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Henry Adams 


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Children of Henry Adams:

i. Lieutenant Thomas Adams

ii. Ensign Edward Adams was baptized on 19 April 1629 in Kingweston, Somersetshire. [zog] He died on 12 November 1716 in Medfield. [zog] He married first Lydia Penniman about 1652. [zog] Lydia, the daughter of James and Lydia (Elliot) Penniman, was baptized on 22 February 1634/5 in Boston and died on 3 March 1675/6 in Medfield. [zog] He married second as her third husband Abigail Crafts on 7 December 1678. [zog] She died on 19 January 1706/7 in Medfield. [zog] He married third Sarah Taylor on 6 January 1709/10 in Medfield. [zog]

Edward and Lydia were the ancestors of Leka I, King (claimant) of Albania through the following descent: [zog]

John Adams (1658–1751) → Daniel Adams (1686–1772) → Abigail Adams (1736–1810) → Seth Harding (1782–1825) → Edward Learned Harding (1822–1885) → Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding (1871–1962?) → Gladys Virginia Steuart (1891?–1947) → Geraldine, Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony (b. 1915) m. Zog I, King of Albania → Leka I.

iii. Ursula Adams died on 20 February 1679. [gmb] She married first Samuel Streeter. [gmb] She married second Samuel Hosier. [gmb] She married third William Robinson. [gmb] She married fourth Lieutenant Griffin Crafts on 15 July 1673. [gmb]

Detailed records for Ursula Adams can be found in the Streeter Family Bible records. In the late 1920s Milford Streeter placed an advertisement offering to buy the bible mentioned in the inventory of Stephen Streeeter, taken in 1652. He related that John Haynes Goodwin responded to his ad, saying that he had found in a used bookstore an old bible, printed in Edinburgh in 1693, with Streeter records. While clearly not the bible in question, Mr. Streeter purchased a copy of the records from Mr. Goodwin. A later attempt to locate the bible in the bookstore was not succesful. Mr. Streeter published a transcription of the copy of the bible records in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1931. Some of these records are known to erroneous. At worst, the story is a fabrication or the bible was fraudulent and none of the records that do not exist elsewhere are true. At best, the records are a transcription of a copy of records that were copied into the bible long after the events occurred. The records (now copied once again here) say that Ursula Adams was born on 19 July 1619. She married first Stephen Streeter (born 9 January 1600) on 5 October 1640. She married second Samuel Hosier (born 1 January 1614) on 13 October 1657. She married third William Robinson (born 9 January 1615) on 21 August 1666. She married fourth Griffin Crafts (born 21 May 1600) on 15 July 1673. [sfb]

References

bpr. Benjamin Parker Richardson, Jr., "Some Adams Questions," The American Genealogist 53 (1977): 37-43.

gmb. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I-III," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 489–1 (entry for Griffen Crafts).

sfb. Milford B. Streeter, "Streeter-Adams Family Records From a Streeter Family Bible," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 85 (1931): 382–5.

zog. Wm Addams Reitweisner, "A Hitherto Unnoted Descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree: Leka I, King (Claimant) of Albania," The American Genealogist 18 (1977): 18–20.


07-Jun-2023