Brief Life History of Thomas
When Reverend Thomas Adams was born on 7 February 1792, in North Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Benjamin Adams, was 43 and his mother, Eunice Hale, was 41. He married Sarah Barnard on 13 June 1819. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Hambden, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1880. He died on 4 February 1881, in Winslow, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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- Thomas Adams, "United States Census, 1860"
- Thomas Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
- Thomas Adams in entry for Sarah B Adams, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1799
Historical Boundaries: 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States
1818
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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.
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