Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Adams was born on 29 February 1784, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Francis Adams, was 42 and his mother, Rebecca Cooke, was 43. He married Silence Hunter on 13 August 1814, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 1 April 1845, in Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Rogers Cemetery, Topsham, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States.
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- Richard Adams, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Richard Adams, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Richard Adams, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
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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