Brief Life History of Betsey
When Betsey Adams was born on 5 September 1791, in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Asaph Adams, was 32 and her mother, Orinda Abbott, was 25. She died on 19 October 1862, in Hartwick, Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 71.
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1759–1808 Male
1766–1831 Female
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
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1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
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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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