FAMILY BRANCHES -- not just lineage, but history
First Generation in
America
Henry
Adams I (1583-1646)
and wife Edith Squire (emigrated
from Braintree, England with their children (their sons; Lieutenant Henry Adams II
(1604-1676), Lieutenant Thomas Adams (1612-1688), Deacon Jonathan Adams
(1614-1690), Captain Samuel Adams
(1616-1688), Peter (1622-1690), John (1622-1706), Joseph Adams Senior (1626-1694), and Ensign Edward Adams (1629-1716), and
one daughter Ursula Adams(1619-1679) and settled in Massachusetts Colony in the
1630s.
SPECIAL FAMILY
CONNECTION NOTE:
Captain Samuel
Adams {one of the
sons of Henry Adams I and Edith Squire Adams} and his wife Rebecca Graves Adams
are the Eighth-Great-Grandparents of President John Calvin Coolidge Junior, the 30th President of the United States of
America.
President
John Calvin Coolidge Junior is
the only President to be sworn into office by his father. His parents were John Calvin Coolidge Senior
and Victoria Josephine Moor.
President
John Calvin Coolidge Junior shares
a common Delano ancestry with 32nd USA President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and 18th USA
President Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant). He shares a common Littlefield
ancestry with 13th USA President Millard
Fillmore. He shares a common Cogswell
ancestry with 2nd USA President John
Adams Junior and 6th USA President John Quincy Adams Senior as well
as with 31st USA President Herbert Clark Hoover's wife
Lou Henry Hoover. He shares a common
descent from Henry Squire with 2nd
USA President John Adams, 6th USA
President John Quincy Adams, 13th
USA President Millard Fillmore and 27th
USA President William Howard Taft. He
shares a common descent from William Talvas Le Despenser with 1st USA President George Washington, 32nd USA President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 29th USA President Warren Gamaliel Harding, 41st USA President George Herbert Walker Bush, and 43rd USA President George Walker Bush as well
as with Princess Diana (Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales), Prince
William, Duke of Cambridge (born William Arthur Philip Louis), Prince Harry of
Wales (born Henry Charles Albert David) and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill.
PERSONAL NOTE:
I share a common ancestry
and direct descent with the SPENCER lineage, JENNINGS / JENNENS lineage,
and PAYNE / PAINE lineage through my maternal First-Great-Grandmother Mary
Grace Jennings Scott (1872-1908) (her spouse is James Alfred Scott,
1864-1935) and First-Great-Grandmother Minerva Frances Hayes Bennett
(1853-1935) (her spouse is James Jones Bennett, 1851-1934). Both of my First Great Grandmothers were
farmers wives, lived near each other in Rosedale, Oklahoma, and went to the
same Church of Christ that their spouses built. Their children (Laurel Flynn Scott
1896-1979, son of Mary Grace and James Alfred Scott) and (Mary Elizabeth
"Betty" Bennett Scott 1897-1980, daughter of Minerva Frances and
James Jones Bennett) married and were my maternal Grandparents. My mother
Dorothy Helen Scott Tarr 1923-1982, was the third of seven children born to
Laurel Flynn Scott and Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Bennett Scott.
Source
Links
for above and Genealogical
relationships of USA Presidents:
SPECIAL FAMILY
CONNECTION NOTE:
Lieutenant
Henry Adams II (about 1604-1676), {one of the sons of Henry Adams I and Edith Squire Adams} on
17 Nov 1643 in Braintree, Massachusetts, married my maternal-eighth-great-grand-Aunt
Elizabeth Payne Adams (alternate spelling for "Payne" is "Paine")
(1620-1676) and settled in Medfield, Massachusetts. Moreover, Lieutenant
Henry Adams II and Aunt Elizabeth Payne Adams were also
the maternal-fifth-Great-Grandparents of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (10 Dec 1830 – 15
May 1886) {Emily is my maternal DNA Cousin and a much remembered and honored
female American poet}. Aunt Elizabeth
Payne Adams' older brother was John Payne (1615-1690), my
maternal-eighth-great-grandfather. The
father of the siblings John Payne and Elizabeth Payne Adams -- was ENSIGN Moses
Payne Esquire (1581-1643), my maternal-ninth-great-grandfather and Emily
Elizabeth Dickinson's maternal-sixth-great-grandfather. WHEW! The leaves on our FAMILY TREE are full of surprises!
Second Generation in
America
Son of Henry Adams I and Edith Squire
Adams: Captain Joseph Adams Senior
(1626-1691) married Abigail Baxter
Adams of Boston in 1650.
Third Generation in
America
Son of Joseph Adams Senior and Abigail
Baxter Adams: Joseph Adams Junior (1654-1705), was married three times. His first wife, Mary Chapin Adams, died in 1687; the following year he married Hannah Bass Adams (1662-1705), the
daughter of John Bass and Ruth Alden Bass. [SPECIAL
NOTE: Through Ruth Alden Bass, the
Adams' were descended from Mayflower Pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden.]
Joseph
Adams Junior's third wife, after the death of Hannah
Bass Adams, was Elizabeth Hobart Adams.
Fourth Generation in
America
Son of Joseph Adams Junior and Hannah
Bass Adams: John Adams Senior (born 1691– died 1761) who married Susanna Boylston Adams.
Fifth Generation in
America
Son of John Adams Senior and Susanna
Boylston Adams: President John
Adams Junior the SECOND PRESIDENT of the United States of America
(born 1735– died 1826) who married his third cousin Abigail Smith Adams Senior.
Sixth Generation in
America
Son of President John Adams Junior and Abigail Smith Adams Senior:
President John
Quincy Adams Senior the SIXTH PRESIDENT of the United States of America (1767-1848)
who married Louisa Catherine Johnson Senior.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
Here you have a Short Family Story
of my BELOVED Maternal Family Branch. This
story began before they were born and continues after their
passing, with their descendants and the many lives and hearts that they
"touched".
However, this is not the beginning for there are other family
members that traveled this path before, and this is not the end for new generations are yet to
come. This is just a short story for
those family members that are interested in OUR FAMILY STORY and HISTORY.
I feel very honored to be a
part of this FAMILY TREE.
I love being a part of the
history of this land.
I love that my family were
here before me ... and will be here after me.
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SOURCES and LINKS
(a)
USA President #2
-- John Adams Junior (term of office 1797-1801) born 30 Oct 1735 in
Braintree, Massachusetts [now called Quincy, Massachusetts], died at age 90 on 4
Jul 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts.
On 25 Oct 1764 at Weymouth, Massachusetts,
John Adams
Junior married his third cousin Abigail
Smith Adams Senior (born 1744 - died
1818), the daughter of Reverend William Smith, a Congregational minister.
The children of President John Adams Junior and Abigail Smith Adams Senior were: (NOTE: Abigail
gave birth to six children, of which four grew to adulthood.)
Abigail "Nabby"
Adams (1765-1813), who married William Stephens Smith and had four children: William Steuben Smith, John Adams Smith,
Thomas Hollis Smith, and Caroline Amelia Smith.
John Quincy Adams Senior (1767-1848), who became the SIXTH
PRESIDENT of the United States of America.
Susanna Adams (1768-1770).
Charles Adams (1770-1800), who married Sarah
Smith and had two children: Susanna
Boylston Adams and Abigail Louisa Adams.
Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832), who married Ann Harrod
and had seven children: Abigail Smith
Adams, Elizabeth Coombs Adams, Thomas Boylston Adams, Isaac Hull Adams,
John Quincy Adams, and Joseph Harrod Adams.
Elizabeth Adams (stillborn 1777 but never forgotten).
USA President John Adams Junior
was raised a Congregationalist,
since his ancestors were puritans. According
to his biographer David McCullough, "as
his family and friends knew, Adams was both a devout Christian, and an
independent thinker". In a
letter to Benjamin Rush, President John Adams Junior credited religion with the
success of his ancestors after their migration to the New World in the 1630s; see
below Henry
Adams I (1583-1646).
Historian Joseph Ellis has found that the
twelve hundred letters between President John Adams Junior and Abigail "constituted a treasure trove of unexpected
intimacy and candor, more revealing than any other correspondence between a
prominent American husband and wife in American history." Ellis (2011) says that Abigail, although
self-educated, was a better and more colorful letter-writer than President John Adams
Junior, even though he
was one of the best letter-writers of the age.
Ellis argues that Abigail was the more resilient and more emotionally
balanced of the two, and calls her one of the most extraordinary women in
American history.
On
July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of
Independence, President John Adams Junior died at his home
in Quincy, Massachusetts. Told that it
was the Fourth of July, he answered clearly, "It is a great day. It is a good day." His last words have been reported as
"Thomas Jefferson survives" (Jefferson himself, however, had died
hours before he did). President John
Adams Junior's death left Charles Carroll of Carrollton as the last
surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence. President John Adams Junior died while his son
President John
Quincy Adams Senior was president.
His
crypt lies at United First Parish Church
(also known as the Church of the Presidents) in Quincy, Massachusetts. Originally, President John Quincy Adams Senior
was buried in Hancock Cemetery,
across the road from the United First
Parish Church. Until his record was broken by Ronald Reagan
in 2001, President
John Quincy Adams Senior was the nation's longest-living President
(90 years, 247 days) maintaining that record for 175 years.
Abigail
Smith Adams Senior
was an advocate of married women's property rights and more opportunities for
women, particularly in the field of education.
Women, she believed, should not submit to laws not made in their
interest, nor should they be content with the simple role of being companions
to their husbands. They should educate
themselves and thus be recognized for their intellectual capabilities, so they
could guide and influence the lives of their children and husbands.
Abigail
Smith Adams Senior, as well as her husband President John
Quincy Adams Senior, was an active member of First Parish Church in Quincy, which became Unitarian in doctrine by 1753.
Like her husband President John Quincy Adams Senior, her
theological views evolved over the course of her life.
Abigail
Smith Adams Senior
counted among her ancestors the leaders of the Congregationalist Church
in the Massachusetts Colony and the prominent Quincy Family. Through the latter, she was a descendant of
the House of Beaufort, an illegitimate branch of the English House of
Plantagenet, making her a distant cousin to King George III, who was King of
the United Kingdom during the American Revolution.
Abigail
Smith Adams Senior
is the daughter of Reverend William Smith and his wife Elizabeth Quincy Smith. Abigail
was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1744, where her father was a Congregationalist
Minister. Abigail's mother, Elizabeth Quincy, was
born in 1721 in Braintree, Massachusetts, the daughter of John Quincy and
Elizabeth Norton. John Quincy was Speaker
of the Massachusetts Assembly and part of the Governor's council.
JUST A PERSONAL NOTE
HERE: I was
married to my spouse Dale Russell Jones Shoudy in the Congregational
Church in Belmont, California on 30 Nov 1963. Dale and I were divorced on 19 Jan 1979 in
San Jose, California.
Abigail Smith Adams Senior died on October 28, 1818, of
typhoid fever. She is buried beside her
husband President
John Quincy Adams Senior in a crypt located in the United First Parish Church (also known
as the Church of the Presidents) in
Quincy, Massachusetts. She was 73 years
old, exactly two weeks shy of her 74th birthday. Her last words were, "Do not grieve, my
friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to
go. And John, it will not be long."
The parents of President John Adams Junior are John Adams Senior (born 1691– died
1761) and Susanna Boylston Adams. While President John Adams Junior did not speak much
of his mother later in life, he commonly praised his father and was very close
to him as a child. President John Adams Junior's
birthplace is now part of Adams National
Historical Park.
John
Adams Senior was a farmer, a cobbler,
a Congregationalist
(that is, Puritan) deacon in his church, a
lieutenant in the militia and a selectman, or town councilman, who supervised
schools and roads. He was often referred to as "Deacon John,"
reflecting his religious role and differentiating him from his son President John
Adams Junior. John
Adams Senior's wife Susanna Boylston
Adams was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline.
John Adams Senior
(1691-1761), was the second-great-grandson of Henry Adams I (1583-1646), who emigrated from Braintree, Essex, England to Massachusetts
about 1640. Henry Adams I was born in 1583 in Barton, St. David,
Somersetshire, England. He died on
Saturday, 6 Oct 1646 at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony, at age
63 years, 8 months and 15 days and is buried in the Hancock Cemetery, Quincy,
Norfolk County, Massachusetts. His grave
marker is inscribed: "HERE LYETH THE BODY OF HENRY ADAMS FOUNDER OF THE
BRAINTREE BRANCH OF THE ADAMS FAMILY IN AMERICA BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY OCT. 8,
1846". Henry Adams Senior's Will was proved (called probated
today) 8 Jun 1647. Henry Adams Senior emigrated
from Somerset in England to Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1633 with his wife,
sons, and a daughter Ursula Adams. The
Colonial authorities at Boston allotted to Henry Adams Senior 40 acres of land
at Mount Wollaston, Massachusetts, which was incorporated in 1640 as Braintree
Township, Massachusetts, for the ten persons in his family, 24 Feb 1639-40. This land included what are now Quincy, Braintree,
and Randolph, in Massachusetts.
Henry Adams I was the youngest son of four children of John
Adams (1555-1604), also of Barton, St. David, Somersetshire, England, and Agnes
Stone Adams (about 1556 – 1615). Henry
Adams I married Edith Squire, daughter of Henry Squire. Their children: Lieutenant Henry Adams II (1604-1676), Lieutenant Thomas
Adams (1612-1688), Deacon Jonathan Adams (1614-1690), Captain Samuel Adams
(1616-1688), Ursula Adams Streeter Hosier Robinson Crafts (1619-1679), Peter
Adams (1622-1690), John Adams (1622-1706), Joseph Adams Senior (1626-1694), and Ensign Edward
Adams (1629-1716).
Henry Adams I and all his known ancestors were Yeomen famers
from Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England.
Henry Adams I was also a maltster {a person who makes or deals in malt}.
Henry Adams I with his large family seems to have preferred
settling near the coast and thus settled at Mount Wollaston, Massachusetts Colony (later called Braintree
and now called Quincy, Massachusetts), and became a farmer. Henry Adams I's biographers do not associate
him with the more radical and religious Puritans, nor with the liberal and
outlawed Pilgrims, but rather see him and other followers of Reverend John
White as adventurers, seeking a new world where the boundaries of a
class society could be overcome.
Henry Adams I's emigration to America was probably brought about through his
wife Edith Squire Adams' connection with Aquila Purchase and Thomas
Purchase, two of the leading parishioners and associates of Reverend John
White, Rector of Holy Trinity, Dorchester, organizer in 1623 of the "Dorchester Adventurers", and a
great advocate for the colonization of New England. Aquila Purchase was Master of Trinity
School in Dorchester, Dorset, England; emigrant to New England {USA}; and married
on 28 Jan 1614 to Ann Squire {sister of Edith Squire, who married Henry Adams I}.
Henry Adams I was also the paternal-second-great-grandfather of Samuel
Adams Junior (born 27 Sep 1722 – died 2 Oct 1803), the great patriot, orator,
statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, political
philosopher, one of the architects of the principles of American Republicanism,
and signer in 1776 of the Declaration of
Independence; and Samuel Adams Junior
was second cousin to President John Adams Junior (the second PRESIDENT of the USA). And, Joseph
Adams Senior (1625-1694) and his wife Abigail Baxter (1634-1692) were the
paternal grandparents of Samuel Adams
Junior.
There is a granite column
erected to Henry Adam Senior's memory by President John Adams Junior, his great-great-grandson,
with the following inscription:
"In Memory of HENRY ADAMS Who took his flight from the Dragon persecution
in Devonshire in England, and alighted with eight sons, near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England, and
after taking time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield and the
neighboring towns. Two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left
hand, remained here, who was an Original Proprietor in the Township of
Braintree, incorporated in 1639. This
stone and several others have been placed in this yard, by a great-great
grandson, from a veneration of the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence,
patience, temperance, frugality, industry and perseverance, of his Ancestors,
in hopes of recommending an imitation of their virtues to their posterity."
... Erected December 1823.
(b)
USA
President #6 -- President John
Quincy Adams
Senior (term of
office 1825-1829), born on 11 Jul 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts, died 23 Feb
1848 and buried at the First Parish
Church in Quincy, Massachusetts {son of USA President #2 John Adams
Junior and Abigail Smith
Adams). President John Adams Junior is
now part of Adams National Historical
Park and open to the public. John Quincy
Adams Senior was named for his
mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy,
Massachusetts, is named.
John Quincy Adams Senior married
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams SR (born
12 Feb 1775 London, England – died at age 77 on 15 May 1852 in Washington, D.
C.), the daughter of an American merchant, in a ceremony at the church of All
Hallows-by-the-Tower, London, England.
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams SR was sickly, plagued by migraine headaches
and frequent fainting spells. [JUST
A PERSONAL NOTE HERE: I have also been plagued by
migraine headaches, as were my maternal Grandfather Laurel Flynn Scott, and my
Aunt "Nette" Scott, daughter of Laurel Flynn Scott.] Louisa
Catherine had several miscarriages over the course of their marriage. President John Adams Senior and Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams SR had the following children:
- George
Washington Adams (1801–1829), lawyer
- John Quincy Adams
JR (1803–1834), presidential aide.
- Charles
Francis Adams (1807–1886), diplomat, public official, and author
- Louisa
Catherine Adams JR (1811–1812)
President John Adams Senior remains
the only president
to have a First Lady born outside of the United States. Louisa
Catherine Johnson Adams SR was First
Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829. President John Adams Senior and his father President John
Adams Junior, were the FIRST
FATHER AND SON Presidents of the United
States of America.
On 21 Feb 1848, the House of Representatives
was discussing the matter of honoring US Army officers who served in the
Mexican–American War. John Quincy
Adams Senior firmly opposed this idea, so when the rest of the house
erupted into 'ayes', he cried out, 'No!'
John
Quincy Adams Senior rose to answer a question put forth by the
Speaker of the House. Immediately
thereafter, Adams collapsed, having suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Two days later, on February 23, John Quincy
Adams Senior died with his wife and son at his side in the Speaker's
Room inside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. His last words were "This is the last of
earth. I am content." John Quincy Adams Senior passed away at 7:20
P.M on 23 Feb 1848.
President
John Quincy Adams Senior
and First Lady Louisa Catherine Johnson
Adams SR are entombed, as well
as John
Quincy Adams Senior's parents President John Adams Junior and First Lady Abigail Adams SR, in the United First Parish Church in Quincy,
Massachusetts (also known as the Church
of the Presidents). President
John Quincy Adams Senior s original
interment was temporary, in the public vault at the Congressional Cemetery in
Washington, D.C. Later, he was interred
in the family burial ground in Quincy across from the First Parish Church, called Hancock
Cemetery. After President John
Quincy Adams Senior wife's death, his son, Charles Francis Adams,
had him reinterred with his wife in the expanded family crypt in the United First Parish Church across the
street, next to his parents. Both tombs
are viewable by the public. President
John Quincy Adams Senior's original tomb at Hancock Cemetery is still there and marked simply "J.Q.
Adams".
SPECIAL NOTE:
In 1779, President John Quincy Adams Senior began
a diary that he kept until just before he died in 1848. The massive fifty volumes are one of the most
extensive collections of first-hand information from the period of the early
republic, and are widely cited by modern historians.
REMEMBERED
NOTE: President
John Quincy Adams Senior occasionally is
featured in the mass media. In the PBS
miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976), he was portrayed by David
Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover, and
Mark Winkworth. He was also portrayed by
Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon
Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams; the HBO
series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in
its portrayal.
(c)
Sources
of Adams Family lineage.
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