The following is from the CD version of "The Great migration Begins" by Robert Charles Anderson:
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1621 on Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, John Adams appears ahead of those persons admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division John Adams was granted one acre, as a passenger on the Fortune [PCR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division John Adams, "Eliner Adams," and James Adams were the second, third and fourth persons in the sixth company [PCR 12:11].
With four others, John Adams was on 1 July 1633 assigned to mow where Mr. Gilson had mowed the year before [PCR 1:14]. John Adams was assessed 9s. in the tax list of 25 March 1633, and "Widow Adams" was assessed the same amount on 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 28].
On 24 October 1633 John Winslow and John Jenny took an inventory of the goods of John Adams; the total was £71 14s., of which £37 10s. was in neat cattle [MD 1:157-58]. The inventory was presented at court on 11 November 1633, and the widow Ellen Adams was named adminstratrix, the deceased having left no will; she was bound in the sum of £140, John Barnes surety, to provide £5 apiece to her three children by John Adams - James, John and Susan - when they came of age, if she should choose to remarry [PCR 1:19]. The payment to son James, made by Kenelm Winslow, was recorded on 26 December 1651 [PCR 2:176].
DEATH: Between 1 July 1633 (assignment of mowing ground) and 24 October 1633 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: About 1625 ELLEN NEWTON (this identification, long in print, is based on the fact that she is the only Ellen in the 1623 land division, and there was no other known addition to the Plymouth population in the next few years); she married second in June 1634 KENELM WINSLOW [PCR 1:30], and was buried at Marshfield 5 December 1681 "being 83 years old" (probably an inflated age) [MarVR 13].
CHILDREN:
i JAMES, b. before 22 May 1627; m. Scituate 15 or 16 June or 16 July 1646 Frances Vassall, daughter of WILLIAM VASSALL [ScVR 2:11; PCR 2:108; 8:19].
ii JOHN, b. after 22 May 1627; m. (1) Marshfield 27 December 1654 Jane James [MarVR 1]; m. (2) by 10 December 1666 Elizabeth _____ [TAG 55:214].
iii SUSAN, b. after 22 May 1627; no further record.
COMMENTS: The best treatment in print of John Adams and his two sons is Robert S. Wakefield, "Men of the Fortune: John Adams," TAG 55 (1979):212-14. (An earlier account is in NEHGR 33 [1879]:410-13.)
Banks has published some records for the name John Adams in London, but none of these can be connected with John Adams of Plymouth [Pilgrim Fathers 105].
In the 1623 Plymouth land division, Ellen Newton was granted one acre as a passenger on the Anne in 1623 [PCR 12:6].
COMMENTS: Before 1627 she had married JOHN ADAMS of Plymouth, and after his death in 1633 she married KENELM WINSLOW.
ELLEN, b. say 1636; m. Marshfield 20 [December 1656 Samuel Baker] (the marriage record as published is missing all but the name of the bride and the day of the event; the month and the year are suggested by the preceding marriage record, which was for November 1656, and the date of birth of the first child, on 23 March 1657/8 [MarVR 2, 4]). On 7 March 1653/4 "Kanelme Winslow complained against John Soule for speaking falsely of and scandalizing his daughter in carrying diverse false reports betwixt Josias Standish and her; the which complaint, at the request of G[e]orge Soule, father of the said John Soule, was referred until another Court, to be tried by a jury of twelve of his equals" [PCR 3:46-47].
DEPOSITIONS.
(Continued from page 179)
[Scrap Book, p.61]
the testimony of nathaniel winslow aged fifty yeares or theareabouts & of Samuell Litle aged thirty three years or thearabouts
these Deponants testify & say that we being at Boston att the superiour court there held on July 31 1688 we heard then & ther read a writt of Ejection in which John Doe complaines of Richard Roe: wee allso testity that John Bradford then and there appeared as Defendant in that Action for Richard Roe above named Also we saw said Bradford againe appeare aff Boston at the next superiour court there held on october 30 1688 and heard him declare he then expected to be called to answer to the writt abovesaid we said Deponents doe further testity that on the next superior court held at Boston on January 29:1688/89 wee then and there saw said Bradford at Boston and herd him then declare that his only businesse to that court was to Answer the writt of Ejection above mentioned and further saith not
Sworn in Court march ye 18th 1681 by the persons above named vizt Nathll Winslow and Sam Little
Attest Sam1 Sprague Clerk
From this deposition we learn that Samuel3 Little (Ann2 Warren, Richard1) was born about the year
1657.
On the grave stone of Capt. Nathaniel Winslow at Marshfield it is stated that he died 1 December, 1719, in the eighty-first year of his age. If his birth occurred in the year 1639 this statement does not conflict with that in the deposition.
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JOB, b. say 1641; m. by 1674 Ruth _____ (eldest known child b. Swansea 16 November 1674 [SwVR 21]). (In 1914 Richard Henry Greene rejected the claim that Ruth was daughter of Daniel Cole; he examined several other possibilities, including a placement in the family of STEPHEN HOPKINS, but came to no firm conclusion [NYGBR 45:2-8; see also MF 6:7, 11].)
First of the English to die at Yarmouth.
[WILLAM TWINING ET AL. TO PETER WARDEN]
[3: 334] On 5 April, 1669, "Willam Twinning of Eastham ....husbandman", for £8 lawfull money, sold to "Peter Warden of the Towne of Yarmouth .... husbandman". "the said Willam
Twinning . . . for himselfe and Merriam Dean his sister and for Sussanna Snow sister to his wife; which three are the proper and Joynt heires of theire father Steven Deane his land" "all the lands that belonges unto and Were the purchase lands of Stephen Dean Deceased; and now lawfully heired by Elizabeth the wife of the said Willam Twinning, Merriam Dean and Sussanna the wife of Stephen Snow; all these the Daughters of Stephen Deane Deceased, of the Towne of Plymouth in New England ... both uplands and meddowing Containing the Eleventh prte of the whole tract of lands between the two brookes ... Comonly Called and knowne by the Names of bound brook and stony brook; and Now within the the liberties of the Township of yarmouth aforsaid"
The deed was signed by William Twining, Elizabeth Twining, Stephen Snow, Susanna Snow and Meriam Dean, the last by a mark; was acknowledged 5 April, 1669, by the five grantors, before John Freeman, Assistant; and was witnessed by Josias Cooke and Nicholas Snow.
On 5 April, 1669, Peter Warden transferred the property to "his sonne Kanelme Winslow" The deed was acknowledged the same day, and the witnesses were the same as in the preceding deed.
[foL 33] The last will and Testament of Peter Worden of Yarmouth the elder Deceased proved at the genrall Court held at Plymouth the fift day of March in the xiiijth yeare of the Raigne of our Souraigne Lord Charles King of England &c 1638 by the oathes of mr Nicholas Sympkins Heugh Tillie & Giles Hopkins. as followeth vizt
Be it knowne unto all men to whom this doth or may conceme That I Peter Worden of Yarmouth in New England in Plymouth Patten being very sick in this yeare of our Lord 1638 and on the ninth day of ffebruary do make my last will to testyty unto all that I Peter Worden doe give and bequeath unto Peter Worden my onely sonne & sonn & heire and in the presence of Nicholas Sympkins Hugh Tillie & Giles Hopkins I do make him my whole Executr to whom I doe give all my lands Leases Tennements wth goods moveable and unmoveable in the Towne of Clayton in the County of Lankester likewise I doe give unto Peter my sonne all my goods wch I have at this prsent in New England My will is my sonne is to give John Lewis one Nate Goate also my will is my sonn is to give my Grandchild such money as is due for the keepeing of Goates and Calves untill this day and that my sonn is wth the money to buy John a Kid or dispose it otherwaies for his use also one bed or boulster three blanketts also my sonn is to have the tuition of my grandchild untill he be at the age of one and twenty yeares of age also my will is he shall fynd him with meate drinke and cloathes and at the three last yeares of the xxjftie years also to have fourty shillings the year after & above for to add to his stock wth a sowe pigg when the sowe piggs
In witnesse we present set our hands
Peter (his seale) Worden
Nicholas Simpkins
Hugh Tilly H
marke Giles
Hopkins G
mr Nicholas Sympkins Heugh Tilly and Giles Hopkins weer all deposed (in open Court) to this will the fift day of march 1638 xiiijto Caroli Rs See Court ordrs P 194
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories pages 75-76
Given name may be Elizabeth
Surname from mother-in-laws will
Surname from mother-in-laws will
Marriage from the Sandwich, Massachusetts Vital Records p. 167