Abigail Adams

Brief Life History of Abigail

When Abigail Adams was born on 7 January 1758, in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Sampson Adams, was 28 and her mother, Mary Burridge, was 23.

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Family Time Line

Sampson Adams
1729–1785
Mary Burridge
1735–1777
John Adams
1754–1833
Asa Adams
1756–
Abigail Adams
1758–
Thomas Adams
1759–1844
Mary Adams
1761–1833
Ephraim Adams
1763–
Prudence Adams
1767–
Archelaus Adams
1771–

Sources (2)

  • Abigail Adams, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Abigail Adams, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

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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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