The Descendants of William Adams

Citations

1. William Adams

¹Essex County, Massachusetts grantee index, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, FHL microfilm 862,800.
Rick Crume's file Co 513.
"1721 Jan. 9. William Adams from John Safford, vol. 40, page 6. Ipswich."

²Essex County, Massachusetts grantee index.
"1736 Apr. 24. William Adams from Nathaniel Adams, vol. 72, page 106, Ipswich."

³Essex County, Massachusetts grantee index.
"1746. William Adams from Nathaniel Fuller, vol. 89, page 118, Ipswich."

⁴Essex County, Massachusetts grantee index.
"1759 Apr. 16, Wiliam Adams from Thomas Dane, vol. 104, page 284, Ipswich."

⁵New Hampshire. Probate Court (Strafford County), Strafford County, New Hampshire, probate index, 1773-1892, Salt Lake City, Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, FHL film 16,472.
Rick Crume's file Co 374.
1775. William Adams, Moultonborough. Will, vol. 1, p. 114. Inventory, vol. 1, p. 116.

Mary Warner

¹New Hampshire. Registrar of Vital Statistics, Index to deaths, early to 1900, Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, FHL film 1,001,058.
Rick Crume's file Co 419.

William Whipple

¹Evans, Helen F., Abstracts of the probate records of Strafford County, New Hampshire, 1771-1799, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2nd ed., 1983, p. 188, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, FHL US/Can Book 974.25 P2e.
Rick Crume's file Co 459.
Sureties: Stephen & Rufus Adams, Moultonborough, husbandmen. Witnesses: Jere. Shaw, Stephen Adams & Rufus Adams.

7. William Adams

¹Ezra S. Stearns, History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, 1906, pp. 5-6, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, FHL film 1,697,592 item 2.
Rick Crume's file Co 361.
"John Adams, son of William, b. Ipswich, July, 1731, m. 1754, intentions July 20, Mary Lamson. He settled in Moultonboro’, 1768. In a list of settlers and improvements made in Moultonboro’, 1771, the brothers, William and John Adams, jointly, were proprietors of three dwelling-houses, a store, a barn, a smith-shop, a wharf and warehouse, one hundred acres of improved land, twenty-five head of cattle, ten sheep. At this time there were eleven persons in both families. In the Revolution he was commissioned, 1776, a lieutenant in the sixth company of Col. Badger’s regiment of militia, and the following year he was a lieutenant in Capt. Chase Taylor’s company, Col. Stickney’s regiment, Gen. Stark’s brigade, from July to September. He was a selectman of Moultonboro’, 1779, 1781, 1784. He d. 1814."

Mary

¹Ancestry World Tree, www.ancestry.com.
"William Adams, born 1722 in Ipswich, Mass., married Mary Batchelder. Their son William Adams was born in 1745 in Boston, Mass."