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Here is the second page of the Oakes/Adams line from Charlotte Tamsen (née Charlotte Pope Oakes). Also copied from “A genealogical history of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass: and his descendents, 1635-1900”. Dee was a great one for copying.
Freegrace Adams – Born in Suffield, November 14-19, 1728. Married April 4, 1753 to Anna Kent (daughter of Samuel Kent and Abiah Dwight, she was born October 2 1730 and died September 8 1807 at age 77). He removed and settled in Marlboro, Vermont about 1774 and died there August 1715 at age 92.
Suffield is now in north-central Connecticut just southwest of Springfield, Massachusetts. According to Wikipedia, the Kent family was quite prominent in Suffield.
Lieutenant Abraham (Adams) – Born Suffield November 10, 1687. Married April 7 1713 to Joanna Norton of Suffield who died September 3, 1726. He was one of a committee November 4 1745 to decide the location of the meeting house in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and was awarded 4 pounds for his services. He died in Suffield on February 12, 1769.
Wilbraham is due east of Springfield, about 20 miles from Suffield.
Jacob Adams – Born in Newbury, September 13, 1651. Married April 7 1677 to Anna Allen (daughter of Nicholas Allen of Dorchester, Massachusetts. He removed, probably, about 1681-2 to Suffield (now Connecticut) where he was one of the most prominent and influential of the early settlers. He was often chosen to important offices, was a member of the General Court of the colony, then held in Boston, 1711-1714 and again in 1717. He died in Boston suddenly in November 1717 while in attendance up his duties as a member of the General Court from Suffield. He acquired large property and was greatly esteemed. his will, dated November 20, 1717 is recorded both in Boston and at Northampton which was the county seat of Hampshire County to which Suffield then belonged.
Robert Adams – Born in England 1602. Married Eleanor Wilmot. Came to Ipswich in Massachusetts Bay in 1635. He was a tailor by trade. Resided in Salem 1638-9 and moved to Newbury in 1640, where he acquired a large farm and valuable property and died on October 12, 1682, age 81 years. His will was made at Newbury March 7, 1680-1 and probated November 27 1682. His wife Eleanor died June 12, 1677.
Here is something new. Googling Jacob Adams finds him immediately in the Baker Library of the Harvard Business School where they have a book of accounts kept by him for his business. It’s our Jacob all right, but the dates differ slightly from Dee’s research.
Jacob Adams, son of Robert Adams and youngest of nine children, was born on April 13, 1654 in Newbury, Massachusetts. He attended the free school in Newbury. He later served as apprentice to the shoemaker, Robert Bartlett. After becoming a master shoemaker, Adams set himself up as a custom shoemaker in his own farm house in 1673 at the age of nineteen. He married Anna Allen of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1677, and they subsequently had seven children. In 1682, at the death of his father, he inherited his father’s house as well as the land adjoining. Jacob Adams moved to Suffield, Connecticut, in 1686 with other relatives and townspeople of Newbury. He continued his shoemaking business and by 1693 had became one of the most prominent and influential settlers of Suffield. In the years 1711, 1714 and 1717, Adams was sent to the General Court of the colony of Boston as Suffield’s representative. He died suddenly in Boston in November 1717 at the age of sixty-three.
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