Cassandra Adams

Brief Life History of Cassandra

When Cassandra Adams was born in 1817, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Israel Adams, was 37 and her mother, Rhoda Hawthorn, was 39. She married Nathaniel Dudley on 30 September 1851. She lived in Goshen, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States in 1850 and Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1860. She died in Lebanon, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.

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Nathaniel Dudley
1807–1879
Cassandra Adams
1817–
Marriage: 30 September 1851

Sources (7)

  • Casandra Dudley in household of N W Dudley, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Cassandra Adams, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • Casanddra Adams, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"

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1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough

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1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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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