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Joshua Adams
Early Essex, Ontario Settlers
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The Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, Ontario, tells us:
JOSHUA ADAMS, a prosperous farmer of the Township of Gosfield South,
represents an old family of Colchester, and he is descended from the same
family as John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presidents of the United
States of America. The first ancestor of the Adams family on this side of the
Atlantic was:
Henry Adams, of “Mount Wollastan,” (later — 1640 — incorporated as the Town
of Braintree, Massachusetts). He is believed to have arrived in Boston with his
wife (name unknown), eight sons, and a daughter, in 1632-33, and he died in
Braintree, Oct. 6, 1646. Henry is believed to have come from Braintree, County
of Essex, England. His sons were:
• Henry Adams,
• Thomas Adams,
• Samuel Adams,
• Jonathan Adams,
• Peter Adams,
• John Adams,
• Joseph Adams,
• Edward Adams.
Joseph Adams, born in 1626, in England, married in Braintree,
Massachusetts, Nov. 26, 1650, to Abigail Baxter, daughter of Gregory and
Margaret (Paddy) Baxter, of Boston. Mr. Adams was a Maltster; Freeman, in
1663; Selectman, in 1673; and died in Braintree, Massachusetts, Dec. 6, 1694.
Abigail (Baxter) Adams, Joseph’s wife died in Boston, Aug. 27, 1692, aged
fifty-eight. Their children were:
• Hannah Adams,
• Joseph Adams,
• John Adams,
• Abigail Adams,
• John Adams (II),
• Bethia Adams,
• Mary Adams,
• Samuel Adams,
• Mary Adams (II),
• Peter Adams,
• Jonathan Adams,
• Mehitabel Adams.
Our subject traces his ancestry from John Adams II, of this family.
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John Adams II, born in Braintree, Dec. 20, 1661, was a Sea Captain and
merchant. John married Firstly to Hannah Webb, and their children were:
• Hannah Adams,
• John Adams (3),
• Samuel Adams, born in Boston, May 6, 1689, married Mary Fifield. He
owned a fine mansion, was the Justice of the Peace, Deacon of the
Church, Selectman, Member of the Legislature, and prominent as a
leader in politics and business. Samuel Adams died March 8, 1747. His
children were:
o Richard Adams,
o Mary Adams,
o Hannah Adams,
o Hon. Samuel Adams II,
o John Adams I,
o John Adams II,
o Joseph Adams,
o Abigail Adams I,
o Thomas Adams,
o Sarah Adams,
o Abigail Adams II,
o Mehitable Adams.
• Abijah Adams.
By his second wife, Hannah Chickley, John Adams II had children:
• Joseph Adams,
• Mary Adams,
• Bethia Adams,
• Thomas Adams,
• Abigail Adams III.
• Mehitable Adams.
Samuel Adams I’s son the Hon. Samuel Adams II, was, educated in the Boston
Latin School and Harvard College, was a Delegate to the first Continental
Congress, 1774, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and
served as Governor of the State of Massachusetts. An excellent statue of him in
bronze stands in Dock Square, Boston,
o John Adams I,
o John Adams II,
o Joseph Adams,
o Abigail Adams I,
o Thomas Adams,
o Sarah Adams,
o Abigail Adams II,
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Joseph Adams was born in Boston, Oct. 29, 1728. His wife’s name is unknown.
Edward Adams, his son, was born in Connecticut, in 1755, and married a Miss
Craig. His children were:
• Edward Adams,
• Eleven Adams,
• Joshua Adams,
• Rose Craig Adams.
Joseph Adams II, born Oct. or Dec. 24, 1654, in Braintree, married (Firstly),
Feb. 20, 1682, Mary Chapin, born Aug. 27, 1662.
Mary (Chapin) Adams died June 14, 1687.
Joseph and Mary (Chapin) Adams Children were:
• Mary Adams,
• Abigail Adams.
Joseph Adams II married (secondly) in 1688, Hannah Bass, daughter of John
and Ruth (Alden) Bass, born June 22, 1667, who died Oct. 24, 1705.
Joseph and Hannah (Bass) Adams children were:
• Joseph Adams III,
• John Adams,
• Samuel Adams,
• Josiah Adams,
• Hannah Adams,
• Ruth Adams,
• Bethia Adams,
• Ebenezer Adams.
Joseph Adams II married for his third wife, Elizabeth Hobart, who died Feb. 13,
1739.
Their son was:
• Caleb Adams.
Joseph Adams II was Selectman in Braintree in 1673, and in 1698-99. He died
in Braintree, Feb. 12, 1736-37. Joseph served in the war with the Indians in
1696.
Deacon John Adams, born in Braintree, Feb. 8, 1691-92, married Oct. 31,
1734, Susannah Boylston, daughter of Peter and Ann (White) Boylston, of
Brooklyn, who was born March 5, 1699, and died April 17, 1797. Deacon John
Adams was a Cordwainer and Farmer, and resided in what is now Quincy,
Massachusetts.
Deacon John Adams died May 25. 1761, aged sixty-nine, his children were:
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• John Adams,
• Peter Adams,
• Elihu Adams.
Hon. John Adams (second publicly elected President of the United States), born
Oct. 19, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts, married Feb. 24, or Oct. 25, 1764,
Abigail Smith, born Nov. 23, 1744, daughter of Rev. William and Elizabeth
(Quincy) Smith, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Abigail (Smith) Adams died Oct.
28, 1818, aged seventy-four. Their children were:
• Abigail Adams,
• John Quincy Adams,
• Susanna Adams,
• Charles Adams,
• Thomas Adams.
Hon. John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, born in Braintree,
July 11, 1767, married July 26, 1797, Louisa Catherine Johnson, daughter of
Joshua Johnson, Esq., of Maryland. Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams died in
1852. Their children were:
• George W. Adams, who died unmarried,
• John Adams, who married his cousin, Mary Helen,
• Hon. Charles Francis Adams, who married Abigail Brooks,
• Louisa Adams.
Joshua Adams, father of the gentleman whose name opens these lines, as will
be seen, was a cousin (but not a first cousin) of John Quincy Adams. He was
born in Philadelphia, Nov. 4, 1784, and as a young man resided in
Pennsylvania and Maryland. Joshua served in the American war of 1812, came
to Detroit, was discharged there, and was afterward awarded a bounty of 200
acres of land, but, failing to give the name of the Captain under whom he
served, never received it.
In 1814 Joshua Adams came to the County of Essex, Ontario, and located in
the Iler settlement, Colchester Township. Joshua was a shoemaker by trade,
and there followed that occupation, also purchasing a small tract of land,
which he farmed in his spare moments from his shoemaking, working hard.
Although he labored so incessantly, Joshua Adams lived to be seventy-two
years of age and died upon his farm.
Joshua Adams married Elizabeth, widow of John Buchannan, and daughter of
Joseph Quick, one of the pioneers of the County of Essex.
When a child Miss Quick was captured by a band of Wyandotte Indians, and
taken to their village on the Maumee river, in Ohio. There she was kept seven
years, when she was sold to the French at Detroit. Her father bought her from
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the French, paying $80 for her and her mother. Some two years later the family
moved to Colchester. Elizabeth (Quick) Adams death occurred when she was
seventy-two years of age, and she and her husband, Joshua Adams, were
buried in the Iler cemetery.
The children born to Joshua and Elizabeth (Quick) Adams were:
• Mary Adams (deceased) married John Ulch, also deceased,
• Matthew Adams married Hannah McCormick,
• Uretta Adams (deceased) married John Woodewiss, also deceased,
• Joshua Adams II, married Clarissa Jane Scratch,
• Ann Louisa Adams married Rev. Alexander Scratch, of Leamington.
Joshua Adams II was born in Colchester, April 15, 1826, and there grew to
maturity, receiving but a limited education, as there were no public schools at
that time. Joshua attended for a short period the private school conducted by
Robert Thompson.
While in Gosfield Joshua Adams II married, June 4, 1848, Miss Clarissa Jane
Scratch, who was born in Gosfield, Aug. 10, 1828, and who died June 23,
1900.
About the time of the marriage Joshua Adams II settled in Gosfield South on
the farm he now owns, which is a fifty-acre tract. When he settled upon the
property there were only nine or ten acres cleared, but Joshua has placed it all
under cultivation. Until 1872 the family lived in the primitive log house he first
erected, moving then into a substantial brick house, in which they now reside.
The brick for this structure was made on the lake front.
Joshua Adams II has devoted most of his life to farming, having been in the
brick business three years, and in the timber business one year, and is now
enjoying a well-earned leisure as a reward for his patient industry.
Joshua Adams II is a Conservative in politics but has never sought public
preferment. For nine years he served as a School Trustee. He is a member of
the Methodist Church at Kingsville, and liberally supports that denomination.
Joshua Adams II is a member of the Orange Lodge at Kingsville.
Joshua and Clarissa (Scratch) Adams had the following children:
• Isabella Adams was born Aug. 15, 1850, and became the wife of Rev.
Albert R. Rich, D. D., who is Presiding Elder over a Central Clarion
District of the Erie Conference, also Secretary of that Conference, and
resides at DuBois, Pennsylvania. Children as follows have been born to
Mr. and Mrs. Rich:
o Joshua Albert Rich, died at the age of four years,
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o John Street Russell Rich, graduated at the Drew Theological
Seminary, at Madison, New Jersey, and is a Methodist Minister of
the Erie Conference. John S. R. Rich married Eletha McConnell,
and has one daughter:
? Mary Isabella Rich.
o Claribelle Susanna Rich, graduated at Grove City College, Grove
City, Pennsylvania,
o Paul Adams Rich died when six months old.
o Henry Lloyd Edgerton Rich is at Grove City College.
• Mary Elizabeth Adams, born Jan. 28, 1857, is at home. She has devoted
much of her time to Sunday School work, having been a Teacher in the
Methodist Church at Kingsville for fifteen years.
• Esther Adams, born Nov. 21, 1859, married Prof. Archibald G. Adams,
Osteopathic Physician, and resides at London, Ont. Their children are:
o Enid Jane Adams (who is at Harding Hall, Ladies College),
o Prosper A. G. Adams (who is at Harding Hall, Private School,
London, Ontario).

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