Alexander Adams

Alexander Adams was a shipwright in Boston and invested in a wharf there. He was appointed a "water bailiff".

"Alexander ADAMS married Mary COFFIN 1644. Alexander Adams was of Dorchester and Boston. He was a large fat man of a very ruddy countenance a shipwright—came into New England with Capt. Hawkins and built for many years ships at Boston." ~• from: https://parkmangenealogy.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/elias-parkman-co-founder-of-windsor-ct/''

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1. Alexander Adams, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2. Hodgman, Arthur Winfred. Identification of Susanna, Wife of Samuel(3) Saxton, 1653-1692, of Boston, Mass. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society). (Apr 1932), 53:145-46
   
   

Alexander Adams, b. _____? 1614 about, at Colchester, Eng., possibly; d. January 15 (or 17), 1677, at Boston, Mass., aged 63 and was buried in Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Mass., gravestone.
He lived in Boston and was a shipwright; he bought a house there in 1645; he was made a freeman of Boston, May 10, 1648; he was a member of the Artillery Company in 1652; he was a member of the First Church, Boston, he and his wife having been admitted to communion therein 31 (3) 1646; he was dismissed to the church at Dorchester for a season.
His children are all recorded as born in Boston (Savage, however, states that his second child (Susanna Adams) was born in Dorchester). Administration on his estate was granted having been admitted to communion therein 31 (3) 1646; he was dismissed to the church at Dorchester for a season. His children are all recorded as born in Boston (Savage, however, states that his second child (Susanna Adams) was born in Dorchester).

Administration on his estate was granted unto his widow Feb. 28, 1677-8. Suffolk County, Mass., Deeds 13, pp. 222-23, gives the division of his estate as of August 28, 1684 [all of his children then being of mature age] amongst Caleb Stratton, William Parkman, Samuel Saxton and Samuel Adams, the only [surviving] son of Alexander Adams.

First Church of Boston

The first meeting house was built beginning August 1632 on the south side of State Street "where Brazer's Building now stands" (separating the congregation from those at Charlestown) This structure was consumed by fire in 1711.