Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 49

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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deen, have made additions and modifications of the original coat-of-arms. A number of mottoes have been used by the Leslies : "Grip Fast," "Probitas et Firmitas," "Crescat Deo Promotore :" "Mens Cujusque is est Quisque ;" A large number of the families spell the name Lesly and bear similar arms. The oldest coat seems to be that of the Earl of Rothes: Ar on a bend Azure three buckles or. Crest-a demi- griffin ppr. supporters-two griffins per fesse ar and gu. . Motto "Grip Fast."

Duncan Leslie, son of Donald Leslie, was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where his father settled. He died in November, 1902. In ear- ly life he removed from Nova Scotia to Chel- sea, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Talbot, who died in 1905. She was also born in Pictou, daughter of James and Catherine (Smith) Talbot. Her father was a ship car- penter. Children: I. Alexander, born Octo- ber 23, 1857, married Annette Bennett; re- sides in Chelsea, Massachusetts. 2. James William, born November 4, 1861, mentioned below. 3. Lillie, born September 7, 1865, married Henry M. Wells, and lives in Chel- sea.

James William Leslie, son of Duncan and Elizabeth (Talbot) Leslie, was born in Chel- sea, Massachusetts, November 4, 1861, and was there educated in the public schools. He is a manufacturer of brass goods, and controls valuable patents on machines for lining cas- kets and boxes. He resides in Malden. He is a member of Star of Bethlehem Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Waverly Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons; Winnesummit Lodge, No. 24, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Friendship Lodge, Knights of Py- thias; and the Royal Arcanum. He is a Uni- versalist in religion, is a member of the Uni- salist Men's Club of Malden, and in politics is a Republican. He married Nellie Josephine Burbeck, born December 22, 1861, daughter of Francis Albert Burbeck. They have one son, Graham Porter Leslie, born September 3, 1890.

BACON Captain Michael Bacon, the first American ancestor of the Ba- cons of New England, came with his wife and a family of four sons and daughters from Ireland to the town upon Charles river (Watertown), in Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1630, and settled there first, and in the town of Dedham on the establish- ment of that town from the common land of the Colony, September 8, 1636, being one of

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the original incorporators of the town by the establishment of the First Church in Ded- ham.

(II) Michael Bacon, son of Captain Mi- chael Bacon, came with his father, mother and three other children to Mount Auburn, Watertown, on the Charles river, in 1630, and removed with them to the newly established town of Dedham in 1636. He married, had six children, including a son Michael, and died in Dedham in 1690.

(III) Michael Bacon, eldest son of Michael and grandson of Captain Michael the immi- grant, was born in Dedham, in 1639. He served as a captain in King Philip's war, not leaving the service in the militia until after the death of King Philip in 1676, and during his term of service thirteen thriving towns in New England were destroyed by the Indians, and more than six hundred of the young men who had been impressed in the service against King Philip had been killed.

(IV) Joseph Bacon, son of Michael and Abigail (Taylor) Bacon, married Eunice Ba- con, and died in 1786, in the town of Lincoln.

(V) Joseph Bacon, son of Joseph and Eun- ice (Bacon) Bacon, was born in Lincoln, in 1756, married Martha Bent, served in the Revolutionary war, and died in 1788. They had children, including Rebecca and Joseph. Their daughter Rebecca married William Stevens, of Bath, Maine, and was the mother of William Bacon Stevens (1815-1887) fourth bishop of Pennsylvania, and seventy-first in succession to the American Episcopate.

(VI) Joseph Bacon, son of Joseph and Martha (Bent) Bacon, was born in Lincoln, Middlesex county, in 1792. He was a mer- chant in Newton, Massachusetts, married Beulah Crafts Fuller, of Charlestown, (No. 4) Vermont, and was a member of the Congre- gational church of Newton. They had ten children, and in 1898 the only surviving member of these children was Benjamin Franklin Bacon, of Newton, Massachusetts.

(VII) Benjamin Franklin Bacon, son of Jo- seph and Beulah Crafts (Fuller) Bacon, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, January 2, 1828. He was educated at the grammar school of Newton and at Framingham Acad- emy. He left school to accept the position of messenger in the Newton Bank in 1846, and he was still with the bank in 1907, having been promoted through the successive grades of messenger, clerk, assistant cashier in 1875, and to vice-president in 1900. He was treas- urer of the Newton and Watertown Gas Light Company for thirty-three years. He was

married November 15, 1855, to Adaline E., daughter of Daniel and Lucy Learned of Wa- tertown, Massachusetts, who resided in that part of the town set off as a part of the town of Belmont, March 18, 1859. He is with his wife and family, an attendant of the Eliot Congregational Church of Newton, and prom- inent in the affairs of that church by reason of his liberality and willingness to serve. He has been a member of the prudential commit- tee for many years, and active in the promo- tion of the good work undertaken and carried out by the parish, including the building of the beautiful new church edifice that ranks as one of the best examples of church architec- ture in' New England, with the best arranged system of connecting rooms for Sunday school and parochial work under modern in- stitutional schools. He is also an active mem- ber of the Newton Congregational Club. His home on the ancestral estate and in the old- fashioned house on Washington street, New- ton, has gathered the members of many nota- ble family reunions. The children of Benja- min Franklin and Adaline E. (Learned) Ba- con are: I. Charles Franklin Bacon, born at the ancestral home in Newton, prepared for college in the grammar and high schools of Newton, and graduated at Harvard Univer- sity, Bachelor of Arts, 1882. He is an officer in the Newton National Bank, of which his father is vice president. 2. Edward Learned Bacon, born in Newton, Massachusetts, a pu- pil in the public schools of Newton, graduat- ing at the Newton high school, and on leav- ing school became a clerk in the Newton Na- tional Bank, of which he was an officer in 1907.

Ralph Hill, the immigrant ances-

HILL tor, was born in England. The family tradition that he was from Billericay, England, is probably correct. There was a clergyman of the same name in county Essex, England, in 1645; wife Persis, had a daughter Sarah baptized at Shalford, August I0, 1645; was at Ridgwell in 1650. "a godly preaching minister ;" afterwards at Pattiswick where he was ejected and in 1669 was re- ported as at Sheldon, "having a conventicle there."

Ralph Hill of this pedigree settled first at Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1638; sold land September 16, 1643, for twelve pounds to Stephen Wood, house and garden, "upland at Wobbery" twelve acres or there- abouts ; and soon after we find him in Wo-

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burn, Massachusetts, where he was a proprie- tor in 1643, freeman May 26, 1647, selectman in 1649. He was one of the founders of the town of Billerica in 1654; joined in the settle- ment and lived on the "Farm" a mile south- west of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where Mrs. Judkins, his de- scendant, lately lived. In. April, 1663, he gave to the town one-half acre of land for a bury- ing ground, and he died on April 29 following, doubtless the first person buried in the new graveyard, known as the old south cemetery. His wife died and he married (second), De- cember 21, 1638, Margaret Toothaker, widow of Roger Toothaker. She died November 22, 1683, aged eighty-eight. His will is dated November 18, 1662, and was proved Novem- ber 12, 1663, bequeathing to wife Margaret; children Ralph, Martha, Rebecca, Nathaniel and Jonathan; grandchildren Mary Littlefield and Elizabeth Hill; son-in-law, Roger Tooth- aker. Children: I. Jane, born in England, married Francis Kittridge. 2. Ralph, married, November 15, 1660, Martha Toothaker. 3 Martha. 4. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 5. Jonathan, born April 20, 1646, married, De- cember II, 1666, Mary Hartwell. 6. Rebecca, married Caleb Farley.

(II) Nathaniel Hill, son of Ralph Hill (I), was born probably at Plymouth, Massachu- setts. Married, June 21, 1667, Elizabeth Holmes, probably daughter of Robert Holmes, of Cambridge. She died October 9, 1685; he died May 14, 1706. Children: I. Nathaniel, born March 31, 1668. 2. Ralph, born October 14, 1669, died April 23, 1742. 3. John, born May 27, 1671. 4. Joseph, born March 18, 1672-73, mentioned below. 5. James, born December 10, 1675. 6. Jane, born December 15, 1680, died November 15, IZII. 7. Anna, born June 9, 1682, died June IO. 8. Abigail, born December 26, 1683.

(III) Joseph Hill, son of Nathaniel Hill (2), was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, March 18, 1672-73. Married Susanna Bald- win, daughter of John Baldwin. He was lieu- tenant of the Billerica company; died April 19, 1752. His widow died January 15, 1758. Children : I. Susanna, born February 18, 1704- 05, married Daniel Proctor. 2. Elizabeth, born December 10, 1706, married Benjamin Shed. 3. Joseph, born March 13, 1708-09. 4. Mary, born December 6, 1710. 5. Jane, born Novem- ber 7, 1712. 6. Ebenezer born July II, 1714. 7. John, born April 18, 1716. 8. Jonathan, born April 28, 1718, mentioned below. 9. Es- ther, born February 21, 1720-21, died April 27, 1736.

(IV) Jonathan Hill, son of Joseph Hill (3), was born in Billerica, April 28, 1718. Married, January 13, 1746, Mary Lane, of Bedford, Massachusetts. She died October 24, 1772, aged forty-seven. He married (sec- ond), May 24, 1774, Sarah Whiting, widow of Samuel. She died August 16, 1778, aged for- ty-two. He died April 7, 1796. Children : I. Ralph, born September 20, 1747, married, April 9, 1777, Mary Jones ; resided in Ashby. 2. Mary, born October 21, 1748, married, June 19, 1777, Oliver Pollard, of Bedford. 3. Martha, born 'March 4, 1749, died April 13, 1750. 4. Susanna, born January 22, 1750-51, died November 18, 1817. 5. Benjamin, born June 30, 1752, died April 10, 1796. 6. Job, born May 29, 1754. 7. Lucy, born January 14, 1756, married, October, 1814, Isaac Tay- lor. 8. Josiah, born December 10, 1757, men- tioned below. 9. Elizabeth, born October 13, 1759, died May 20, 1830. IO. Isabel, born December 3, 1761, married, May 26, 1785, Benjamin Lane, of Ashburnham. II. Jona- than, born September 8, 1763. 12. Jane, born December 17, 1764. 13. Anna, born June II, 1766, married Abner Stearns.

(V) Josiah Hill, son of Jonathan Hill (4), was born in Billerica, December 10, 1757. Married, June 8, 1789, Susanna Davis, daugh- ter of Daniel Davis, of Bedford. He settled in Bedford in 1789 at the time of his marriage. In the old house in which he lived was a sec- ret apartment known as "Grimes Hole." The tradition is that in the days of Indian alarms a man named Grimes lived on this farm and had a secret hiding place built. The old house was used not only as a dwelling but as a place for curing hops, this crop being much culti- vated on this farm. He rented a house and land of Abigail Otis in 1798. It appears that Josiah Hill was one of the aristocracy of that time, as he was taxed in September, 1800, "a duty of three dollars upon a two-wheel car- riage, called a chaise, owned by him, with a top, to be drawn by one horse, for the convey- ance of persons." The estate remained in the Hill name until about 1885. Josiah Hill died at Bedford, March 15, 1840; his wife Febru- ary 15, 1818. (See gravestone). Children, born in Bedford : I. Josiah, born July II, 1791, was clergyman at Methuen, Massachusetts, in 1832, later at Lynnfield Massachusetts. 2 . Joseph, born February 23, 1793, married Su- san Bacon, of Bedford; died March 4, 183I. 3. Elijah Bacon, born April 24, 1795, mar- ried Lucy Johnson ; died March 29, 1865. 4. Susannah, born April 30, 1798, married Dea- con Joel Fitch. 5. Lucy, born December 12,

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1800, died July 30, 1801. 6. Lucy, born July 27, 1802, died September 25, '1807. 7. Arte- mas, born October 5, 1809. 8. Constantine, born May 18, 1812, mentioned below.

(VI) Constantine Hill, son of Josiah Hill (5), was born in Bedford, May 18, 1812, and succeeded his father on the homestead in Bed- ford. He farmed and was very successful in fruit culture. He married (first), November 7, 1834, Martha Pratt, who died January 27, 1850, daughter of Stephen Pratt, of Dunstable, Massachusetts. He married (second) Sarah (Whitford) Webber, who died May 30, 1853. He married (third) Lucy Davis Richardson. He died August 25, 1872. Children : I. Martha Maria, born October 28, 1835, married Samuel Sage, of Bedford; (see sketch of Sage family). 2. Mary Ellen, born November 13, 1837, married John DeCamp, of Cincinnati, Ohio. 3. John Henry, born January 19, 1839, married Jennie Bulmer, of New Jersey. 4. William Warren, born July 3, 1844, married (first) -; (second) Mabel Price and has one child, Mabel Louise, born 1904. 5. George Worth, born February 10, 1846, married Ann M. Brown. 6. Sarah Adelaide, born Septem- ber 6, 1851, married Richard K. Anderson. 7. Josiah Constantine, born May 25, 1853, died young.

SAGE Samuel Sage, progenitor of this family, was born in Dundry, Eng- land, February 6, 1718. He was the son of Samuel Sage, grandson of Samuel Sage, great-grandson of Samuel Sage, and de- scended from a long English lineage, which is traced back for a period of eight hundred years. The ancient family seat was at Chew Magna, near Bristol, England.

(II) Samuel Sage, son of Samuel Sage (I), was born in 1752. Married Mary Cole, who died September 1, 1834, aged eighty years. His tombstone in the village burial ground in England reads: ""Sacred to the memory of Samuel Sage, late of Dundry, who died Feb- ruary 27, 1836, aged eighty-four years." His wife is buried by his side. Among their chil- dren was Samuel, mentioned below. The family estate was large, but it was sold after the death of Samuel (2), after being owned by the family for several centuries.

(III) Samuel Sage, son of Samuel Sage (2), was born in England, Friday, December 15, 1775. He came to America and settled in Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1800. He was a wheelwright by trade. He married, January 1, 1815, Lucy Porter, of Bedford. He died at

Bedford, April 8, 1860; his wife October 23, 1865. Children : I. Mary, born May 19, 1816. 2. Samuel, died young. 3. Samuel, born Sep- tember 28, 1826, mentioned below.

(IV) Samuel Sage, son of Samuel Sage (3), was born in Bedford, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 28, 1826. He was a farmer, and also a land surveyor of acknowledged ability. He was often honored by offices of trust and re- sponsibility. He enlisted in the Union army in July, 1864, for one hundred days, but was confined to the hospital most of the time on account of illness. He went to the front with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and had a sunstroke on the way thither. He recovered and joined his regiment, but had another attack and was again sent to the hospital. He never really recovered from the sunstroke, which was the ultimate cause of his death. He lived in Bedford until 1869, when he removed to Billerica. He was commander of the Grand Army post of Billerica, town assessor and overseer of the poor in Bedford, and for a period of twenty-one years a member of its school committee. He died at Billerica, No- vember 13, 1877.

He married, February 12, 1862, Martha M. Hill, daughter of Constantine Hill, of Bed- ford. (See sketch of Hill family herewith). She was a graduate of the Woburn public and high schools. She taught in the public schools of her native town five years, of Billerica eight years. She then resigned and made her home in Billerica, where she has since lived, de- voting her attention mainly to her gardens and to the care of her property. She was the successful competitor for the honor of writing the inscription on the soldiers' monument of Billerica. When her husband was sick in the hospital, she went to the front to nurse him and others in the hospital. Her experience is related in Brown's History of Bedford (page 71), a narrative full of interest, affording a striking picture of the darker side of army life, that of the hospital and of the wife who waits, worries and suffers. Children: I. Mary Hill, born March 1, 1863, graduated at the Sa- lem Normal school, after completing a course at the Howe school in Billerica, and was the youngest in point of years but the eldest in service among the teachers of the Emerson school of Concord, Massachusetts, at the time of her death, July 25, 1887. 2. Samuel, born February 27, 1869, graduate of the Howe school and was a sophomore in Cornell Uni- versity when he died, April 3, 1888, the last of the line, the eighth of the name, Samuel Sage, in direct line of descent.

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Henry Adams, immigrant an-

ADAMS cestor, born in England, came from Braintree, England, to Braintree, Massachusetts, which was first known as Mount Wollaston, or simply The Mount, Boston, in 1632 or 1633 .. He was al- lotted forty acres of land at The Mount for the ten persons in his family under date of Febru- ary 24, 1639-40. President John Adams, a descendant, believed that Henry Adams came from Devonshire and erected a monument to the immigrant in the old burying ground at Braintree, now Quincy, with this inscription: "In memory of Henry Adams who took flight from the Dragon persecution in Devonshire, 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 two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here-an original proprietor in the township of Brain- tree." The monument commemorates "the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry and persever- ance" of the Adams ancestors. But President John Quincy Adams, son of President John, dissented from the conclusion of his father to the effect that Henry Adams was of Devon- shire. Savage agrees with the younger Adams that the immigrant was of Braintree in Es- sex county, and some of the sons from Chelmsford in that county. The pedigree of Henry Adams tracing his ancestry to Ap Adam, the father of John or Lord Ap Adam, who was called to Parliament by Edward I as Baron of the Realm from 1296 to 1307, and stating that he came out of the Marches or Borders of Wales into Devonshire, has been discredited by genealogists, though proof of error seems as much wanting as proof of cor- rectness. If correct, the lineage includes kings of England and France and goes back to Charlemagne.

The name of Henry Adams's wife is un- known; it is generally believed she returned to England with her daughter Ursula, and died there. Henry Adams died at Braintree, October 6, 1646, and was buried on the 8th. In his will, proved June 8, 1647, he mentions sons Peter, John, Joseph, Edward, Samuel, and daughter Ursula. Children: I. Lieuten- ant Henry, born in England in 1604, married in Braintree, November 17, 1643, Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Paine; settler in Medfield. 2. Lieutenant Thomas, born in England in 1612, married, 1642, Mary Blackmer (?); re- moved with Samuel and John to Concord in

1646. 3. Captain Samuel, born 1617. 4. Deacon Jonathan, born 1619, married Elizabeth Fus- sell, daughter of John, and settled in Medfield. 5. Peter, born 1622, married Rachel settled in Medfield. 6. John, born 1624, set- tled in Cambridge. 7. Joseph, born 1626. 8. Ensign Edward, born 1630, married Lydia Rockwood; (second) Abigail (Craft) Ruggles; (third) Sarah Taylor. 9. Ursula, mentioned in her father's will.

(II) Joseph Adams, son of Henry Adams (I), born in England, 1626; married, in Brain- tree, November 26, 1650, Abigail, daughter of Gregory and Margaret (Paddy) Baxter, of Boston. He died in Boston, August 27, 1692, aged fifty-eight. He was a maltster by trade, and a man of some importance. He was ad- mitted a freeman 1653, was selectman in 1673. He died in Braintree, December 6, 1694, aged sixty-eight years. Their children: I. Hannah, born in Braintree, November 13, 1652, mar- ried, April 10, 1672-73, Deacon Samuel, son of William Savil, who died December 14, 1700. 2. Joseph, born in Braintree, Decem- ber 24, 1654, mentioned below. 3. John, born in Braintree, February 12, 1656, died January 27, 1657. 4. Abigail, born in Braintree, Feb- ruary 27, 1658, married John Jr., son of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass. 5. Captain John, born in Braintree, December 20, 1661, mar- ried (first) Hannah Webb; (second), October 19, 1694, Hannah Checkley. 6. Bethia, born in Braintree, December 20, 1661, married, May, 1680, John Webb. 7. Mary, born September 8, 1663, died young. 8. Samuel, born Sep- tember 3, 1665, died in infancy. 9. Mary, born February 25, 1667-68, married Deacon Samuel Bass. 10. Captain Peter, born Feb- ruary 7, 1669-70, married, February 12, 1695, Mary Webb, daughter of Christopher Webb. II. Jonathan, born January 31, 1671. 12. Mehitable, born November 23, 1673, married, July 21, 1697, Thomas White, Jr.

(III) Joseph Adams, son of Joseph Adams (2), born in Braintree, December 24, 1654; married, February 20, 1682, Mary Chapin, born August 27, 1662, died June 14, 1687. He married (second), 1688, Hannah, daughter of John and Ruth (Alden) Bass, and grand- daughter of the Pilgrim Mayflower ancestors, John and Priscilla (Molines) Alden. Hence all descendants of this marriage are eligible to the Mayflower Society. Joseph Adams mar- ried (third), Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Ho- bart, of Braintree. She died February 13, 1739, aged seventy-one years. Joseph Adams was selectman of Braintree 1673 and 1698-99. He died in Braintree, February 12, 1736-37.

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He and John Bass both served in King Phil- ip's war in August, 1676. Children of Joseph and Mary (Chapin) Adams: I. Mary, born February 6, 1683, married, April, 1714, Eph- raim Jones, Jr .; she died January 30, 1733-34. 2. Abigail, born February 17, 1684, married, February 5, 1713, Seth Chapin, Jr., of Men- don; married (second), Elizabeth -, who died in Mendon, April 28, 1722. Children of Joseph and Hannah (Bass) Adams. 3. Rev. Joseph, born January 4, 1688, married (first), October 13, 1720, Mrs. Elizabeth Janvrin, of Newington, New Hampshire; (second), Janu- ary 3, 1760, Elizabeth Janvrin, of Greenland, New Hampshire, pastor of Newington for sixty-six years. 4. Deacon John, born Feb- ruary 8, 1691-92, married, October 31, 1734, Susanna Boylston. 5. Samuel, born January 28, 1694, married, October 6, 1720, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Moses Paine. 6. Josiah, born February 18, 1696, mentioned below. 7. Hannah, born February 21, 1698, married, February 4, 1725, Benjamin Owen. 8. Ruth, born March 21, 1700, married November 21, 1731, Rev. Nathan Webb, of Uxbridge; he was the first settled minister, February 7, 1731, at Uxbridge. 9. Bethia, born June 13, 1702, married, April 28, 1727, Ebenezer Hunt, son of Ephraim of Wey- mouth. 10. Captain Ebenezer, born Decem- ber 30, 1704, married Anne Boylston. Child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hobart) Adams: II. Caleb, born May 26, 1710, died June 4, 1710. (IV) Josiah Adams, son of Joseph Adams (3). born in Braintree, February 18, 1696; married, November 25, 1718, Bethia, daugh- ter of Samuel and Hannah Thompson. She was born March 20, 1693. He purchased land at Mendon, January 1, 1734, and was dis- missed June 6, 1735, from the church in Braintree to that in Mendon. He died in Mendon, July 30, 1802. Children: I. Josiah, born in Braintree, September 20, 1722, died January 20, 1742-43. 2. Josiah, born in Brain- tree, September 6, 1727, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, born in Braintree, July 4, 1729, died July 30. 4. Edward, born in Braintree, May 4, 1731, died in Quincy; Massachusetts, Au- gust 10, 1734. 5. Joel, baptized at Mendon, May 14, 1745. 6. John, baptized in Mendon, December 15, 1745.

(V) Josiah Adams, son of Josiah Adams (4), born in Braintree, September 6, 1727, married, December 27, 1750, Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant John and Lucy Reed, of Ux- bridge, Massachusetts. She was born Octo- ber 24, 1729. He was a farmer at Mendon. Their children: 1. Bethia, born in Mendon,

October 14, 1751, probably died young. 2. Dr. Joseph, born in Mendon, August 17, 1754, married, March 22, 1778, Sarah Smith; surgeon's mate 1780; selectman of. Mendon; representative to general court; removed to Uxbridge in 1828. 3. Deacon Josiah, born October 20, 1756, married, 1783, Dolly Kinni- cut, of Providence; (second), December 29, 1791, Mrs. Anna Taft Rockwood. 4. Sally, born April 1, 1760, died young. 5. Bethia, born April 9, 1762, married Waters, no issue. 6. Hon. Benjamin, born December 18, 1764, mentioned below. 7. Seth, born January 2, 1768.

(VI) Hon. Benjamin Adams, son of Josiah Adams (5), was born in Mendon, Massachu- setts, December 18, 1764. He was a cousin of President John Adams, whose lineage was : President John (5); Deacon John (4) was brother of Benjamin's grandfather, Josiah (4), and the president was his father's first cousin.

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 49

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912