When Jane Adams was born on 25 May 1757, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Adams Jr, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Kilbourne, was 25. She married John Sawyer Blaisdel on 24 November 1781, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 28 February 1783, at the age of 25.
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1753–1832 Male
1757–1783 Female
1782–1782 Female
1721–1804 Male
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1757–1783 Female
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English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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