When George William Adams was born on 12 October 1792, in Jefferson, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Adams, was 26 and his mother, Mrs. William Adams, was 27. He married Elizabeth Greaves Dickson on 17 June 1819, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States in 1830 and Fayette, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 January 1867, in La Grange, Fayette, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in LaGrange Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Tennessee, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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