Eleanor (Wilmot) Adams (1610 - 1677)

Born 1610 in Huntingfield, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 12 Jun 1677 at about age 67 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Eleanor was born about 1610 in Huntingfield, Suffolk, England to parents Nicholas Wilmot Abigail Menifee. She married Robert Adams on 28 Mar 1632 in Great Chesterford, Essex, England. Children: John, Joanna, Alice, Abraham, Elizabeth, Mary, Isaac, Jacob, Hannah. They immigrated to America about 1635. She died on 12 Jun 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.^[1]

According to Andrew Adams, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass. and His Descendants 1635-1900, p. 1, the maiden name may have been Wilmot. Nothing further is known of her origin, although it has been suggested that Nicholas Wilmott Wilmott-14 Wilmott-13 and wife Abigail were her parents.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-QPK7 : 29 November 2018), Elinor, 12 Jun 1677; citing Death, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009724.

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010, Wife of Robert Adams, Eleanor Wilmott, child Joanna.

• Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1 (Google eBook). Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker. Lewis Publishing Company, 1908 - New Hampshire

• Andrew Napoleon Adams, A genealogical history of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass: and his descendants, 1635-1900 ... (Google eBook). The Tuttle co., printers, 1900.

• Massachusetts Vital Records - Town of Newbury to 1850: Newbury Vital Records to 1850 Author: NEHG Citations

• Coffin, Joshua. Descendants of Robert Adams, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume VI (January 1857)

• Coffin, Joshua. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury. 1845. Reprint Hampton, New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall, 1977.

• Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts including Waltham and Weston. 1860. Reprint Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1978.

• Goodridge, Edwin Alonzo. The Goodridge Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Goodridge. New York: privately printed, 1918.

• London Metropolitan Archives, St Mary Cole church, Composite register: register of baptisms, 1558 - 1670, marriages, 1558 - 1665/6 and burials, 1558 - 1666, P69/MRY8/A/001/MS04438 APID: 1,1624::7635843

• Lafayette Wallace Case M.D., Author Role: Editor The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Rich Publication: Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1889, Second Date, 1984

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

• Find A Grave: Memorial #62560021

Acknowledgements

• GED file graciously provided to Whitney Rapp on 10/18/17 by Goodrich Family Association (http://www.goodrichfamilyassoc.org) for upload to WikiTree.

• WikiTree profile Wilmott-2 created through the import of Tom.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by Tom Elliott.

• WikiTree profile Wilmott-13 created through the import of Oct 14 2012.ged on Nov 10, 2012 by Pam Carter.

• This person was created through the import of Weaver.ged on 03 January 2011.

• WikiTree profile Wilmot-136 created through the import of EBENSTEIN-GRANGER.GED on Aug 19, 2011 by Merryann Palmer.

• WikiTree profile Wilmot-173 created through the import of Hasfjord Family Tree(1).ged on Jan 27, 2012 by Joel Hasfjord.

• WikiTree profile Wilmot-121 created through the import of The Sammons Family Tree.ged on Jun 9, 2011 by Steve Sammons.

• Wilmot-275 was created by Janiece Johnson through the import of Where I Came From.ged on Apr 17, 2014.