A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass., and His Descendants 1635-1900 (1900)

This genealogy of the Robert Adams family was written by Andrew N. Adams and published in 1900. The introduction reads, in part:

"Born in England in 1602, Robert Adams came first to Ipswich in Massachusetts Bay in A. D. 1635, bringing with him his wife Eleanor (Wilmot?) and his first two children. He was a tailor by trade, resided in Salem in 1638-9 and removed to Newbury in 1640, where he acquired a large farm and valuable property, and died October 12, 1682, aged 81 years.

"He is believed by many to have come from Devonshire, and to have been a son of Robert and Elizabeth Sharlon or Sharland, connected with the Ap Adam pedigree, and through that connection to have been a cousin of Henry Adams of Braintree (afterward Quincy, Mass.), the ancestor of the presidents, John and John Quincy Adams."

The original text can be viewed in the NEHGS Research Library in Boston. The call number is CS71/A2/1900.

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