Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Adams was born on 1 October 1786, in Red Hook, Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Ebenezer Adams Jr, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Martin, was 26. He died on 3 August 1864, in Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Saint Johns Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery, Upper Red Hook, Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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- Henrich Adams, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- Henry Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
- Henrich Adams, "New York, Church Records, 1660-1954"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1788
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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