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Richard Adams

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Batcombe, Somerset, England
Death: August 06, 1674 (69)
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Adams, of Trent and Martha Adams
Husband of Mary Adams and Elizabeth Adams
Father of Mary ‘Cheame’ Clough; Sarah Counts; Samuel Adams; Ruth Grover and Hannah Wellman
Brother of Margaret Adams; Philip Adams; Christopher Adams; Joan Adams, Jr. and Philipa Adams

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About Richard Adams, of Malden

From Linda Mac at Find A Grave Memorial# 36840367

Richard Adams, born about 1606 (aged 29 in 1635). Planter from Batcombe, Somerset who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635. First settled in Weymouth; moved to Malden MA by about 1650. Died in Malden 6 October 1674.

MARRIAGES:

  • (1) By 1635 Mary (_____) Cheame. She died in 1642 or later.
  • (2) After 1642 Elizabeth _____. She died at Malden in November 1656.
  • (3) By 1662 Elizabeth _____.

JOHN UPHAM and Richard Adams sailed to New England on the same ship and resided in Weymouth until about 1650 when both moved to Malden. They or their children held adjoining land, and John Upham witnessed the will of Richard Adams.

Pope intermingled records for this man and for RICHARD ADAMS of Salem.

From http://genforum.genealogy.com/adams/messages/1863.html

He had the following children:

  1. Mary Cheame Adams b. ca 1634 Eng., d. Dec. 1, 1688 Charlestown, MA, marr. William Clough ca 1655.
  2. Sarah Adams b. July 3, 1637 Weymouth, Norfolk, MA marr. Edward Counts February 25, 1664, Malden, MA.
  3. Samuel Adams b. June 6, 1639 Weymouth, MA.
  4. Ruth Adams b. June 3, ca 1642 Weymouth, MA, died September 27, 1674 Malden, MA. Marr. Lazarus Grover Dec. 1665 Malden.

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Around March 20, 1635, Mary Clough (Adams Cheame) left Weymouth, Dorsetshire County, England, United Kingdom accompanied by her husband Richard Adams (29 Yrs) and infant daughter, Mary Cheame Adams (1 Yr) for Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America.. Richard was listed as a servant to William Read of Batcombe, Somerset County, England, United Kingdom.

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Richard Adams, of Malden's Timeline

1605
April 21, 1605
Batcombe, Somerset, England
1634
1634
Somerset County, England, United Kingdom
1637
July 3, 1637
Weymouth, Norfolk, MA, United States
1639
June 6, 1639
Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1642
June 3, 1642
Weymouth, Norfolk, MA, United States
1662
January 3, 1662
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1674
August 6, 1674
Age 69
Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States