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(II) John, fifth of the ten children of Rob- ert and Sarah ( Pickett ) Lane, was lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment, having enlisted March 17, 1775. He was also in Captain Jon- athan Johnson's company of the Wadsworth brigade, having enlisted June 12 and discharged November 16, 1775. He was made a prisoner at Fort Washington. He re-enlisted under Captain Daniel Allen in Colonel Samuel Wylles third regiment of the Continental line and was transferred to the Georgia battalion in August, 1777. Also he was a soldier at the East Haven alarm, July 7, 1779, under Captain Bezaleel Bristol. He enlisted again July I and was discharged December 13 under Colonel Her- man Swift in the Seventeenth Regiment, they being the short levies in Connecticut, in 1780. On September 16, 1789, he was promoted to be corporal and served several years in Captain Abraham Pierson's Seventh Connecticut regiment. He was accidentally killed while drilling his company on the square in Killingworth. Ile married Experience Edgarton. Their children were: John, Jede- diah, Samuel. Hezekiah and Elisha.
( III) Samuel, third son of Captain John and Experience ( Edgarton ) Lane, married Abi- gail Norton, July 2. 1757, and lived in Salis- bury, Connecticut. Their children were : Sam- uel, Elisha, Abigail, Electa, Polly and Salome.
(1\') Elisha, second son of Samuel and Abi- gail ( Norton ) Lane, was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He lived in Salisbury and Bur- lington, Vermont. He lived in Burlington on the farm afterward owned by the Loomis family above the high bridge on the intervale. He married Charity Jacobs. Their children
were: Lovey, deceased when young ; Laura, Seymour, Burrill, Harry, Elisha, Charity, Mariah, Calista, Hyman and Hiram, twins, and Horace.
(V) Seymour, third child of the thirteen children of Elisha and Charity (Jacobs) Lane, was born in Newport, February, 1788. He was one of the organizers of the Congrega- tional church at Newport and was clerk of the same from 1831 to 1864. He was select- man in 1828-29. He married, January 1, 1815, Hetty Robinson. Their children were : George, Henry, Harriet, Cephas, Hiram B., who is sketched ·below : Augusta and Elisha.
(VI) Hiram B., fifth of the seven children of Seymour and Hetty ( Robinson) Lane, was born in Newport, August 17, 1824, died in Springfield, November 15, 1901. He was selectman of Newport in 1859. He married Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Bowley. She was born June 20, 1822, died September 4, 1862. He married (second ) Maria J. Hitch- cock, born March, 1834. Children by first wife: Marietta, born July 21, 1844, became the wife of Oscar D. Adams (see Adams). Elma, October 31, 1848. Olin H., February 21, 1855. Children by second marriage : Harry P., September 13, 1865. Harriet B., January 27, 1875.
ADAMS John Adams removed from Bow- doin to Litchfield, Maine, in 1813, with his wife, whose maiden name was Rebecca Tarr, and three sons, James, Daniel and John. He died in Litchfield in 1830. ( II) James, son of John and Rebecca (Tarr) Adams, was born in Bowdoin, in 1787, and died at the home of his son James, in Iowa. May 8, 1866, aged seventy-nine years. In early life he followed the sea a part of the time for some years, and being of a frugal disposition he saved a portion of each year's earnings. In 1813, with his father and brothers, he went to Litchfield, and after preparing a log cabin in the wilderness he took his family there and instituted a home. He was soon able to build comfortable buildings, and with the efficient and faithful aid of his good wife, in- creased his estate until he became one of the most independent and successful farmers in the town. He succeeded by most rigid economy and untiring industry, backed up by good judg- ment and sound New England sense. He was deeply interested in public affairs, state and national, and read much in the newspapers and in such books as came into his hands. Though at first opposed to prohibition, he carefully in-
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vestigated the claims put forward in its favor, and seeing its very beneficial effects in the community where he lived, he gave it his un- qualified support and became a "tetotaller," and so remained the rest of his life. He was one of the first to identify himself with the political party which declared against the ex- tension of slavery into free territory, and assisted in the organization of the Republican party in his town. He was a man of intense convictions, strong prejudices, active in mind, and possessing courage at all hazards. He was a good friend and an undesirable enemy ; appreciating kindness, resenting injury with fiery indignation ; a man who without a dollar to begin life with was ever able to command credit to any amount he desired. He married Mary Williams, who died November 3, 1863, aged seventy-one years. They had ten children who grew up on the old homestead and then scattered from Maine to California: I. Daniel, born December 1, 1812, lived near his father, and died December 5, 1852. He married Susan Harriman. 2. Lettice, April 13, 1814, married William Hale and moved to Fresno, California. 3. Mary Ann, October 27, 1815, married Wil- son Sandford, of Bowdoin. 4. Rufus W., Sep- tember 28, 1818, married Mary I. Clifford, is a builder, and lives in Bath. 5. Aaron, see below. 6. Margaret, March 28, 1822, married Dr. Isaac Rowell, lived first in Gardiner, Maine and then in San Francisco, California. 7. Janos L., July 19, 1824, married Mary Gan- non, and lived in Boston, Massachusetts. 8. Urial D., September 6, 1826, married Love L. Brackett and settled in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, where he became a successful con- tractor. 9. Melville W., April 6, 1832, married Mary C. Smith, and owns and occupies the homestead farm. 10. Franklin C., October 6, 1834, married Lectina Lewis.
(III) Aaron, third son of James and Mary ( Williams) Adams, was born in Litchfield, December 28, 1819, died in Harpswell in 1860. He carried on the lumber business in Litch- field, and afterward conducted a hotel at Bruns- wick, and later in Harpswell. In religious faith he was a Universalist, and in politics a Whig. He married, in Brunswick, Frances Ann Niles, born in Topsham, July 27, 1821, and is still living (1909). She is the daughter of James Erastus and Deborah (Gannon) Niles, of Turner. James Erastus Niles was a fifer at the age of twelve in the war of 1812. His parents, James and Mercy Niles, lived in Turner. The children of Aaron and Frances A. (Niles) Adams were: I. Aaron Alphonso.
2. Georgiana, who married George H. Say- ward, of Dover, New Hampshire, and now resides in Winchester, Massachusetts. 3. Ed- win Boardman, next mentioned.
(IV) Dr. Edwin Boardman, youngest child of Aaron and Frances Ann ( Niles) Adams, was born in Brunswick, Maine, October 20, 1851. He received his literary education in the public schools, attending the high school of Bath from the age of twelve to fifteen. In 1866 he left Bath and went to Waltham, Mass- achusetts, where he was employed two years as a dial-painter in a watch factory. The two or three years next following he was employed in a store in Boston. In 1872 he engaged at his trade in the Springfield watch factory and was employed there till 1879. In 1876 he decided to study medicine, and for that purpose entered the office of Dr. George E. Foster, of Spring- field, and read four years, as he had leisure, all the time attending to his work in the factory. In 1879 he left the factory and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York, for his final course, from which he re- ceived his degree March 13, 1880. He im- mediately engaged in the practice of medi- cine and surgery in Springfield, and by labor and skill has secured an honorable position and a large practice. He was visiting sur- geon three years and did all the operating at Mercy Hospital for three months of each year, and is now consulting surgeon in that institution. He is a member of the Springfield Academy of Medicine, the Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, and the American Medical Asso- ciation. In politics he is independent. He married, April 30, 1884, Mrs. Jane Kent, whose maiden name was Kirby. She was born in Leeds, England, and came to America when a small child in 1857.
( II) Joseph Adams, son of Henry ADAMS Adams (q. v.), born in England, 1626, died in Braintree, Massa- chusetts, December 6, 1694. He was a malster. He was admitted a freeman in 1653; was select- man 1673. His will was dated July 18, 1694; proved January 10, 1695. He married, in Brain- tree, November 26, 1650, Abigail Baxter, died in Boston, August 27, 1692, aged fifty-eight, daughter of Gregory and Margaret ( Paddy) Baxter, of Boston. Children, born in Brain- tree: I. Hannah, born November 13, 1652; married, April 10, 1672, Deacon Samuel Savil; died September 15, 1726. 2. Joseph, born Octo- ber or December 24, 1654; mentioned below. 3. John, born February 13, 1656, died January
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27, 1657. 4. Abigail, born February 27, 1658; married John Bass ; died October 26, 1696. 5. Captain John, born December 20, 1661 ; mar- ried first, Hannah Webb; second, October 19, 1694, Hannah Checkley ; was sea captain and merchant. 6. Bethia (twin), born December 20, 1661 ; married, May, 1680, John Webb. 7. Mary, born September 8, 1663, died young. 8. Samuel, born September 3, 1665, died young. 9. Mary, born February 25, 1667-78; married Deacon Samuel Bass ; died March 9, 1706. 10. Captain Peter, born February 7, 1669-70 ; mar- ried, February 12, 1695, Mary Webb. II. Jon- athan, born January 31, 1671. 12. Mehitable, born November 23, 1673; married, July 21, 1697, Thomas White, Jr. ; died October 2, 1713.
(III) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( I) Adams, born in Braintree, October or December 24. 1654, died there February 12, 1736-37. He resided in Braintree, and was selectman in 1673 and 1698-99. Joseph Adams and John Bass were credited to Braintree for services in the war with the Indians in August, 1676. He married first, February 20, 1682, Mary Chapin, born August 27, 1662, died June 14, 1687. He married second, 1688, Hannah Bass, born June 22, 1667, died October 24, 1705, daughter of John and Ruth ( Alden) Bass. He married third, Elizabeth Hobart, died February 13, 1739, aged seventy-one, daughter of Caleb Hobart of Braintree. Children of first wife: I. Mary, born February 6, 1683, died January 30, 1733-34; married, April, 1714, Ephraim Jones, Jr., of Braintree. 2. Abigail, born Feb- ruary 17, 1684, died April 28, 1722; married, February 5, 1713, Seth Chapin, Jr. Children of second wife: 3. Rev. Joseph, born January 4, 1688; married first, October 13, 1720, Mrs. Elizabeth Janvrin ; second, January 3, 1760, Elizabeth Brackett ; graduate of Harvard, 1710. 4. Deacon John, born February 8, 1691-92; mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born January 28, 1694, died July 17, 1751 ; married, October 6, 1720, Sarah Paine. 6. Josiah, born February 18, 1696, died July 30, 1802 ; married, Novem- ber 25, 1718, Bethia Thompson. 7. Hannah, born February 21, 1698; married, February 4, 1725, Benjamin Owen. 8. Ruth, born March 21, 1700 ; married, November 21, 1731, as sec- ond wife, Rev. Nathan Webb ; resided at Ux- bridge. 9. Bethia, born June 13, 1702 ; married, April 28, 1737, Ebenezer Hunt, as second wife. 10. Captain Ebenezer, born December 30, 1704, lied August 6, 1769 ; married, 1728-29, Anna Boylston. Child of first wife: II. Caleb, born May 26, 1710, died June 4, 1710.
(IV) Deacon John Adams, son of Joseph
(2) Adams, born in Braintree, February 8, 1691-92, died May 25, 1761 ; married, October 31, 1734, Susanna Boylston, born March 5, 1699, died April 17, 1797, daughter of Peter and Ann ( White) Boylston, of Brookline. He was a cordwainer and farmer, and resided at Braintree. Children, born in Braintree: I. President John, born October 19, 1735; men- tioned below. 2. Captain Peter Boylston, born October 16, 1738; married, August 20, 1768, Mary Crosby ; died June 2, 1823. 3. Captain Elihu, born May 29, 1741 ; married, 1765, Thank- ful White.
(V) President John (2) Adams, son of Dea- con John Adams, was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, October 19, 1735. He graduated at Harvard College in 1755, and taught school and studied law at Worcester for two years. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1758, and began practice in Boston, re- siding at Braintree until 1768, when he removed to Boston. He was employed as counsel, to- gether with Jeremiah Gridley, the head of the Boston bar, and James Otis, the orator, to pre- sent a petition to the governor and council that the courts might proceed with business, though no stamps were to be had, and he was chosen one of a committee to draft instructions to the representatives of the town. In 1770 he was chosen a representative in the general court, a
position which he occupied for a number of years, though his practice was larger than that of any other lawyer in the province. He was conspicuous as an adviser and leader of the patriot party. He was one of five delegates chosen by Massachusetts to the congress of 1774 at Philadelphia ; was a member of the provincial congress on his return, and in 1775 was again chosen a delegate to the second con- tinental congress. The war had already begun, and Washington was chosen commander-in- chief. Adams was a leading spirit, and upon him devolved the presidency and the burden of the board of war, which won for him the en- comium of "the clearest head and firmest heart of any man in Congress." He went abroad as commissioner to France in February, 1778, and for the next ten years much of his time was spent in the service of his country, as commis- sioner to France, minister to England and to Holland. Through his efforts a loan of two million dollars was negotiated in Holland, which proved of great value. He was vice-president with Washington from 1789 to 1797, and presi- dent from 1797 to 1801. He then returned to his large farm and home in Quincy, where he passed the remainder of his life, devoted mainly
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to writing, and died July 4. 1826, a few hours after the death of his former associate and friend, Thomas Jefferson. His son wrote of him: "In figure, John Adams was not tall, scarcely exceeding middle height, but of stout, well-knit frame, denoting vigor and long life, yet as he grew old, inclining more and more to corpulence. His head was large and round, with a wide forehead and expanded eyebrows. His eye was mild and benignant, but when excited, expressed the vehemence of his spirit." He has been described as a man of greater learning and force than any of his contempor- aries, but of ungovernable temper and undue self-esteem. His services to his country were of inestimable value. He married, February 24 ( October 25?), 1764, Abigail Smith, born No- vember 23, 1744, died October 28, 1818, daugh- ter of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. She is described as a woman of superior abilities and great good sense. Her letters, written to her husband during the revolution, are interesting and valuable for the light they throw on the life of that period. Children: I. Abigail, born in Braintree, July 14, 1765, died August 15, 1813; married Hon. Henry William Smith, pri- vate secretary of President Adams, and ap- pointed by him surveyor of the port of New York. 2. Hon. John Quincy, born July II, 1767 ; mentioned below. 3. Susanna, born in Boston, December 28, 1768, died February 4. 1770. 4. Charles, born in Boston, May 29, 1770, died November 30, 1800; married, Au- gust 29, 1795, Sarah Smith ; graduated at Har- vard, 1789; was a lawyer in New York. 5. Hon. Thomas Boylston, born in Quincy, Sep- tember 15, 1772, died March 12, 1832 ; married, May 16, 1805, Ann Harrod ; graduated at Har- vard, 1790; was chief justice of supreme court of Massachusetts.
(\'T) Hon. John Quincy Adams, LL. D., son of President John (2) Adams, was born in the south house on Franklin street, Quincy, July 11, 1767. He began his public career in early boyhood, going abroad with his father when ten years old. He served as private secretary to the minister to Russia when he was only fif- teen years old. Much of his education was obtained in European courts and capitals. He entered Harvard College in 1786 and graduated in 1788; studied law for three years in the office of Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons, at Newburyport, and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He opened an office and began practice, but in 1794 was appointed minister to the I lague by Washington, and in 1796 minister to
Portugal. By the written advice of Washing- ton, his father, on becoming president, made him minister to Berlin, whither he went soon after being married in London, in the fall of 1797. He resided several years in Berlin, per- fecting his knowledge of the German language, negotiating treaties of commerce with Sweden and Prussia, and travelling. A volume of his letters on Silesia, the New England of Europe, written to his friends at home, was published and extensively circulated. Returning to Bos- ton he was elected a member of the Massachu- setts senate in 1802, and to the United States senate in 1803. His ardent support of the meas- ures of President Jefferson led to his defeat for a second term. President Madison appointed him ambassador to Russia, and while serving in that capacity he was joined by Clay and Galla- tin on the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace at Ghent. December 24, 1814. He remained in London as minister of the United States, but returned to become secre- tary of state to President Monroe in 1817. He was elected to the presidency in 1824 and served one term. Upon his retirement he was chosen to represent his district in congress, which he entered in December, 1831, and where he continued till his death. During his term as president both senate and house were against him, and no measures of importance were enacted on that account. The best work of his life was done after he was elected to congress, where he stood as champion of his own inde- pendent thought and the rights of the people. He was heard, whenever he spoke in congress, with respect and attention and exerted a power- ful influence. He was especially distinguished for his fearless and eloquent advocacy of the right of petition for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, which had been denied by the dominating politicians, and which no other had the courage to defend. He continued at his post till an advanced age, and became known as "the Old Man Eloquent," and died in the capitol, suddenly, February 23, 1848, and his last words were "This is the last of earth ; I am content."
He married, in London, July 26, 1797. Louisa Catherine Johnson, died 1852, daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Maryland, who was at that time American Consul at London. Children : 1. George Washington, born in Berlin, Prussia, April 13, 1801 ; graduated from Harvard 1821 ; lawyer ; unmarried ; lost on a steamer off Long Island Sound, April 30, 1829. 2. John, born in Boston, July 4, 1803, died October 23, 1834; married, 1826, in the White House, Washing-
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ton, his cousin, Mary Helen Adams. 3. Hon. Charles Francis, born August 18, 1807 ; men- tioned below. 4. Louisa Catherine, born at St. Petersburg, 1811, died young.
(VII) Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL. D., son of John Quincy Adams, was born in Boston, August 18, 1807, and died there No- vember 21. 1886. He resided much of his earlier life with his parents in Europe, and early became master of several of the modern European languages. He returned and grad- uated at Harvard College in 1825, soon after his father was inaugurated president. ' He studied law in the office of Daniel Webster in Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk county in 1828. He was a member of the Whig party and of the Massachusetts legisla- ture from 1831 to 1836. He was nominated for the vice-presidency by the Free Soil Repub- licans on the ticket with Martin Van Buren in 1848 : elected to congress from the third district of Massachusetts in 1858, and re-elected in 1860. President Lincoln appointed him min- ister to England in 1861, where he continued till 1868, a position which his father and grand- father had filled before him, and which now re- quired the highest order of diplomatic ability. Mr. Adams acquitted himself with great firm- ness and success through the most trying con- ditions, and proved himself an American of great patriotism and diplomatic ability. He married, September 3, 1829, Abigail B. Brooks, born in Medford, April 25. 1808, died June 6, 1889, youngest daughter of Peter C. Brooks, of Boston. Children, all but the last born in Bos- ton : I. Louisa Catherine, born August 13, 1831, died July 13, 1870; married, April 13, 1854. Charles Kuhn, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. 2. Hon. John Quincy, born September 22. 1833, died July 16. 1894 ; married, April 29, 1861, Fanny Cadwalader Crowninshield, of Boston ; graduated at Harvard, 1853 ; lawyer ; member of corporation of Harvard College. 3. Hon. Charles Francis, LL. D., born May 27, 1835 : married. November 8, 1864, Mary Ogden ; graduated at Harvard, 1856; in civil war ; mem- ber of corporation of Harvard College. 4. Professor Henry, born February 16, 1838; married, June 27. 1862, Miriam Hooper ; grad- uated at Harvard, 1858; became professor in Harvard : author of historical works. 5. Arthur, born July 23. 1841, died February 9, 1846. 6. Mary. born February 19, 1846; married, June 20. 1877. Dr. Henry P. Quincy. 7. Brooks, born in Quincy. June 24. 1848 ; married Evelyn, daughter of Admiral Charles Henry Davis. U.
S. N. ; graduated at Harvard 1870 ; lawyer and author : resides in Washington, D. C. ; no issue.
John Whitcomb, immigrant
WHITCOMB ancestor of this family in America, was undoubtedly of English birth, and the name was originally Whetcombe. He was long supposed to be the son of Symon Whetcombe, who was one of the original patentees of the old Massachusetts Bay Colony, but the publication of the will of John Whetcombe of Sherbourne, Dorsetshire, Eng- land, probated in 1598. shows that Symon was then a minor, and that he could not have been the father of the American progenitor, who was born about 1588. Some authorities believe that the American John was brother of Symon, and the John Whetcombe mentioned in the will of Symon's father.
John Whitcomb settled in Dorchester, Mass- achusetts, and was a church member there in 1635; this and the birth of his youngest son Josiah, in 1638, are the only events of his family life recorded during the years he spent in Dorchester. Later evidence shows him to have been well-to-do for the times, a man of intelligence and enterprise, much given to buy- ing and selling land. In 1640 he removed to Scituate, where he owned land, one piece being a farm of one hundred and eight acres near the mouth of the North river, on the Marsh- field side, and after 1646, when he became one of the Conihasset partners, he owned the lands which through that transaction became his share. While in Scituate he was constable, then one of the most important offices. He was admitted a freeman June 3, 1652. In 1644 he sold his farm on North river to Thomas Hicks; in 1654 he sold half his share in Coni- hasset lands to John Williams, Jr., giving the other half to his son Robert. In the same year he removed to Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he had bought a share two years before, when the town was laid out. Not all his children accompanied him thither ; Catherine married and settled in Scituate; Robert remained in Scituate and settled in Boston. John Whit- comb and his son John are counted among the pioneer settlers of the town of Lancaster, originally the Nashaway Plantation. The home- stead of John, Sr., was on lot No. 33; John, Jr., had lot No. 34. The present post office and bank building in Lancaster is on the origi- nal house lot.
He died September 24. 1662, aged about
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seventy-four years. He married in England, Frances who made a will May 12, 1671, and died at Lancaster May 17, 1671. The agreement of division of John Whitcomb's estate has the name spelt by his own children three different ways-Wetcomb, Whetcomb and Whitcomb, October 7, 1662. Children: I. Catherine, married, 1644, Rodolphus Ellmes, of Scituate, nine children. 2. James, born in England, settled in Boston ; owned five acres of land opposite Boston Common ; died in Bos- ton, November 23, 1686 ; married first, Rebecca , second Elizabeth - -; had ten chil- dren. 3. John, Jr., may have been the eldest son, and was most closely associated in later life with his father; married May 19, 1669 or 1671 ; died April 7, 1683, leaving wife Mary and two daughters. 4. Robert, remained at Scituate ; married Mary, daughter of General James Cudworth, in Rhode Island ; they were the first to settle in the Beeches, the family place at Scituate. 5. Jonathan, born about 1630, in England ; settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and Wethersfield, Connecticut. 6. Abigail. 7. Job, land surveyor at Lancaster ; married, May 19, 1669, Mary - --; settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut. 8. Josiah, mentioned below.
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