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friends who sincerely mourned his death, which occurred June 17, 1907. Children of James and Addie W. (Sampson) Adams: I. Edward R., August II, 1860. 2. Willie S., June 10, 1862, died June 20, 1862. 3. Charles E., September 3, 1863. 4. Madeleine, August 6, 1873, died June 14, 1892.
(VI) Edward Roscoe, eldest son and child of Hon. James and Addie Whittier (Samp- son) Adams, was born in Bangor, Maine, August 11, 1860. He received his education in the schools of that city. At the age of eighteen he entered the store of his father and has continued in the same line of business for thirty years. He has risen through the various grades of service from clerk to that of treas- urer and manager of the Adams Dry Goods Company, the present name of the corporation, but the same business, located in the hand- some building on Main street, Bangor, erected by S. & J. Adams in 1872. They do an ex- clusive wholesale business in drygoods and employ eight traveling representatives who cover the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Mr. Adams is a lifelong Re- publican, but has never sought or desired pub- lic office. He holds membership in Candes- keag Lodge, No. 53, Knights of Pythias. He married, 1886, Florence M., born February 21, 1861, daughter of Warren and Lydia (Hilt) Bragg, of China, Maine. Children: I. Mar- jorie, born March 17, 1887. 2. Hazel, April 15, 1888. 3. Everett L., December 23, 1889. 4. James W., September 26, 1892. 5. Lydia A., April 7, 1896.
(VI) Dr. Charles Everett, youngest son of Hon. James and Addie Whittier (Samp- son) Adams, was born in Bangor, Maine, Sep- tember 3, 1863. He received a thorough pre- paratory training in the Bangor schools, en- tered college at seventeen, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1884, from which institution he also graduated in medicine. He was physical director at Colby College, Water- ville, Maine, and later at Rutger's College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was director of the gymnasium. A short time be- fore his father died he came to Bangor, where he has since resided. He is deeply interested in forestry, and manages the James Adams estate, of which he is executor. He married Carrie A., daughter of Marshall Dyer, in 1904.
(VI) Madeleine, only daughter of Hon. James and Addie Whittier (Sampson) Adams, was born August 6, 1873, died June 14, 1892. The little steamer "Annie" on which she was a passenger, returning from Hampden to Ban- gor, was suddenly overtaken and capsized by
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a terrific wind storm. Miss Adams was one of the two persons who lost their lives in the disaster. She was a young woman of beau- tiful life and character, greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was deeply interested in Sunday school work and in that of the King's Daughters.
ADAMS There is a tradition among some of the descendants of Robert Adams that he was a Scotch- man; another that he was from the Holder- ness in the County of York; and still another that he was from Devonshire, England. Those who believe he came from Devonshire make him a son of Robert and Elizabeth Sharlon, or Sharland, connected with the Ap Adams pedigree, and through that connection to have been a cousin of Henry Adams, of Braintree, the ancestor of President Adams.
(I) Robert Adams was born in England in 1602, and with his wife, Eleanor (Wilmot) Adams, and first two children came to Ips- wich, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1635. He was a tailor and resided in Salem in 1638-39, and removed to Newbury in 1640, and there acquired a large farm and other valuable property. He died October 12, 1682, aged eighty-one years. His will, dated New- bury, March 7, 1681, was probated November 27, 1682. The first wife, Eleanor, died June 12, 1677; he married (second) February 6, 1678, Sarah (Glover) Short, widow of Henry Short. She died in Newbury, October 24, 1697. The children of Robert and Eleanor Adams were: John, Joanna, Abraham, Eliza- beth, Mary, Isaac, Jacob (died young), Han- nah and Jacob.
(II) Sergeant Abraham, third child and second son of Robert and Eleanor (Wilmot) Adams, was born in Salem, Massachusets, in 1639, and died in Newbury, in August, 1714. He probably lived on his father's homestead, which was bequeathed by Robert (I) to his grandson, Robert (2), the eldest son of Abra- ham. - He was a corporal in the militia from 1685 to 1693, and became a sergeant in 1703. He married, November 10, 1670, Mary, who was born July 6, 1652, daughter of Richard and James (Ingersoll) Pettengill. She died September 19, 1705, aged fifty-three. Their children were: Mary, Robert, Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, John, Matthew, Israel, Dorothy and Richard.
(III) Robert (2), eldest son and second child of Sergeant Abraham and Mary ( Pet- tengill) Adams, was born in Newbury, May 12, 1674, and died February 3, 1769. He
was a yeoman and resided on the Long-Barn farm, in Newbury. His will was made Octo- ber 1, 1765, and proved August 25, 1769. He married, in 'August, 1695, Rebecca, who was born April 27, 1674, daughter of John and Rebecca (Noyes) Knight. They had: Abra- ham, Rebecca, Mary, Robert, Jacob (died young), John, Jacob and Dorothy.
(IV) John, sixth child and fourth son of Robert (2) and Rebecca (Knight) Adams, was born in Newbury, November 2, 1705, and died between 1782 and June, 1787. He was a farmer and shoemaker in Newbury until April, 1753, when he removed to Falmouth, Maine. He had bought six years before (May 15, 1747) four acres of land in Falmouth on the Presumpscott river. His will was made be- fore February, 1776. He was the owner of lands as is shown by deeds made by him. He married, November 2, 1730, Elizabeth, who- was born in 1706, daughter of Benjamin and Susanna Morse, of Newbury. Their children were: Susanna, Jane, Joshua, Moses and Benjamin.
(V) Corporal Moses, fourth child and sec- ond son of John and Elizabeth (Morse) Adams, was born in Newbury, November 5,- 1737. He was a soldier of the revolution, a corporal in Captain Samuel Noyes' company, Colonel Plumley's (Thirty-first) regiment. The company return, dated Fort No. 2 (prob- ably October, 1775) states that he enlisted May 15, 1775, and marched to headquarters July 13, 1775. He lived at Falmouth. In a deed dated November 30, 1813, in which he conveys fifty acres of his homestead to his son "Moses Jr.," he is styled "gentleman"; in the following month he deeds other fifty acres of the homestead to his son Isaac. In that conveyance he is described as "yeoman." He married, 1761, Susanna, daughter of James and Mary (Adams) Merrill. Their children were: James, Israel, Sabrina, Isaac, and Moses, whose sketch follows.
(VI) Moses (2), youngest child of Cor- poral Moses (1) and Susanna (Merrill) Adams, was born in Falmouth, April 16, 1776, and died in Deering, November 26, 1859. He was a yeoman in Falmouth, December 3, 1813, when he deeded part of the ancestral home- stead to Moses Merrill Jr. In 1831 and 1851 he was "of Portland" and lived on South street. He married Sarah Skillings, who was born in 1772, and died in Portland, February 4, 1852. Of this union were born: Silas Merrill, Moses Woodman, Martha Preble and Mary Ann D.
(VII) Silas Merrill, eldest child of Moses
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(2) and Sarah (Skillings) Adams, was born in Falmouth, in April, 1809. He was a ship carpenter, a merchant and a farmer. He was engaged in merchandizing in Portland, Maine, 1851-55, and in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857. Subsequently he resided on a farm in Deering. He married Olive Elizabeth Moul- ton, their intentions of marriage being pub- lished at Portland, April 5, 1834. She was the daughter of Elias and Mary (Skilling) Moulton ; was born in Scarborough, Septem- ber 24, 1812, and died in Deering, September 29, 1888, aged seventy-six years. One son, George M., was born of this union ; his sketch follows.
(VIII) George Moses, only child of Silas M. and Olive Elizabeth (Moulton) Adams, was born in Portland, Maine, September 29, 1834, and died August 10, 1892, at Deering, Maine, where he was a farmer. He married, at Elmira, Illinois, December 15, 1862, Han- nah Rosina, daughter of John and Charlotte B. (Pratt) Adams, born in Falmouth, Maine, August 24, 1840. Their children were: Silas Bradley, Martha Preble, Frederick Waldemar, Olive Charlotte, Moses Parker, Henry Charles, George Palmer and John Howard.
(IX) Silas Bradley, eldest of the eight children of George M. and Hannah R. (Adams) Adams, was born in Portland, Oc- tober 17, 1863. He attended the public schools, and graduated from the high school in 1879, and later attended the New Hampton Insti- tute. He was a clerk in Portland from 1882 till 1889, when he entered the employ of Curtis & Sons, manufacturers of chewing gum, and worked up through the various depart- ments of the business, with which he became thoroughly acquainted; and upon the death of Mr. Curtis in 1897 he was appointed to con- tinue the business and manage the estate. This he did, and January 1, 1898, through his instrumentality, the business was incorporated under the name of the Curtis & Son Company. Mr. Adams was made general manager and treasurer of the company and has since filled these offices. Under his management the fac- tory has more than doubled its annual output and is one of the leaders in its line in New England. He is a member of Deering Lodge, No. 183, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master ; a past high priest of Greenleaf Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13; Portland Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters; Portland Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar ; and Maine Consistory, Sub- lime Princes of the Royal Secret, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is
also a member of Unity Lodge, No. 3, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Portland Club. The Adams family are Repub- licans, and he is no exception to the rule. He married, October 5, 1886, Aurilla Emma, who was born in Stockton, September 17, 1864, daughter of Captain Edwin Elias and Emma (Dickey) Patterson. They have two children : Eleanor W. and Waldemar P.
ADAMS All of the various branches of the Adams family in Maine have been possessed of a most won- derful vitality. This has not only enabled them to reach far years from their dates of birth, but to have a quick, alert step at eighty and ninety years of age, and to have minds of remarkable clearness and vigor when their great-grandchildren were clustered about their knees to listen to their stories of "old times." This vitality has defied the storms of ocean life which make so many men "old before their time," and in what is often termed "the monotonously wearing farm life" has found no check or hindrance. This vitality is seen in a marked degree in the ability to rear fam- ilies of sturdy children often numbering twelve and more, long years finding no vacant chair in such homes of the parents, children and grandchildren.
Of all Maine families this wonderful vitality is most clearly exhibited in the branch de- scended from the ancestor who was at York at such an early date. Here are scores of families numbering as high as twelve children, and some reaching the number of fourteen, with the parents the most active, alert and progressive people in the towns where they dwelt, and each child a sturdy son and daugh- ter, always of a scholarly turn of mind, no matter to what kinds of work they may have put their hands. Before the writer of this article lie many specimens of the firm, clear handwriting of the Adams when they had passed far beyond three score years and ten. Here lie pages of family history written with wonderful clearness, records of many faith- ful services in the wars of our country by the various "Adams boys," for the family has ever been one of strongest patriotism. Pre- eminently farmers, they have achieved great success as teachers, preachers and holders of various town offices. A religious family withal, often the parents seeing all of their ten or twelve children faithful members of some church. This family might write without boasting beneath its noble coat-of-arms :
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"Men may come, and men may go, But we go on forever."
Such wonderful vitality is an inspiration to hardihood of the truest kind.
(I) Philip Adams resided at Agamenticus, now York, Maine, in 1652. November 22 that year he signed the articles of submission to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, being then about twenty-one years old, and was thus made a freeman. There are no records show- ing in what town he was born, or aught in re- gard to his ancestry. In the year 1666 he had the sons Philip and Thomas at Agamenticus, and may have had others.
(II) Thomas, son of Philip Adams, was born about 1652, in York. He seems to have always lived at York, as the following state- ment clearly proves : "Here followes ye names of the children of Thomas Adams born in York by his wife Hannah Parker, the daugh- ter of John Parker." His will was dated April 5, 1726, in which he mentions his wife, and all of the following children except Nath- an: Hannah, Philip, Samuel, Hezekiah, Hes- ter, Elizabeth, Thomas and Nathan.
(III) Samuel, son of Thomas and Hannah (Parker) Adams, was born at York in Feb- ruary, 1680. He was one of the most enter- prising citizens of ,"Old York." He married Lydia Gowell, of Kittery, Maine, who was born in that town, October 9, 1692, daughter of Richard Gowell, who signed a petition from Kittery in 1679, and is said to have come from Wales. He died in 1730. His wife was Hannah, daughter of Christian Remick. The children of Samuel Adams were: I. Samuel. 2. Nathan, born at York, September 10, 17II ; married, 1736, Hannah Parsons, and became one of the early settlers at Harpswell, Maine. 3. John, born July 17, 1713, married his cousin, Mary Adams. 4. Richard, born Sep- tember 3, 1715, married his cousin, Hepsibah Adams. 5. Thomas, born May 5, 1717, re- moved to Harpswell at an early date, where he was a very brave soldier in the revolution- ary war. 6. Lydia, died in infancy. 7. David, born June 4, 1720, married Mary Hill, and always resided at York. 8. Lydia. 9. Eze- kiel. 10. Eunice. II. Benjamin. 12. Elinor. 13. Zerviah. 14. Lydia.
(IV) Samuel, eldest child of Samuel and Lydia (Gowell) Adams, was born at York, March 26, 1710, and drowned in Merrymeet- ing Bay, near Brunswick, about 1775. He was a man of great enterprise. About the year 1745 he went to Bowdoinham, Maine, and hewed out a home and farm from the shaggy forests of that town. This was about
one mile south of the present East Bowdoin- ham station, and the farm lies on both sides of the railroad. In about a year he returned to York, and brought all his household goods to the new farm, and also a good stock of cattle for those days. His home became one that was known far and wide for its hospi- tality and cheer. He married, at York, No- vember 5, 1734, Elizabeth, daughter of Jona- than Young. Their children were: I. Sam- uel. 2. John, married his cousin, Katherine Adams, of Harpswell. 3. Jeddediah, married Rebecca Hill, of Brooklyn, New York, and settled near his father. 4. Lucy. 5. Marian. 6. Peggy. 7-8. Daughters.
(V) John, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Young) Adams, was born at York, about 1747, and "died in the triumphs of faith, at Bowdoinham, November 2, 1809, aged sixty- two years." He was a man of great energy of character, and a very earnest Christian. He married, at Harpswell, his cousin Katherine Adams, who died at Wales, Maine, April, 1833, having married (second) William Gowell. She was daughter of Nathan Adams. The children were: I. Moses. 2. Anna, born 1773, died 1813; married Samuel Wilson, and had a very large and interesting family. 3. Samuel, settled in Farmington; married Phoebe Washburne, and Miss Knowles. 4. Jeddediah, settled in Wilton, and had a very large and interesting family. 5. John Adams, took the home farm, and supported his par- ents, becoming one of the leading citizens of Bowdoinham ; he married Hannah Ridley, and had a large number of children. 6. Lois.
(VI) Moses, eldest child of John and Kath- erine (Adams) Adams, was born in Bow- doinham, March 7, 1769, and died in Wilton, January 4, 1855. In the winter of 1789 he went to Wilton with his wife, both on foot, and dragging all their household goods on a handsled. "But they woke the depths of the forest's gloom with their hymns of lofty cheer." He married, about 1789, Martha Kinney, who was ever a noble helpmeet for him. Their fourteen children all grew to man- hood and womanhood, one of the sturdiest families in the Pine Tree State. They were : I. Mary. 2. Catherine, married Josiah Smith ; had eleven children. 3. Moses, married Polly Smith. 4. Jephthah H. 5. Dennis, married Lydia Green ; seven children. 6. Martha, mar- ried John Richardson ; eight children. 7. John, married Phoebe Chase; ten children. 8. Thomas J., married Livia Stone; seven chil- dren. 9. Samuel B., married Lydia Morton ; two children. 10. David W., married Mary
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Crowell; five children. II. Jewett P., married Saviah Baker; eight children. 12. James Mar- ison, married Miss Crowell ; two children. 13. Charles K., married Julia Millett; three chil- dren. 14. Alonzo, married Mary C. Burnham; six children.
(VII) Jephthah Hill, second son of Moses and Martha (Kinney) Adams, was born in Bowdoinham, in 1796, and died in East Wil- ton, in 1872. While but a youth he was a very faithful soldier in the war of 1812. Al- though his entire education was acquired in the district schools of his day, he applied him- self with such zeal to his studies and had such a retentive memory that he became a school- master who was widely known in Maine towns for his excellent government in his schools, as well as for his fresh and helpful manner of imparting knowledge to his pupils. He inspired in many a boy and girl a great interest in education. In politics he was origi- nally a Whig, but subsequently joined the Re- publican party and held various town offices with great fidelity of service. After residing for a few years in the west, in 1823 he bought a farm in East Wilton, owning in all some one hundred and seventy-five acres of land. This he cultivated and cared for in such a manner that he was regarded throughout the state as a truly model farmer. In every way he was one of Wilton's most helpful and pro- gressive citizens. Mr. Adams married Han- nah Green, born in Wilton, in 1796, daughter of Josiah Green, a native of Dunstable, Mas- sachusetts. Tradition asserts that his father, Jonas Green, was one of the bravest of revo- lutionary soldiers. The children of Jephthah Hill Adams were: Alexis, Lydia B., Hannah G., Jefferson J., Albion, Nathaniel, Betsey D., Dorcas, Josiah G:, Sally F., James G., Wil- liam D., a family of great enterprise and with fine ability for any kind of work to which they might apply themselves.
(VIII) Hannah G., second daughter of Jephthah Hill and Hannah (Green) Adams, became the wife of Nathan (2) Carver (see Carver VII).
In the early records of New MADDOCKS England may be found sev- eral different forms of spelling this name: Maddock, Mattocks, Mad- dox and others. The first pioneer in the colonial records was John Maddocks, who ar- rived at Boston in the ship "Planter" in 1635, and died at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1643. James Maddocks, who may have been an elder brother of John, came over in 1642 and also
settled in Newbury, and Edmund Maddocks was married in Boston, 1652, to Rebecca Man- ning. Those of the name are now scattered over a wide area and have contributed their proportion to the development of the Ameri- can nation.
(I) Samuel Maddocks, probably a son of one of those above mentioned, was a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as May 21, 1662, at which date he was married to Mary, only daughter of Roger and Mary ( Pal- grave) Wellington. He died in that town and his widow subsequently married John (2) Cooledge.
(II) John, son of Samuel and Mary (Wel- lington) Maddocks, was born May 16, 1663, in Watertown, and died there February I, 1703. His estate was inventoried at two hun- dred and twenty-six pounds, fifteen shillings. He married, June 23, 1689, Ruth Church, who was baptized and united with the church at Watertown, December 12, 1698. After his death she married (second) Joseph Child. John Maddocks was the father of seven chil- dren : I. Ruth, born February 23, 1691, mar- ried, September 30, 1710, Joseph Chadwick. 2. John, mentioned at length below. 3. Mary, December 14, 1694, married, March 20, 1715, Peter Oliver, of Cambridge. 4. Sarah, De- cember 22, 1696, married, December 5, 1717, Thomas Ward. 5. Henry, mentioned with de- scendants in this article. 6. Caleb, August 29, 1700. 7. Joanna, October 4, 1702.
(III) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Ruth (Church) Maddocks, was born January 2, 1693, and was adopted by his uncle, Dr. Palgrave Wellington, becoming the latter's heir and executor and resided in Saco, Maine. The baptismal name only of his first wife is preserved, Mary. She died November 13, 1715, aged twenty-three years, leaving one son, Palgrave, who died the next year. The name of his second wife was also Mary, and she survived him and bore him children. Among these were three bearing the name of William, the first two dying in infancy. The third lived to maturity. The others were John, Mary, Joshua and Daniel.
(IV) Joshua, third surviving son of John (2) Maddocks, was born April 1, 1732, in Saco, Maine, and settled in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1771. In 1784 he built the first grist mill in that town; on the banks of Union river. He was married in 1754 to Susanna Austin, who was born September 2, 1736, in Saco, and they were the parents of: Joshua, Caleb, Ichabod, Elizabeth, Samuel, William, John, Oliver, Su- sannah and Rebecca.
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(V) William, fifth son of Joshua and Su- sanna (Austin) Maddocks, was born Septem- ber 4, 1764, in Saco, and was a soldier of the colonial army during the revolutionary war. He enlisted March 7, 1777, for three years, or during the war, and was discharged Sep- tember 25, 1778. He was a sergeant in Cap- tain Heaberd Smallwood's company of Col- onel William Grayson's regiment of conti- nental troops. He married Hannah Dyer and their children were: Dorothy, Sallie, Charles, Emma, Asa Dyer, Hannah, Gersham Billings, William and Cynthia.
(VI) Charles, eldest son of William and Hannah (Dyer) Maddocks, was born at Ells- worth, Maine, and resided in that town, where he had a beautiful home now occupied by Sen- ator Hale, of Maine. He was a member of the Baptist church. He married Abigail, daughter of Edward Garland, of Ellsworth, and they were the parents of: Abiah F., Wil- liam Edward, Margaret L., Charles Wood- bury, Mary Melissa, Nancy Ann, Walter D. and Horace P.
(VII) William Edward, eldest son of Charles and Abigail (Garland) Maddocks, was born October 2, 1832, in Ellsworth, and left his native state to settle in the then far west, August 5, 1856. He arrived at St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota, on the fourteenth of the same month and on the twenty-ninth set out for the "big woods" of Minnesota, as they were then called. He arrived at Princeton, Minnesota, September 4, 1856, and there en- gaged extensively in lumbering and amassed a large property. During the civil war, while at Prescott, Wisconsin, on business, he re- ceived news of the uprising of the Sioux and Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, and the mas- sacre at New Ulm. Knowing that they were likely to attack Princeton, he started at once for home. Reaching the banks of the Mis- sissippi, he was preparing to swim the stream, when an acquaintance came along with a skiff and rowed him over. After a walk of forty- four miles, and a half a day, until reaching home, he sank down exhausted from the effort and exposure. The distance was made greater by the necessity of circuitous routes on ac- count of the martial law prohibiting men from leaving the cities, where they were needed for protection. He enlisted in the forces being re- cruited to pursue the Indians on the frontier, as a private in Company C, First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry. He was urged by the colonel of the regiment to accept a lieutenancy, but he insisted that he enlisted to fight the Indians and avenge the wrongs of
the white settlers, and not for honors, and so continued to serve in the ranks. During this service he became ill and was sent home to re- cuperate. He lived only ten days after reach- ing there, dying of typhus and camp fever. November 10, 1863, at Hastings, Minnesota, to which place his family had fled for greater safety. He was a tall man of fine figure, stand- ing six feet, having a fair complexion and light hair. He was a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. He was married at Princeton, February 14, 1858, to Aurelia Frances Perkins, a daughter of Ephraim Per- kins, of Freedom, Maine. (See Perkins VII.)
(VIII) Abbie Frances, only surviving child of William Edward and Aurelia Frances ( Per- kins) Maddocks, was born May 27, 1859, in Princeton, and is now a resident of La Crosse, Wisconsin, where she is a well-known artist. Her education was supplied by the city schools, including the high school of La Crosse, where she won a prize for being the best penman in the city schools. She has always been a close student, preferring study and travel to the al- lurements of fashionable society. Her ability as an artist has been recognized both in Amer- ica and Europe, some of her paintings having been purchased and carried across the Atlantic, and to the Islands of the Pacific, as well as throughout the extent of this country. Within one year she has sold two paintings in Europe, which commanded a high figure. She has a most pleasing personality, being of medium height with brown hair and eyes and a fair complexion, and fully typifies the Hebrew meaning of the name Abigail, "my father's joy." Her surname also possesses a fine sig- nificance, being derived from Madoc, meaning "good," or "beneficent."
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