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  Generation  VIII-8  Adams - ________

He is said to have been "of Mendon, Mass.," and to have owned land on Casco Bay, which he forfeited.  Mr. Abner Morse (Hist.of Holliston and Sherborn) says he died in Medfield in a fit, in 1725 and that his wife, Joanna, died before him.  He thinks he might have been a son of James of Barrington; but James had no son William.

From:   Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree & His Descendants  by Andrew Adams of Fairhaven