Richard Adams

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Husband Richard Adams ¹

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         Father: John Adams (      -Aft 1717) 2
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1 M William Adams ³

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         Spouse: Anna Lane (      -      ) 3
           Marr: Aft 1710

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Adams

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The ancestor of the present America family of Addams (name originally spelled Adams) came to America from England in colonial days and acquired ownership of land in Pennsylvania. The records show that on Dec. 22, 1681, William Penn deeded 500 acres in the Province of Pennsylvania to "Robert Adams of Ledwell in Oxfordshire, England." (The name was spelled Addams on the map of the territory.) The will of Robert Adams, dated July 27, 1717, and probated June 6, 1719, refers to his nephew Richard Adams. Richard Adams was a son of John Adams, who was living in 1717. In the will of Richard Adams of what was then Philadelphia County, but is now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, dated Feb. 1, 1747-8, and probated March 24, 1747-8, mention was made of ten children including William, who was referred to in the papers of the executors as of Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This son William Adams founded Adamstown in Lancaster County, in 1761.

1 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 112.

2 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 115.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 112, 115.