When Thomas Adams Jr. was born about 1804, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Adams Sr, was 36 and his mother, Catherine Watson, was 33. He married Jemima Pointer on 29 November 1827, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Nicholas, Kentucky, United States in 1830 and Craig Township, Switzerland, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 July 1864, in Moorefield, Pleasant Township, Switzerland, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Switzerland, Indiana, United States.
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During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Indiana is the 19th state.
The state capital was moved from Corydon to Indianapolis on January 10, 1825.
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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