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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jemima Adams: Birth: ABT 1675.

  2. Francis Adams: Birth: 1677 in Chester, England. Death: 16 APR 1758 in Kingston, Plymouth Colony, MA

  3. Richard Adams: Birth: ABT 1680.


Notes
a. Note:   A zealous Puritan, he came to New England between 1680 and 1685. His wife had previously died. In 1688 he purchased land from Robert Tufton-Mason, who had inherited the land from his grandfather, Capt. John Mason (who received it as a grant from the Council of Plymouth in1621). Mason owned all the land from (Salem) the Merrimack River to the sea, and part was sold (something over 10,000 acres) to Richard. As he planned to settle there, Richard sent for two of his children. Before Francis and Jemina arrived, their father, while trying to clear a part of the land for settlement, had been taken captive, bound hand and foot, fed a few parched corns daily until his suffering became extreme, asked the Indians to kill him, . They obliged. Jemima returned to Chester, escorted by her brother, who then returned to Boston. [Condensed from George Adams' "Descendants of Francis Adams of Kingston, Massachusetts, 1860.)
  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.
  BY JAMES SAVAGE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND EDITOR OF WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.



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