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Facts and Events
Note origin and wife's name unknown
References
- ↑ William Adams of Ipswich, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
Case number 338, proved Mar. 25, 1662.
The will of William Addams proved Mar. 25, 1662, and inventory received. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 104.
An agreement made Apr. 24, 1668, between Nathaniell Addams of Ipswich and Samuell Addams his brother; that all the lands and goods which William Addams their father had bequeathed to them should be equally divided between them according to the true meaning of the will, allowing convenient maintenance unto his wife during her life, and paying such portions as their father had bequeathed unto his daughters. The house and barn and all the land about the house wherein the said Nathaniell now dwelleth containing about 16 acres, also another division of land lying between the land of Samuell Addams, brother to Nathaniell and the land of Thomas Stace, bounded by a long hill running down from the thick woods to a piece of meadow appertaining to John Addams, our brother, that he bought of Anthony Potter, also another piece of meadow being upon the Black brooke, bounded northwest by a point of upland running down to the brook & southeast by the land of Symon Stacy, shall belong unto Nathaniell and his heirs forever. All the land that is now in the occupation of Samuell Adams, being an entire parcell of land joining to Mr. SaltonstalFs farm shall belong to him and his heirs forever.
And all the goods and chattells that are at present in the possession of either of them shall so continue to them and their heirs. Signed and sealed Apr. 24, 1668 by Samuell Addams. Witness: William White, Thomas Waite.
Acknowledged June 30, 1668 by Samuell Addams. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 79. (p. 366-367)
Estate of William Adams, Jr. of Ipswich.
Administration on the estate of William Addams, jr. of Ipswich, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to William Addams, his father, and John Addams, his brother. (p. 278-280)
- ↑ Robert Strong, Two Seventeenth-Century Conversion Narratives from Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in New England Quarterly
Vol. 82, No. 1 (Mar., 2009), pp. 136-169.
read online William2 Adams's origins are more difficult to ascertain than those of the Woman who would become his Wife [Elizabeth Stacy of Bocking, Essex]. A William1 Adams (his father), who appeared in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1635, is recorded as a freeman in 1639 and as deceased in 1661 in Ipswich [See Essex Probate]. The son [William2 Adams] is listed, age 15, among the passengers of the Elizabeth and Ann, traveling to the New World from London in 1635. No other Ipswich residents appear to have been aboard that vessel with William. The best information on William Adams's emigration can be found in the first page of his narrative: When I was between 14 & 15 years of age, I came Over to New England & here Living first Under the ministry of Master Hooker [Thomas Hooker 1586-1647 who came over with the Stacy family]." ... In June 1636, Hooker's congregation left Newtown for Hartford, Connecticut; the William Adamses, father and son, chose to resettle in Ipswich instead. In Ipswich, William and Elisabeth married sometime between 1647 and 1649 and pursued a life that appears to have been of middling status." At his death, the inventory of William's estate included a '"Dwelling house and orchard together with six or seven acres of marsh near to Mr. William Paynes, "appraised at £70." His "clear estate" was valued at £278:13s:7d., and he possessed "Sixty acres or there abouts of land on the south side of the river by John Addams." Although it should be noted that William predeceased his father, thus having been deprived of the advantage of inheriting his estate, his assets do not place him and his family among Ipswich's more comfortable and secure residents. In April 1655, Elisabeth Adams died, and in January 1659, William did as well. Their son William, having been orphaned at age nine, was apparently cared for by relatives, perhaps the wife of John Whipple, one of the wealthier men in Ipswich, who seems to have been "either a sister of Simon Stacy or of his wife Elizabeth Clerke (Clark)."
- Descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, in Perley, Sidney, ed. Essex Antiquarian. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Antiquarian)
2:87.
- William Adams 1 Ipswich, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
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Adams, William: Unknown; 1635; Cambridge, Ipswich [GM 2:1:13-14; MBCR 1:375; NEQ 82:136-69; Essex Ant 2:87]. (His son William came to New England in 1635 on the Elizabeth & Ann [GM 2:1:13]. The New England Quarterly article cited here connects, corrects and amplifies these two Great Migration sketches.)
- William Adams of Cambridge Ipswich, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
2:1:13-14.
- Appleton, William S. (William Sumner). Some descendants of William Adams of Ipswich, Mass. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977).
- Bosworth, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lloyd). William Adams (1594-1661) of Ipswich Massachusetts, and some of his descendants: a history of the ancestral Adams lineage of Madeline (Adams) Whitehead and descendants of John Quincy Adams of Mound City, Kansas : with details of related families including: Dickinson, Knowlton, Leach, Locke, Burnap, Eliot, Wilson, Mapes,. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c1996).
- ↑ Cambridge (Massachusetts). City Clerk. The Records of the town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Massachusetts, 1630-1703: the records of the town meetings, and of the selectmen, comprising all of the first volume of records, and being volume II of the printed records of the town. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1985)
477.
Ipswich Deaths: "ADDAMS, William, ––– ––, 1661. CTR (p. 477); Addams, William, Jan. 18, 1658. CTR
- Tingley, Raymon Meyers. Some ancestral lines: being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife Martha Pamelia Meyers. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935)
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