Person:Edward Adams (23)

BIOGRAPHY: REGISTER OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ROLL OF MEMBERS 369 EDWARD ADAMS MILLS 12944 San Francisco. Attorney-at-law. Born in the village of Akron, Erie County, N. Y., June 6, 1851. Son of Elisha Mills Adams and Laura (Knight). Grandson of Elijah Knight and Electa (Johnson). Great-grandson of Charles Knight and Mary (Beckwith). Great 2 grandson of ELISHA BECKWITH and Adelaide (Carpenter). ELISHA BECKWITH was born in Lyme, Conn., in 1718, and died in White Plains, N. Y., October 28, 1776. He was a Private Soldier in the 6th Battalion of Gen. Wadsworth's Connecticut State Brigade, commanded by Col. Chester, in which he enlisted in June, 1776. He participated in the Battles of Long Island and White Plains. (Conn. Men in the Rev., p. 413.)