William "Mack" Adams

William was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

The children of William and Elizabeth (Boyd) Adams were Richard, John, Philip, Amy (m. Edward Oaks), Susan (m. John Rogers).

Sources

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (A000780 http://www.dar.org/ : accessed September 1, 2016), "Record of William Adams ", Ancestor # A000780.

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ohn Adams of Halifax County, Virginia Excerpt from A History of Halifax County Virginia, by Wirt Johnson Carrington, 1924 Appeals Press, Richmond, VA

Chapter IX. Families (pp 102-105)

ADAMS

The Adams family is of Welsh extraction, and the first American ancestor of which we have any reliable account is of John Adams, who came from Wales during the first half of the eighteenth century, and settled in Maryland from whence he came to Virginia. He had three sons, Sylvester, Phillip, and John. This second John Adams came to Halifax County, Virginia, about the time of its organization (1752). He married Susan Wood, daughter of Richard Wood, of Brunswick County, as shown by his will recorded April 24 and proved September 4, 1746 in Brunswick county.

Many of the descendent of the Adams family migrated to Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, and other States, but Halifax has retained enough of the to illustrate their honorable and uprightness of character.

William Adams, the eldest son of John and Susan (Wood) Adams, was born in Halifax County about 1756; he lived out his days in Black Walnut neighborhood, and died September 10, 1839 at age 83. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and in his old age delighted to recur to the stirring events of that period in which he had participated.

Three Adams brothers married daughters of George Boyd. William married Elizabeth, Sylvester married Rebecca, and Richard married Hannah Boyd.

..... further details of descendents of Richard, son of William, son of John, son of emigrant are found on subsequent pages

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