"Parker Adams, third son of Captain John and Mary (Parker) Adams, of Canterbury, Connecticut, and a brother of John Adams (Yale 1795), was born in Canterbury on May 6, 1779, and entered College after the opening of the Sophomore year. He studied after graduation for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was ordained Deacon by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, of New York, on October 18, 1808, and Priest by the Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, of the Eastern Diocese, on October 27, 1811.
In 1815, or a little earlier, he became Rector of Trinity Church in Lansingburg, and of Grace Church, in Waterford, New York, holding both charges until 1818. He was elected Rector of the Church in Claremont, Sumter County, South Carolina, on June 20, 1818, and remained there until 1821. From 1821 to 1829 he was Rector of St. John's Church, Johnstown, New York. His last charge was over St. Stephen's Church, in New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, of which he was Rector from August, 1829, until his death, which occurred in St. Augustine, Florida, on June 10, 1835, at the age of 56 years. He is buried in the Old Protestant Graveyard in that city."
