see John Gray of Durham
Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/167
Other : Noyes, Geneal Dict Me & NH p212
Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/168
Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/168
see John Gray of Durham
Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/167
Other : Noyes, Geneal Dict Me & NH p212
Sources:
Other : Stackpole, Hist Durham NH, 1913, 2/167
m 1717; he m2 Joanna ---
FAMILY RECORD:
Thomas Bickford - s/o John 2, Thomas 1; b 18 May 1694; m 10 Mar 1717 Esther,
d/o Charles & Temperance (Benmore) Adams; he was bp at OR 11 Feb 1721/2 & she
was bp 7 Jun 1719; he liv near Moharimet's hill in Madbury; his wife joined
Dover ch 20 Jun 1742; his will 26 Jan 1765-27 Feb 1765 names wife Joanna &
following children:
a) Thomas - of Epsom with wife Mary 1754-66; of Pittsfield 1790.
b) Charles - he & wife Elizabeth sold home in Madbury 5 Jun 1766.
c) John - deeded farm in Epsom to son John ?1801; the will fo John Bickford
of Barnstead 11 mar -10 Jun 1807 names wife Lydia, sons John & Charles,
grandson Daniel s/o John, daus Dorcus Huckins, Lydia Hawkins, Esther Durgin,
Temperance Clark & Abigail Hodgdon.
d) Samuel - m Mercy ___.
e) Temerance - m ___ Young; she was bp at OR 7 Jun 1719.
f) Elizabeth - m 21 Apr 1749 Ebenezer Young in Newington.
g) Rebecca - bp 20 Sep 1739; m ___ Cook.
h) Sarah - b 12 Feb 1736; m abt 1760 Samuel Blake of Epping; d 27 Jun 1804;
10 ch.
i) Joseph - bp 30 Dec 1741; executor & had homestead in Madbury; m Mary, d/o
Thomas & Joanna (Pinkham) Snell of North Lee.
[Stackpole, Hist Durham, 1913, 2/23].
m 1717
FAMILY RECORD:
John Adams - On the 20th day of November, 1684, Timothy Prout, Edward Willey
and Edward Willis became surety to the town of Boston for Richard Wilkins,
William Stewarte, John Adams, John Langdon, Samuel Gray, John Simons, Thomas
Atkinson, and Archibald Eraskin [Erskine] and their families. [See report of
the Record Commissioners of Boston, Vol. X, p. 75.].
It is known that Stewarte and Erskine were Scotchmen, and it is probable
that all of this company were from Scotland. They had recently arrived and
somebody had to be surety for them, lest they might come upon the town for
support.
The above John Adams had wife, Avis, and the next event recorded concerning
his family is the birth of their daughter Jane, in 1686. He bought a house of
Nathaniel Williams, Dec 1688, and is called "cordwainer" in the deed. He sold
"tenement and shop" to Abraham Blish, 19 Jan. 1690. The deed is witnessed by
Peter Barber. June 20,1693, Mary, widow of Henry Phillips, sold to John Adams,
Sr., of Boston, cordwainer a house occupied by Samuel Gray, doubtless the same
person as the one named among those who arrived with John Adams 1684. It was
on the highway leading to Roxbury, bounded east by Bishop's Lane, which is now
Hawley Street. William Gibbons was one of the witnesses. June 21, 1693, John
Adams, Sr., cordwainer, and Avis, his wife, mortgaged to John Richards the
house last mentioned, "tenement occupied by Samuel Gray." The mortgage was
discharged 23 Feb. 1693/4. The marriage bond of Peter Barbour, tailor and
Sarah Willey, spinster, of Boston was signed by John Adams, shoemaker, of
Boston, 16 Nov 1687. [See Court Files, Boston.] Peter Barbour was another
Scotchman.
On 1O Feb. 1693, John Adams, Sr., cordwainer, and wife, Avis deeded to
Mathew Cary a tenement late in the possession Mary Phillips and now in the
tenure of John Adams. The deed was subscribed 9 March 1693/4. This same house
was sold by Mathew Cary to Samuel Lynde, 15 Dec. 1694, "occupied by John Adams,
Sr.," and 5 Jan. 1696/7 Mathew Cary sold to Andrew Belcher the same house, "
now or late in the tenure & occupancy of John Adams, cordwainer."
The Superior Court of Judicature, Nov. 1699, had a case Edward Gouge,
plaintiff, and Anthony Checkley, defendant "Whereas Edward Gouge recovered a
judgment against John Adams of Boston, cordwainer, for ú12 and costs of suit,
and execution was returned to court with "non est Inventus," etc. Anthony
Checkley was surety for John Adams and pleaded that he never set hand to the
bond, but the verdict was against Checkley and he paid the bill, which was
receipted 20 Sept. 1704. It must have been John Adams, Sr., of whom it was
said in 1699, non est Inventus, for John Adams junior was in Boston, 1699-1705.
John Adams, Sr., had died. Rev. Hugh Adams writes that in 1701 " four of my
young brethren and sisters were orphans left to my brotherly care," and "my own
godly mother the widow Avis Adams died" in 1699 as the result of a pestilential
disease contracted in nursing the Rev. John Cotton at Charleston, S. C.
John and Avis Adams had children as follows:
a) John - m Hannah Checkley 19 Oct 1693.
b) Hugh - b 7 May 1676; m Susanna Winborn.
c) Matthew - m1 Katherine Brigdon; m2 Meriel Cotton
d) Jane - b 21 Feb 1686; m 20 July 1713 Joseph Harding at Chatham, Mass.
e) Ann - b 20 Feb 1688; m1 13 Feb 1706 Wm Flay; m2 23 Sep 1714 William Ings
of Boston.
f) William - bapt 8 March 1690; d young.
g) William - bapt 12 Feb 1692.
h) Ebenezer - bapt 23 Dec 1694.
[Stackpole, Hist of Durham NH, 1913, 2/1ff]
TP, Nexus XI/203
FAMILY RECORD:
Joseph Adams - s/o Henry 1 Adams; b 1626 England; m 26 Nov 1650 Abigail
Baxter. Children:
a) Henry -
b) Joseph - m Hannah Bass & had John Adams who was ancestor of Pres J Q
Adams & Rev Joseph Adams of Newington NH (b 1 Jan 1689, grad Harvard College
1710, ordained 16 Nov 1715, d 26 May 1783). Mary g/d of Rev Joseph Adams of
Newington marr Jonathan Ross Jr of Gilmanton NH.
c) John -
d) Bethia -
e) Samuel -
f) Peter -
g) Jonathan -
h) Deliverence -
i) Mary -
[Cogswell, Hist. of Nottingham, Deerfield & Northwood, 1878, p.674].
TP, Nexus XI/203
m 1683; Nexus XI/203
FAMILY RECORD:
John Adams (John) married, 19 Oct. 1693, Hannah, daughter of Anthony and
Hannah (Wheelwright) Checkley. Her father was attorney general. John Adams,
Jr., was cordwainer, shopkeeper, captain and lieutenant-governor of Nova
Scotia. Jan. 8, 1700, the heirs of Henry Stevens convey to John Adams of
Boston, shopkeeper, a house at the south end on highway leading to Roxbury,
bounded east by Bishop's Lane, the same house that his father had once bought,
lived in and sold. The next year John Adams sold this house and moved into a
brick house adjourning, where he was a tenant of John Wainwright. Oct. 4,
1712, Thomas Newton wrote a letter to Capt. John Adams of Annapolis Royal
saying that "Mr. Wainwright is now sueing out his mortgage of the house your
aunt and I live in and the house your family lives in, and creditors have a
deed of the Over-plus thereof when that and your mortgage are satisfied, and I
am desired by the creditors to know what is due to you or yours, which I desire
you will let me know by the next conveniency." [See Suffolk Court Files.]
John Adams was still at Annapolis Royal in 1718. In 1741 he was in Boston
and was blind. He then sold to John Gibbons, at the end of a law suit, the
brick house above mentioned, for #500. The deed is witnessed by his brother,
Matthew Adams, and by Hannah Newton, who was daughter of this John Adams * and
had married Hibbert, son of Thomas Newton above mentioned.
By a further study of the records it appears that Ann, wife of William
Gibbons was aunt of Capt. John Adams of Annapolis Royal, son of John and Avis
Adams. She was, therefore, sister to John Adams, Sr., or to his wife, Avis, or
possibly William Gibbons was brother to Avis Adams. Capt. John Adams had
children:
a) Avis -.
b) Hannah - m Hibbert Newton.
c) Anne -.
d) Rev John - bapt 26 March 1704/5; d Jan 1740, ae 36.
[See N. E. Reg. Vol. XXXIII, p. 132.] * Several persons named John Adams
have been confused by some genealogists. John, son of Alexander Adams, seems
to have died before 1684. See Suffolk Deeds, XIII, 222. John Adams, a
malster, son of Joseph Adams, malster, married Hannah Webb and died 2 Nov 1702.
His widow married 12 Dec 1705 Samuel Winkley, and died in 1707. This John
Adams had children, (1) Samuel born 6 May 1689, who married 21 April 1713, Mary
Fifield, and had son, Samuel Adams, the patriot, born 16 Sept. 1722; (2) Hannah
who married 22 Sep 1710, Samuel Holbrook of Weymouth; (3) Abigail born 6 Oct
1691, d 4 July 1712; (4) John born 4 Nov. 1693, bound out in 1707. He chose
uncle Peter Adams for guardian; (5) Joseph born 20 Dec 1695, bound out; (6)
Mary born 20 Dec. 1695; (7) Bethiah born 20 Aug 1697, d 8 Dec 1702; (8) Thomas
born 2 March 1700; (9) Abijah born 11 May 1702, who married 1725, Deborah
Cutler, and later had second and third wife. He died 9 Feb. 1768, aged 66. I
am indebted to Miss Virginia Hall, genealogist, of Boston, for much information
about these often confused persons, named John Adams, of Boston. [Stackpole &
Thompson, History of Durham NH, 1913, 2/3ff]
m 1683
m 1701
FAMILY RECORD:
Rev Hugh Adams - s/o Johnn Adams, born 7 May 1676, graduated at Harvard in
1697. The next year he went to South Carolina, where he was pastor of several
churches, and remained there till 1706. In a letter he states that "our
precious godly mother Avis Adams departed this life October 6th last" (1699).
This was at Charleston. [See Mass. Hist. Coll. Vol. VI., 5th series p. 12.]
He married, 1701, as he himself writes, Susanna Winborn undoubtedly daughter
of the Rev. John and Elizabeth (Hart) Winborn, and granddaughter of William
Winborn. *
Under date of 1 May 1726, he records the admission to church of "Lydia
Winborn, the maiden daughter of my wife's brother." April 6, 1718, he records
the admission to church of "Susanna Adams, my wife. She was a member of the
church in Carolina."
The Rev. Hugh Adams died in Oct. 1748, aged 72. [See chapter on History of
the Church in Durham.] His widow, Susanna was living in 1766. Children:
a) Son - b & d at Ashley River, SC in 1702.
b) Samuel - b Jun 1705; m1 Phebe Chesley, m2 Rebecca Hall.
c) Elizabeth - b 5 May 1713 in Chatham MA; m Joseph Drew.
d) Winborn - b 19 April 1715 in Boston; schoolmaster in Durham; "deceased in
office," 1736. **
e) John - b 13 Jan 1718 in OR; m in Boston 23 Dec 1741 Anna Parker.
f) Avis - b 11 Apr 1723; m William Odiorne.
g) Joseph - b 22 April 1725; prob dy.* William Winborn signed the Exeter Combination of 1639 and was Clerk of the
Writs in Exeter in 1643. He and wife, Elizabeth, lived in Boston, 1644-62. He
was chosen town clerk of Manchester, Mass., in 1686, where his son, John, was
preaching. William Winborn of Malden, Mass., and his son, John, with wife,
Elizabeth, sold land in Malden in 1687. [See Middlesex Deeds, VIII, 219.]
John, his son, was born in Boston 21 of 7th month, 1638, and married, 11
Sept. 1667, in Malden, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Hart of
Watertown, Lynn and Reading. She was born 11 Dec. 1651. Her father's will
names daughter, Elizabeth Wenborne.
Rev. John Winborn was minister of the church at Manchester, Mass., 1667-86.
The town records show that he left Manchester between 1690 and 1693. He is said
to have died in 1707. [See History of Essex County, II, 1283.] No record of
his family has been found. He may have gone to South Carolina, and in that
state only the name Winborn is found in the census of 1700.
Susanna Winborn had a brother, Ebenezer, of Boston, who married, 11 May
1706, Lydia Prince, born 1685, daughter of Joseph Prince of Hull, Mass., who
married, 7 Dec. 1670, Joanna, daughter of Secretary Nathaniel Morton of
Plymouth, Mass. Ebenezer Winborn was a watchman in the south end of Boston
from 1723 till 1758. He may have married (2) Elizabeth Gwinn, 24 Oct. 1744.
He had children, Prince, who married 30 Nov. 1743 Mary Rogers and probaby (2),
17 June 1765, Esther Johnson in Middletown, Conn.; Elizabeth who married 29
Oct. 1739, Bozoun Allen; Susanna who married 12 July 1734, Andrew Coffin;
Joanna who married 29 Dec. 1736, Nicholas Foster; and Lydia born 13 Feb 1706/7,
who was living in 1739. This last the maiden baptized in Durham by the Rev.
Hugh Adams.
** There is in the library of the Mass. Historical Society a manuscript letter
of Rev. Hugh Adams dated 22 April 1736, to Mr. Nathan Prince, Fellow of Harvard
College in Cambridge, requesting the speedy return of his son, Winborn Adams,
who had been sick. He says that in the space of seven months eighty-six person
had died in Durham by a pestilential fever and Quincey." [Stackpole &
Thompson, History of Durham NH, 1913, 2/4ff]
m 1701
m1 1715; he m2 1734 Meriel Cotton
FAMILY RECORD:
Matthew Adams - s/o John, was a merchant in Boston, "an ingenious and
amiable man, who had a pretty collection of books" and loaned the same to
Benjamin Franklin, as the latter writes. He died in March 1747/8. He married
(1) Katherine Brigdon 17 Nov. 1715, and (2) Meriel Cotton, 1O June 1734.
Children by 1st wife:
a) Matthew.
b) Katherine.
c) John - b. 19 June 1725; m. Sarah Wheeler, (2) Hannah Chesley.
d) Nathaniel - b. 1726; d. 1766; m. (1) 1752, Deborah, dau. of Capt. John
Knight, (2) 1755, Elizabeth Parker, dau. of Hon. William Parker of Portsmouth.
She d. Nov. 1814, aged 80. He had son Nathaniel b. 1756, who wrote the Annals
of Portsmouth and m. (1) Eunice Woodman and had 3 ch., (2) Martha Church and
had 5 ch.; Mary b 1758; Deborah b. 1759; John b. 1761; Anne b. 1763; and
William b. 1765.
e) Elisabeth - b. 1732; m. 17 April 1749, Dea. Jeremiah Burnham; d. 2 June
1753.
Child by second marriage.
f) Meriel - m. (1) Winthrop Burnham, (2) Dea. Nathaniel Norton.
[Stackpole & Thompson, History of Durham NH, 1913, 2/5ff]
m1 1715; he m2 1734 Meriel Cotton
FAMILY RECORD:
Matthew Adams - s/o John, was a merchant in Boston, "an ingenious and
amiable man, who had a pretty collection of books" and loaned the same to
Benjamin Franklin, as the latter writes. He died in March 1747/8. He married
(1) Katherine Brigdon 17 Nov. 1715, and (2) Meriel Cotton, 1O June 1734.
Children by 1st wife:
a) Matthew.
b) Katherine.
c) John - b. 19 June 1725; m. Sarah Wheeler, (2) Hannah Chesley.
d) Nathaniel - b. 1726; d. 1766; m. (1) 1752, Deborah, dau. of Capt. John
Knight, (2) 1755, Elizabeth Parker, dau. of Hon. William Parker of Portsmouth.
She d. Nov. 1814, aged 80. He had son Nathaniel b. 1756, who wrote the Annals
of Portsmouth and m. (1) Eunice Woodman and had 3 ch., (2) Martha Church and
had 5 ch.; Mary b 1758; Deborah b. 1759; John b. 1761; Anne b. 1763; and
William b. 1765.
e) Elisabeth - b. 1732; m. 17 April 1749, Dea. Jeremiah Burnham; d. 2 June
1753.
Child by second marriage.
f) Meriel - m. (1) Winthrop Burnham, (2) Dea. Nathaniel Norton.
[Stackpole & Thompson, History of Durham NH, 1913, 2/5ff]