34. ELIASHIB ADAMS, (Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), the first of this
name to reside on the island, was the son of Edward3 of Barnstable and his
wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley of the same town, and was
b. May 1699. He came to C. about 1728, and is called a cordwainer. He m.
RELIANCE MAYHEW (110) 15 Feb. 1728-9;
who was b. 1696 and d. 8 Jan. 1729- 30, in childbirth, her first and only
child. "She was a pious prudent woman of blameless conversation,"
wrote Parson Homes. The date of his death is not known to the compiler,
but he was living in 1768. The genealogy of the Adams Family has been published
(1898), and reference to it may be made for particulars of his ancestry.
(Recent investigation by the compiler in England prove that Henry Adams, the emigrant ancestor, was a native of the parish of Barton St. David, Co. Somerset, and son of John Adams. His wife was EDITH SQUIRE, daughter of Henry Squire of Charlton Mackrell. This was the Adams family from which Presidents John and John Quincy Adams, descended. His relationship to the Adams presidents is through their common descent from Henry Adams: Pres. John Quincy,6 Pres. John,5 (John,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Henry1).)
40. MAYHEW, b. 22 Dec. 1729.
40. MAYHEW ADAMS, (Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 22 Dec. 1729, res. C., master mariner. He m. REBECCA MAYHEW (191) 27 Dec. 1750, who was b. 27 May 1730 and d. 11 June 1819. He d. 10 Sept. 1823, and his will dated 2 June 1818 was proved 19 June 1824.
45. ELIASHIB, b. 15 Sept. 1751; d. 15 Nov. 1771, unm.
46. RELIANCE, b. 5 Nov. 1752; m. WILLIAM NICHOLS.
47. JAMES, b. 30 Sept. 1754.
48. REBECCA, b. 18 Aug. 1756; m. JOHN COTTLE (94), 22 Dec. 1774.
49. PARNELL, b. 15 Dec. 1757; m. THOMAS WADE MAYHEW (233), 21 Dec. 1780.
50. MAYHEW, b. 11 Mch. 1759.
51. ABIGAIL, b. 11 Aug. 1760; m. EBENEZER BASSETT (92), 21 May 1780.
52. MOSES, b. 6 Dec. 1762.
53. LOVE, b. 6 May 1764; m. SHUBAEL NORTON (210), 11 Jan. 1791.
54. SUSANNAH, b. 31 Aug. 1765; m. SAMUEL ATHEARN (90), 21 Apr. 1791 [in Chilmark.]
55. OLIVER, b. 5 Mch. 1767; d. y.
56. MARY, b. 31 Mch. 1769; d. unm.
57. WILLIAM, b. 15 Aug. 1770.
58. DIANA, b. 21 Apr. 1772; d. unm.
59. ELIZABETH, b. 6 May 1774; m. URIEL HILLMAN (363), 21 Dec. 1797.
47. JAMES ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 30 Sept. 1754, res. C., mariner. He m. DINAH ALLEN (320). She was b. Aug. 1764 in C. and d. 13 Oct. 1844, in T. of typhus fever. He d. 31 July 1800 [in Chilmark of "Savanna fever." Dinah was called a "seamstress" in her death record.]
60. JAMES, b. (1785); d. 27 Aug. 1814.
61. LOUISA, b. (1787); m. THOMAS NORTON (1023), 26 Oct. 1806.
62. MAYHEW, b. (1789).
63. JOSHUA ALLEN, b. 1791; m. ADELINE ATHEARN (169), 12 Apr. 1821.
64. PRUDENCE, b. 14 July 1793; m. ASA JOHNSON, 1 May 1814. [She d. 1885 in Tisbury.]
65. LUCRETIA, b. 22 Apr. 1796; m. HENRY ROBINSON (125), 15 Mch. 1827.
66. _____, b. Oct. 1799.
50. MAYHEW ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 11 Mch 1759, res. C., master mariner. He m. LYDIA RUSSELL (32) 13 Dec. 1792 who was b. 21 Jan. 1768. Capt. Adams d. at sea sometime before 1818. This family removed to New York State after his death. She d. in Cazenovia, N. Y.
70. ELIASHIB MAYHEW, b. (1794); he was a physician and removed from N.Y. State to Wis. where he died.
71. ELIZA.
72. LYDIA.
73. BETSEY.
52. MOSES ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 17 Jan. 1762; res. C., master mariner. He m. MARTHA LOOK (86) 24 Mch, 1799; who was b. 24 Aug. 1770, d. 6 Oct. 1857. He d. 17 Apr. 1843.
80. CALVIN C., b. 24 Dec. 1799; m. LYDIA ATHEARN; int. 10 Oct. 1835.
81. DAVID L., b. 28 Jan. 1801; m. PHOEBE MAYHEW; int. 26 May 1826. [He died Dec. 1869 in Chilmark. She died Mar. 1862 in Chilmark.]
82. MOSES, b. 5 Nov. 1803; m. (1) SUSAN REDFIELD, (2) SUSAN P. BUTLER. [He probably died in Feb. 1874 in West Tisbury. His first wife died 13 Dec 1842 of chlorosis in Chilmark.]
83. JOHN, b. 16 Apr. 1807; d. unm.
84. MARTHA A., b. 9 Nov. 1809; m. MATTHEW POOLE, 27 Aug. 1834.
85. MAYHEW, b. 14 Nov. 1812; m. MARY C. DAVIS, 20 July 1845.
86. MARY C., b. 24 Oct. 1816; d. unm.
57. WILLIAM ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henry1), b. Aug. 1770; res. C. and T., mariner. He m. THANKFUL LOOK (86) 14 June 1795, who was b. 23 June 1774. He d. 30 Mch. 1831. [She died Apr. 1859 in Chilmark.]
90. REBECCA, b. 27 May 1796; m. WILLIAM LOOK (183), int. 6 Sept. 1817.
91. WILLIAM, b. 1798; m. LYDIA CLARK. [She died a widow in Boston on 25 Jan 1863. She was the daughter of Capt. William Clark of Chilmark.]
92. FANNY, b. 28 Aug. 1803; m. MATTHEW MANTER (184); int. 17 Aug. 1822.
93. HIRAM, b. Jan. 1806; d. 11 May 1830. unm.
94. WASHINGTON, b. 8 July 1808; m. CASSANDRA HANCOCK, 10 Oct. 1833. [He d. 3 Apr 1868 in Tisbury of "disease of brain." He was a farmer. Cassandra was b. 1809 and died 1881.]
95. REUBEN, b. 17 Jan. 1811; m. (1) SOPHRONIA G. NEWCOMBE, 16 May 1839; (2) FANNY WEEKS, 30 Jan. 1847. He was a master mariner and d. 8 Jan. 1856 of yellow fever [on board schooner Golden Gate, while on the passage from Jeremie, St. Domingo, to Holmes Hole. Sophronia died of consumption in Tisbury on 13 Sep 1846. Fanny Weeks was the dau. of George and Susan Weeks.]
96. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 27 Oct. 1818; d. unm.
[William Adams evidently had two more children whose deaths were recorded on 7 Dec 1813 and in Jan. 1815 in the Chilmark Congregational Church records.]
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