Abigail Betts

The children of Richard Smith and Rebecca Buswell were:

ABIGAIL SMITH, baptised 21 Jan. 1638 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, died after 2 April 1689 in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, married twice.

Biography

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fesschequy/genealogy/Adams.html

Arthur Adams gave this fuller account of John Adams' life in his book Jeremy Adams of Cambridge, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., and His Descendants (1955), pages 4-5:

2. John 2 (Jeremy 1) Adams was the only son of Jeremy’s to leave issue. August 24, 1657, he married Abigail Smith, a sister of Jonathan Smith who married his sister, Hannah, and youngest daughter of Richard Smith, Sr., of Wethersfield, whose wife was named Rebecca. Richard Smith was an early Wethersfield settler, and left a numerous and very respectable progeny. Neither John Adams nor Rebecca Smith was of age at the time of the marriage, and the document giving the consent of both Jeremy Adams and Richard Smith to the marriage is of record.

Very little is found of record, besides the grant of Colchester land in 1663, concerning John Adams. The explanation of this is his early death.

He died September 6, 1670, without a will. However, the records of the Probate Court give the names and ages of the children and tell us that another child was expected. John’s widow married, secondly, John Betts, of Wethersfield, March 13, 1672/3.

John Betts moved with his own and his wife’s children, for the Adams marriage was also his second venture, to Huntington, Long Island. Probably the oldest original document relating to the family in private hands is a deed from John and Abigail Betts, dated April 2, 1689, conveying land to John Betts, Jr., Thomas Adams, and John Adams. Thomas was the posthumous child of John Adams, mentioned in the Probate Court record. This deed is owned by Dr. Lewis Paddock Addoms, of Brooklyn, N. Y., now retired from practice and spending the summer months at his summer home in Huntington. He is a descendant of John, son of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams.

The seven children of John and Abigail Adams were:

1. -- REBECCA ADAMS, born Aug. 1658 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, married Richard Risley.
2. -- ABIGAIL ADAMS, born Feb. 1660 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, married Edward Higbee.
3. -- SARAH ADAMS, born March 1662 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, married John Brush of Huntington.
4. 3. JEREMIAH ADAMS, born Aug. 1664 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
5. -- JOHN ADAMS, born in Sept. 1666 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
6. -- JONATHAN ADAMS, born 6 Nov. 1668 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
7. -- THOMAS ADAMS, born 1670 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, died young and unmarried in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York.

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GEDCOM Note

<p>!</p><p><p>!She married John Betts and they moved to Huntington, Long Island in 1680 and</p></p><p>bought a farm.</p>