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Abraham Adams

Male 1650 - 1729  (78 years)


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  • Name Abraham Adams 
    Born 9 Sep 1650  Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Aug 1729  Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1466  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Sarah Lockwood,   b. 27/27 Feb 1651/2, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1673  of Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F971  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Ordinance Index shows parents as Edward and Mary Adams.

      2. Per "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed. pages 380, 381 for Sarah Lockwood: "Sarah, b. 27 Feb 1651/52 (Colonial Records); possibly she was the first wife of Lt. Abraham Adams."
      Same book, pp. 9, 10: "Abraham Adams, s. of Edward, b. at Fairfield, 9 Sep 1650. D. 9 Aug 1729 in 80th year; 'a worthy founder and liberal benefactor to Trinity Church' (gravestone). He was bapt. at Fairfield Church, 9 Dec. 1694... He married Martha ___, who m. (2) ___ Miller. It is not certain that she was mother of the children. (Mr. Clarence A. Torrey, of Dorchester, MA, rightly draws our attention to the fact that she must have been a second wife because in the agreement of heirs she was to receive two beds she 'brought with her'; and suggests from circumstantial evidence that the other of the Adams children 'may' have been Sarah Lockwood.) Agreement made 10 Sep. 1729 between widow Martha and Children... [6 children listed all of Fairfield] regarding Est. of their father Lt. Abraham Adams."

      3. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
      "Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?].(70) She was living on 28 May 1661.(71) She may have married Abraham Adams.(72)
      xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654. She m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan3 Huestis (Angel2, Robert1).(73) She m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp.(74)
      Footnotes:
      70. Welles, "Births Marriages and Deaths ... of Connecticut," p. 30.
      71. Fairfield Probate Records 1:65, 67.
      72. In a footnote to his account of Abraham Adams, son of Edward Adams of Fairfield, Jacobus reports that "Mr. Clarence A. Torrey of Dorchester, Mass., ... suggests from circumstantial evidence that the mother of the Adams children may have been Sarah Lockwood" (Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:9-10). The "circumstantial evidence" was that Sarah Lockwood was available, that Abraham Adams used the names Deborah and Susannah for daughters, and that the children of Daniel Burr with his first wife (one of whom married a Lockwood) chose Adams as their attorney (letters from CAT to DLJ dated 18 and 19 December 1929, and letter of DLJ to CAT dated 20 December 1929, Folder #2, Correspondence of DLJ and CAT, Connecticut Historical Society."

      4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Children...
      x. Sarah Lockwood, b. Fairfield 27 February 1651[/2?] [CTVR 30]; she may have married Abraham Adams [Connecticut Ancestry 47:130; FOOF 1:9-10]..."

      5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
      "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
      ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
      He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
      Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
      i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
      ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
      iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
      iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
      v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
      vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
      vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
      viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
      ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
      x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
      xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

      6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
      "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
      Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
      Children, surname LOCKWOOD:...
      x. SARAH, born Fairfield CT 27 February 1652; married there about 1677 as his first wife Lt. Abraham Adams, born there 1650, died there 1729, probably son of Edward1 and Mary (___) Adams (Torrey 3)...
      (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"

      BIRTH:
      1. Ordinance Index has results of extraction from statewide indexes for Vermont and Connecticut as 9 Sep 1650 at Fairfield Twp and father as Edward Adams.