Harlie Adams did genealogical research into the Adams and Blanchard families, that included a trip to Massachusetts. Most of what remains are on small pieces of paper that are in very poor condition. The following notes are transcribed verbatim.

"Ebenezer Adams and Family moved from Barnard Vermont to Mass. Then to Canada and back to Mass. Then to Green Springs Ohio"

"Ebenezer Adams

b March 16^th 1790

d Oct. 18^th 1873

Tirzah Adams

b April 8^th 1802

d July 4^th 1867

John Q Adams

b May 22^nd 1856

d April 4^th 1886

Jennie L. Adams

b Oct. 10 th 1864

d July 30 1876"

"Adams Family Settled in Branch County 1 mile west of Montgomery more than a century ago. Over a century has passed since Ebenezer Adams born in Barnard Vt. Mar. 16^th 1790 Married Tirza Blanchard born April 8^th 1802 (daughter of Aaron Blanchard born Niv. 26^th 1760) of Barnard Vt. Where they lived for sometime then they with five children moved to Mass. And then to Canada and back to Mass. Later moved to Green Springs Ohio In the spring of 1839 he came to Branch Co. Michigan and took wife 80 acres on sec. 12 California Twp. Branch Co. 1 mile west of Montgomery where he cleared ½ acre of ground built a log building as he was a carpenter and a wagon maker built a water mill on Pencil creek at Fisher Hills and done other building and returned late that fall to Green Springs Ohio. And in Feb. 1840 with his wife and five children started on the long trek back to Michigan with oxen and Cartbringing with him 1 cow &1 Broad sow coming by the way of Adrian + Jonesvill the only Indian trail leading this way to establish a home in the wilderness where he cleared more land and built a log house then he used the log building he had built for a shop to work in and make wagons. And he lived and died there in the farm the arrived at the place Mar 10-1840"

"Charles Adamms

Born Jan 1^st 1828

Died April 15^th 1896

Mary T.

Born May 8^th 1833 in Perington

Died May 4^th 1903

Aged 69 yrs 10 mo 2 days

John q. Adams

Born May 22^nd 1856

Died Apr. 4^th 1886

Aged 29 yrs 10 mo 14 days

Jennie Adams

Died July 30 th 1876

Aged 11 yrs 9 mo 20 days

Born Oct 10^th 1864

Harlie Ebenezer Adams

Born Feb. 8^th 1867"

"Thomas Blanchard came to London from Penton Hants Co.with his second wife a widow with one son 12 years old and her mother and his four boys by his first wife (His wife’s mother , wife and a child born on the voyage died on the voyage).

The son of his wife had had some money left him by his father and grandfather and Thomas : Blanchard and an uncle of the boy who came over a year before quarrelled as to which should have the care of the money. The boy seems to have lived with Thomas Blanchard till of age. This quarrel was in the Massachusetts court (There was but one court then) and the report of the case with the witnesses from England who saw and knew Thomas there and came over in the same ship with him is preserved in the records.

This report is our authority for our knowledge of him and is a sworn account generally considered the best kind. Then the marriage record of Samuel Blanchard continued by his son Thomas now in the vault of the American Bible Society in New York City and finally the record book of Lemuel Blanchard and the (son) of Thomassecond son of Samuel makes a connected record that few families can equal or perhaps none excel.

The farm Thomas bought in Charlestown, now Medford, known as the Wilson farm back then, is given on a map still in existence. It is a piece of land higher than the neighboring land on the Mystic river opposite Charlestown and was called Blanchards Point. First called Wilsons Point. It was granted to Rev. Thomas Wilson pastor of the 1^st Church of Boston.

Thomas Blanchard’s will in which he divided it between his third wife and his three remaining sons is preserved in Mass. records.

His sons were Nathaniel who went Weymouth just below Boston, Thomas, George and Samuel. His wife had the use of part of the house, etc. Nathaniel sold his part to a man who quarrelled with George and Samuel and the town records of Charlestown have frequent accounts of appeals to the town officers. Samuel after the birth of of all of his children sold to George and moved to Andover as he says.

We know little of Nathaniel except that he had decendants recorded in Weymouth. Goerde was a prominent man in the town records of Charlestown and then of Medford.

Samuel is given much notice in the history of Andover and his son Thomas, father of Aron’s father Nathaniel and George is often mentioned in connection with the town and church records of Medford.

The Blanchard farm is now covered by a village of over 600 people and fast growing called Wellington. But in Medford it was named Wellington by a man who bought some of the land George sold. His descendents (George’s) did not continue to hold nor live on the land.

George built new house. Quite large on the highest point which still stands there and has a painted sign on it giving the information that it was built by George Blanchard and the dates and is considered a proud relic of the oldest house in that section, one of the oldest in New England. I spent much time there in Aug 1915. It should be a mecca for Blanchards as most of them are decendents from said Thomas of Penton through his sons Samuel of Andover, George of Charlestown and Medford and Nathaniel of Weymouth. It is not known that Thomas son of Thomas of Penton left a son."

All parenthesees were added by Harlie Adams. Dated Dec, 1916.