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About John Adams, of Hartford
Biography
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fesschequy/genealogy/Adams.html
2. JOHN ADAMS, son of Jeremy and Rebecca Adams, born circa 1637 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, died 6 Sept. 1670 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. In 1655, John went to court to try to recover a debt of 35 shillings from Thomas Dement. The following year John was fined 5 shillings "for playing att cards and yt at a vnseasonable time of the night," and again was fined 40 shillings for "unseemly carriage to Symon Smiths wife." A letter of consent dated 24 Aug. 1657 (and entered into the records of the Particular Court of Connecticut) granted John permission to marry ABIGAIL SMITH, baptised 21 Jan. 1638 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, died after 2 April 1689 in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, youngest daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Buswell) Smith of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The letter of consent was signed by both the father of John and the father of Abigail, and their marriage certificate was entered in the Particular Court records on 1 Sept. 1756. John and Abigail had three daughters and four sons.
Following his marriage, John appears twice in The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut (1636-1776), by James Hammond Trumbull and Charles Jeremy Hoadly. First, on 11 March 1663 at a General Assembly at Hartford, "This Court doth grant vnto John Adams, 300 acres of land, at yR place where his father Adams took vp land in ye way to N: London, whereof thirty acres of meadow ioyneing to his father or Nicholas Olmsted. He relinquisheth his right at Fairfield." Again, in Oct. 1669, John Adams appears on the list of freemen "on ye South side of Hartford."
John died the following year, being probably only about 33 years old. On 9 Oct. 1670 an inventory of his estate was completed. The date of John's death is mentioned in the incipit of the inventory: “An Invitory of ye Estate of John Addams deceased September 6: 70 taken by us whos hands are under written.” John's estate was valued at £74.15.06, and those who conducted the inventory were Matthew Gilbert, Nathaniel Willett, and Siborn Nickols.
The children listed were:
- "Rebeccah – 12 years Agust last;
- Abigall – 11 next february;
- Sarah – 9 march next;
- Jeremy 6 August last;
- John 4 septr last;
- Jonathan 2 years old Nov (last?);
- one not yet borne."
John's widow Abigail was made administrator and John Talcott and "Jeremie Addams" (John's father) were asked by the court to serve as guardians and overseers of John's children.
Not quite three years after John's death, his widow Abigail remarried on 13 March 1673 probably in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, to JOHN BETTS, baptised 5 May 1627 in Claydon, Oxford County, England, died early 1697 in Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, son of John and Mary Betts. John and Abigail had no children together. On 1 April 1673, John Betts produced "a writing subscribed by Rebeckah Boreman, Mary Wright, Martha Smith and Sarah Butler, which signified that the 13 of March John Betts was married to Abigail Betts, & that the sd John Betts took her in clothes of his own providing to her, Shift & Stareless, being Stript as aforesd by the aforesaid women" -- through this old marriage custom, John renounced all claims and interest to her estate, including her debts. John and Abigail at first lived in Wethersfield, but in 1680 John purchased a farm at Huntington on Long Island, after which John and Abigail and their children from their first marriages moved to Huntington, and the two of them remained there till their deaths.
Added by Suzy from ancestry.com, report from
by the buck/petway tree
NO, he isn't the 2nd president, sorry people.
Contrary to the wishful thinking displayed in a number of family trees…oh, if only wishing made it so…this is NOT the John Adams and Abigail Smith who were the parents of the 6th president, John Quincy Adams and who were, the second first couple.
Just look at the dates people; they are about 150 years off from possibility. So sorry to bust people’s bubbles.
Ruth ann Adamsky
July, 9, 2009
· Name: John Adams
· Birth: ABT 1637 in Connecticut
· Death: 9 Sep 1670 in Connecticut
Their marriage is found in the Hartford records as follows: 26 Aug 1657; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT 6. A Coppy of a Certificate vndr the names of these subscribed: These are to certify to any to whom it may come, that our children John Addams & Abigail Smith haue our full consent to be marryed together, & wee know not engagemt of either party to any other, as wittnesse our hands. Rich: Smith Jer: Addams
Savage's: Received half of his father's estate upon his death. His entry: JOHN, Hartford, s. prob. eldest, of Jeremy of the same, had Rebecca, b. Aug. 1658; Abigail, Feb. 1660; Sarah, Mar. 1662; Jeremy, Aug. 1664; John, Sept. 1666; Jonathan, 6 Nov. 1668; and d. 1670, leav. wid. in expecta. of ano. ch. Of the s. Jeremy went to Huntington; and John to Great Egg harb. both on L. I.
· Change Date: 13 May 2006 at 11:25:13
Father: Jeremy Adams b: 1604 in England
Mother: Rebecca Basedon b: 1608 in Staplehurst, Kent, England
Marriage 1 Abigail Smith
* Married: 24 Aug 1657 in Connecticut
Children
1. Rebecca Adams b: 1658 in Hartford, Connecticut
Went to Great Egg Harbor
BOOK<nowiki>--------</nowiki>New England Hist. & Gen. Reg. vol 59 p 316<nowiki>-------</nowiki>
Of this John little is known, except the date of his death, and the inventory
of his estate.
died in 1670
The inventory, dated Nov. 9,1670, amounted to 74 lbs.15.06. His widow,
Abigail, married John Betts of Wethersfield, who was the probable son of John,
the son of Mary Betts the School Dame of Hartford.
Children
1. Rebecca, b. Aug., 1658.
2. Abigail, b. Feb., 1660; m. Edward Higbee.
3. Sarah, b. Mar.,1662.
4. Jeremiah, b. Aug., 1664; m.--.
5. John, b. Sept.,1666; m.--.
6. Jonathan, b. Nov 6, 1668; m. Barber(Barbara?)----. d.1727.
7. a child.
Notes
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adams-32135
Not the parents of Rebecca Baxter
Rebecca, according to one secondary source, is considered by someone unnamed to be the daughter of John and Dorcas Watson Adams, of Hartford.[1] However, that John Adams of Hartford married Abigail Smith, and that couple is recorded as having a daughter Rebecca, but she seems to have married a different man, Richard Risley. Dorcas Watson, on the other hand, was the daughter of John Watson of Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay, married first Timothy Dwight of Medfield and second John Adams of Ipswich[2] and there are no indications that she ever got to Hartford, Connecticut. So her parentage is doubtful. More research needed
GEDCOM Note
1 _UPD 18 OCT 2017 17:10:40 GMT -0600
2 AGE 32-33
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John Adams, of Hartford's Timeline
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August 26, 1637
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Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
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| 1658 |
August 1, 1658
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
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1658
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| 1660 |
1660
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Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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| 1662 |
March 9, 1662
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony, (Present USA)
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| 1664 |
August 6, 1664
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, Colonial America
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| 1666 |
September 4, 1666
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Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America
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| 1668 |
November 6, 1668
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Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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| 1670 |
September 6, 1670
Age 33
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Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
John Adams died without a Will. But Probate Court records detail his progeny |