Joseph ADAMS

9 Feb 1626 - 6 Dec 1694

• OCCUPATION: farmer and maltster
  
• BIRTH: 9 Feb 1626, Kingweston, Somerset, England [2480]
• DEATH: 6 Dec 1694, Braintree, Suffolk, MA

• MARRIAGE: 2 Nov 1650, Braintree, Suffolk, MA [5855]

1. +Hannah ADAMS
2. +Joseph ADAMS

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 _Henry ADAMS __|
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|--Joseph ADAMS 
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|_Edith SQUIRE _|
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[2481] (Adams and associated lines from a GEDCOM posted to Rootsweb by Scott Williams [scott_williams@hotmail.com]).

(Note that not all the Adams children are listed here; only those directly related to
Needham lines are included. Please see the sources below for a full accounting.)

"Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass."
Bartlett, J. Gardner
New York; 1927; pp90-93
"Joseph Adams (Henry), born at Kingweston, Somersetshire, England, in 1626, was brought to
New England in 1638 by his parents and went with them to Braintree (now Quincy), Mass. The
first mention of him here is in 1646 as a legatee in his father's will. He succeeded to
the paternal homestead in Braintree, like his father was a farmer and maltster, and died
in Braintree 6 Dec. 1694, aged sixty-eight years... Joseph Adams married at Braintree, 2
Nov. 1650, Abigail Baxter, born in Roxbury in Sept. 1634, daughter of Gregory and Margaret
(Paddy) Baxter; she died in Braintree, 27 Aug. 1692."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"ADAMS, Joseph (1626-1694, ae 68) & Abigail BAXTER (1634-1692); 2 Nov 1650, 20 Nov, 26?
Nov; Braintree"

[2479] [S189] Field-Stuntz Tree RootsWeb jud

[2480] [S191] Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (editor)

[5855] [S193] Savage, James