Family:John Adams and Catherine Stebbing (5)

Not the Ancestor of Henry Adams of Braintree

This Adams family is not connected to Henry Adams of Braintree, despite a partially fabricated pedigree dating back to at least 1851 attempting to show the connection by adding a son John (for whom there is no evidence) to this family^[2].

1. ↑ Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick). The visitations of the county of Devon: comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. (Exeter: For the author by H.S. Eland, 1895)
   p. 9.

   based solely on the Visitation of Devon 1564 (the Adams family was not included in the Visitation of 1620)

2. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   31(1877):333.

   'In the Register for Jan. 1853, vol. vii. page 39, a pedigree of the Adams family, descended from "Ap Adam", who "came out of the Marches of Wales" is printed ... Having ... heard the authenticity of this pedigree questioned, we wrote lately to Col. Chester [called "an American genealogist of high rank, resident in London" in a book by Andrew N Adams] on the subject. In his reply he writes: "After the most careful investigation, I have no hesitation in pronouncing the portion connecting the English family with the Braintree Adamses utterly incorrect."'