Person:John Adams (80)

John Adams came from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 'Fortune' in 1621. This was the second ship, after the Mayflower, to land at Plymouth. His wife Elenor/Helen/Ellen Newton came in the 'Ann" in 1623, and she was granted land in Plymouth. John died in 1633 and in 1634 Elenor remarried to Kenelm Winslow, of Marshfield. ^[3]

11 November 1633 Records 1:19 Following the intestate death of John Adams, his widow Hellen/Ellen Adams was appinted administrix of the estate, and was bound, together with John Barnes, "in the sum of 140£", to make full payment of "all & every the debts of the said John Adams," who had left no will. ^[4] Ellen was directed to provide £5 apiece to her three children by John Adams - James, John and Susan - when they came of age, if she should choose to remarry.^[5]

Text References

1. ↑ John Adams, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   He was alive on 1 July 1633 when assigned mowing ground, but his inventory was recorded on 24 Oct 1633.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Family of John Adams of Plymouth, Massachuessetts, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   33/410-413, Oct 1879.
3. ↑ The Genealogical Magazine of NJ; (Whittemore's Adams Family, (1893) p. 55; Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth, II:3; Mayflower Descendant 1:157)
4. ↑ JOHN BARNES of Plymouth, 1633-1651, dec. ca. 30 August 1671 Compiled by Jeff Fleisher & Chip Cunningham University of Virginia Anth 509, Spring & Summer 1996 This record is available online at the University of Virginia website Plymouth Colony Project: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jfd3a/Plymouth/Barnes3.html
5. ↑ Anderson, Great Migration Begins

He is referred to as John Adams of Plymouth. No link in England is identified.