Captain Moses Adams

1731 - 1815  (84 years)

• Name	Moses Adams
  Birth	4 Aug 1731	Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Married	12 Jun 1758 (26 years)	Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Rachel Leland, the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Death) Leland. She was born on 26 February 1737 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She died on Saturday 16 July 1825 in Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Hepsebath Adams (1758-1842) 2. Rhoda Adams (1761-1835) 3. Moses Adams (1763-1767) 4. Mary Adams (1767-____) 5. Rachel Adams (1769-____) 6. Ruth Adams (1772-____) 7. Aaron Adams (1775-1824)
  Adams (1898) has their marriage occurring in 1756. Adams (1898) gives her death as 1856, which he takes from the Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide's account of the Marriages and Deaths in Medway from 1814 to 1849.
  Offices Held	1775 (43 years)  [3]
  He was elected a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served again in 1782 and 1783.
  Military	19 Apr 1775 (43 years)  [3]
  During the Alarm on 19 April 1775, he was the First lieutenant of the Medway Company in Col. John Smith's regiment. A year later, he was promoted to Captain of the 9th company in Col. Ephraim Wheelock's Suffolk Regiment. In September 1777, his company was in col. Benjamin Hawes' Regiment.
  Death	5 Sep 1815	Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Will	7 Nov 1815 (84 years)	Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [3]
  Siblings	3 brothers and 7 sisters
  1. Benjamin Adams,   b. Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   2. Sarah Adams,   b. 17 Nov 1714, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1 Apr 1716, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 1 year)   3. Deborah Adams,   b. 12 Mar 1717, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   4. Sarah Adams,   b. 17 Mar 1718/19, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 28 Jan 1793, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 73 years)   5. Elizabeth Adams,   b. 12 May 1721, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   6. Daniel Adams,   b. 18 Jan 1724, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 26 May 1736, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 12 years) + 7. Ensign Thomas Adams,   b. 15 Apr 1726, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Dec 1773, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 47 years) ▻ Abigail,  m. say 1746 ;   Mary Partridge,  m. 27 Dec 1748   8. Ruth Adams,   b. 6 Mar 1728, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   9. Captain Moses Adams,   b. 4 Aug 1731, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Sep 1815, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 84 years)   10. Abigail Adams,   b. 23 Jun 1736, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 27 May 1810, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 73 years)   11. Tabitha Adams,   b. 12 Nov 1738, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 4 Apr 1819, Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 80 years)
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Robert Adams,   b. Abt 1474, England d. 1557, Somersetshire, England  (Age 83 years)  (6 x Great Grandfather)  Christian,   b. Abt 1670  (Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I15221
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Daniel Adams,   b. 12 Jan 1686, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 12 Sep 1772, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah Sanford,   b. 13 Oct 1694, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 7 Nov 1772, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F37	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Captain Moses Adams(1731 – 1815) 2Daniel Adams(1686 – 1772) 4John Adams(18 Feb 1657/58 – 1751) 8Ensign Edward Adams(1629 – 1716) 16Henry Adams(1583 – 1646) 17Edith Squire(1587 – 1672) 9Lydia Rockwood(1634/35 – 1676) 18Richard Rockwood( – 1660) 19possibly the daughter of Zachary Bicknell 5Deborah Partridge(1662 – 1751) 10John Partridge(Abt 1620 – 1706) 20 21 11Magdalen Bullard(1635 – 1677) 22John Bullard(Abt 1596 – 1678) 23Magdalen Martyn(1608 – 1661) 3Sarah Sanford(1694 – 1772) 6Deacon Thomas Sanford(1673 – ) 12Robert Sanford(Abt 1626 – ) 24 25 13Elizabeth Skelton(1631 – 1640) 26 27 7Christian(Abt 1670 – ) 14 28 29 15 30 31

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 4 Aug 1731 - Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 12 Jun 1758 - Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 5 Sep 1815 - Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Will - 7 Nov 1815 - Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S68] Jameson, E. O. The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons and the Genealogical Records of Many Early and Other Families in Medway, Mass. 1713-1886, (Providence, Rhode Island: J.A. & R.A. Reid Printers, 1886). [S997] Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Medway, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1905). [S76] Adams, Andrew N. A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., and his Descendants also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897, (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company, 1898). [S81] Morse, Abner. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans volume I, (Boston: Abner Morse, 1857). [S78] Morse, Abner. Genealogical Register of the Descendants of The Early Planters of Sherborn, Holliston, and Medway, Massachusetts, (Boston: Damrell & Moore, 1855).