Person:Elijah Adams (10)

m. 6 Oct 1720
  1. Elijah Adams1738/39 - 1798
  • HElijah Adams1738/39 - 1798
  • W.  Deborah Arnold (add)
m. Aft 26 Feb 1761
  1. Elijah Adams1762 -
  2. Deborah Adams1763 -
  3. Sarah Adams1765 -
  4. William Arnold Adams1766 -
  5. Moses Adams1768 -
  • HElijah Adams1738/39 - 1798
  • W.  Hannah Prest (add)
m. Aft 10 Jun 1779
m. 18 Oct 1789
Facts and Events
Name[5] Elijah Adams
Gender Male
Birth[3] 16 Mar 1738/39 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[4] 18 Mar 1738/39 Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Aft 26 Feb 1761 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesIntentions
to Deborah Arnold (add)
Marriage Aft 10 Jun 1779 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesIntentions
to Hannah Prest (add)
Marriage 18 Oct 1789 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Judith Bowland
Death[1][2] 25 Aug 1798 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Copp's Hill Burial Ground, in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. (Ann Smith) Lainhart. Inscriptions and Records of the Old Cemeteries of Boston. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c2000)
    p. 161.

    Sacred to the memory of
    Mr ELIJAH ADAMS
    who departed this Life
    Augst 25th 1798
    in the 61st Year of his Age.
    [Note: enhanced by reference to Find A Grave. 61st year, so age 60, born about 1738.]

  2. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
    Case 20914.

    Vol. 96, p. 421 28 Aug 1798: Letters of administration to Samuel Townsend of Boston Hair dresser on Estate of Elijah Adams late of said Boston Cordwainer deceased Intestate.
    Vol. 96, p. 454 4 Sep 1798: Inventory of Elijah Adams late of Boston Cordwainer dec'd: £23.13.6, by James Robbins, James Adams, Perkins Nichols.
    Vol. 97, p. 746: 10 Sep 1799: Account of Samuel Townsend Admor of Mr. Elijah Adams Intestate Dec'd, allowed. Mentions "by 2 coffins".

  3. Bates, Samuel. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793. (Randolph, Massachusetts : D.H. Huxford, 1886)
    p. 779.

    Elijah Adams ye son of Samuel Adams & Sarah his wife was born March ye 16th. 1738.

  4. Sprague, Waldo C., transcriber. Quincy, Mass.Church Records 1672-1870.

    ADAMS
    Elijah, son of Samuel Adams, [baptized] Mar. 18 1738/9.

  5. Adams, Andrew N. A Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants: Also John Adams, of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897. (Rutland, Vt: A Adams (printed by the Tuttle Co), 1898)
    p. 400.

    Children of Samuel Adams and Sarah Paine: 7) Elijah, b. Braintree 16 Mar 1738, d. Boston 22 [sic] Aug 1798, m. (1) Mrs. Deborah Miner [sic], m. (2) Judith Townsend, widow of Nathan.
    [Note: this account appears to miss his second wife.]