anne B
Juliet (Adams) Wills
This well documented genealogy of John Adams of Plymouth, Massachuessetts, might be of interest to those working on this New England Adams family. On other genealogy websites, there is confusion with some attached VA descendant(s) which does not comport with New England records. See Website: [1]
posted by Juliet (Adams) Wills
B-404 Anne B
Adams-28455 and Adams-510 appear to represent the same person because: They have the same death date. They have the same wife - Worden is one of the unproven surnames for Ellen Unknown. The birth on -28455 is an unproven date listed in the bio of -510. The son John on -28455 has a strange birth listing (obviously incorrect) but they have the same death information.
posted by Anne B

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