Adonijah Maxam

• BIRTH 1720 Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH Nov 1760 (aged 39–40) Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL Ticknors Wood Burying Ground Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
• PLOT Unknown MEMORIAL ID 158072713

Adonijah Maxam was from the old Colony in 1748. The name, in the early records, is spelt Muxam, and is so pro-
nounced by elderly people at the present day. Mr. Maxam settled where Orrin Abel lived on the Ellsworth turnpike, where he died in 1760. He left four sons, Samuel, Benjamin, Adonijah, and Jacob. The third son, Adonijah, after having gone through the active and perilous services of the revolutionary war, which have been detailed in a preceding chapter, died at the age of ninety-seven years. [2]

Graveside Detail
This memorial is for the elder Adonijah.

Spouse
Kezia Benson Shavelier 1720–1791 (m. 1744)

Children
Freelove Maxam Gillett 1750–1836
Adonijah Maxam Jr. 1754–1850

Notes

Mr. Samuel Everett of Ellsworth says that the following were buried in this place: Adonijah Maxam, Amos Sanford. Joseph Lovell, Nathaniel Chapman, Deborah Lord, wife of Isaiah Everett and dau. of Joseph Lord, Esq.

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158072713/adonijah-maxam

Sources

[2] A History of the Town of Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut From it's First Settlement. 1877