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Facts and Events
| Name[3][4] |
Robert Eames |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
4 Mar 1749 |
Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
Bef 1773 |
probably Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesBased on birth of eldest known child
to Jerusha Willis |
| Marriage |
14 Aug 1783 |
Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Adams |
| Death[2] |
2 Jul 1828 |
Roxbury, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States |
References
- ↑ Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rutland, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1905)
p. 37.
EAMES, Robert, s. Aaron and Anna, [born] March 4, 1749.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Hillside Cemetery, Roxbury Center, NH, in Find A Grave
Robert Eames.
ROBERT EMES
Died
July 2, 1828.
[Note: if any age at death is on the gravestone, it is completely buried and no hint of it is visible.]
- ↑ Struthers, Parke Hardy. A history of Nelson, New Hampshire, 1767-1967. (Keene, New Hampshire: Sentinel Printing, c1968)
p. 186.
"ROBERT EAMES b. 1749 d. 1828 AE 79 ys. m1. Jerusha Willis. m2. Sarah Adams in 1783"
[Note: this source appears to have incorrectly identified the painter Joseph Alexander Ames as their son. The painter's birth in 1816 and death in 1872 makes it clear this is wrong. Their actual son died in 1867 aged 81 (born 1786, see this page, 8th record). Rather, the artist is a son of his son Daniel Adams Eames.]
- ↑ Jerusha (Willis) Goodenow was 13 years older than Robert, which creates considerable doubt whether this Robert Eames could be her husband. Note that neither "The Willis family of Sudbury, Mass.", NEHGR, Vol. 114, p. 35-37; nor Source:Adams, Andrew N. Genealogical History of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Mass., and His Descendants, p. 976 and 998; chooses to identify the Robert Eames who married Jerusha Willis and Sarah Adams, respectively. No conclusive piece of evidence has been found to show this is correct, but it seems widely accepted. The age at death on the gravestone, if any, is buried, and the misidentification of the son by the History of Nelson makes it impossible to rely on its age at death given the lack of confirming record. There is an alternative Robert Eames, b. in Malden to Robert and Anna in 1737, which is a much more appropriate age for a husband of Jerusha, but strictly based on Source:Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, p. 358, identifying the Malden Robert as the Robert Eames of Marlborough who married Lydia Harrigton, with an age at death corresponding to the Malden birth, it appears the traditional view is probably correct.
That the same Robert Eames married both Jerusha and Sarah seems almost certain. It does appear from deeds that the husband of Jerusha moved to Packersfield (Nelson), NH (Middlesex Deed Vol. 96, 433; Vol. 96, p. 434, where Robert Emes of Sudbury sells land he holds in right of Jerusha Emes deceased, both acknowledged remotely from New Hampshire; Vol. 103, p. 377 where in 1790 Robert Emes of Packersfield sells land in Sudbury), and Sarah signs one deed "of Packersfield" (Middlesex Deed Vol. 176, p. 306) and given Jerusha's death about 1782, the marriage to Sarah in 1783 is a good fit, so this is probably one man. It appears Robert and Joseph Eames of Malden are sons of Robert, i.e., one by each wife, Robert Jr. through his business dealings with his step-uncle Nathan Adams, and Joseph through Sarah's Packersfield deed cited above. The deed describes Joseph as a morocco dresser (i.e., not an artist).
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