When Martin Adams was born in 1723, in Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, William Adams, was 47 and his mother, Christina Crace, was 48. He married Elizabeth Stubbs on 15 April 1757, in New Castle, Delaware, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Chartiers Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States for about 12 years. He died in October 1810, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87.
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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.
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