Asahel Adams

DENISON GENEALOGY, by E. Glenn Denison, Josephine Middleton Peck, Donald L. Jacobus, The Pequot Press, Inc. Stonington, CT, 1963. Page 15.

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Asahel Adams of Canterbury, and David Avery of Brooklyn, executors of the estate of Jonathan Avery, late of Norwich, Now Lisbon, sold land belonging to the estate, July 24, 1796 (Lisbon Deeds, 1:442). Asahel Adams went on the "Lexington Alarm:" enlisted in the Revolutionary army, May 5, 1777, from Canterbury; was discharged 5 may 1780 (Conn. Men in the Rev'n, pp. 19, 220). He was Excellent Scribe of the Franklin Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Norwich, Conn., 1801. He moved to Liberty, Ohio in 1802.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. Found in the DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 204.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT with the rank of PRIVATE. DAR Ancestor #: A000403

Asahel Adams, (1754-1818), enlisted, 1777, for three years in the Connecticut Continental Line. He was at Valley Forge, Monmouth, in the Rhode Island campaign and was honorably discharged, 1781. He was born in Connecticut; died in Trumbull Co., Ohio.

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