When Nathaniel Adams III was born on 19 February 1746, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Adams, was 31 and his mother, Ann Silliman, was 11743. He married Salome Hyde on 21 December 1775, in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 8 October 1801, in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
George Washington elected first president of United States.
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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