When Nathan Adams was born on 16 November 1805, in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States, his father, Jedediah Adams, was 24 and his mother, Mary Perkins Adams, was 16. He married Hannah Clark Winter about 1827. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 5 December 1851, in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States.