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Generation  XI-9  Adams -Squire

Henry Adams of Braintree.

"Henry Adams of Braintree, called thus because he was one of the earliest or first settlers in that part of the Massachusetts Bay designated "Mt. Wollaston," which was incorporated in 1640 as the town of Braintree.  It included what is now Quincy, Braintree and Randolph, Massachusetts.

He is believed to have arrived in Boston with wife, eight sons and a daughter, in 1632 or 1633.  The colonial authorities at Boston allotted to him 40 acres of land "at the Mount" for the ten persons in his family, Feb. 24, 1639-40.

The name of his wife is not known, (by some accounts) nor where and when she died.  It is believed that she returned to England with her son John and daughter Ursala, and died there, which appears not improbable.  Henry Adams died in Braintree, Oct. 6, 1646, and was buried on the 8th.

His will was proved June 8, 1641, and is as follows:

"First my will is that my sonne Peter and John and my daughter Ursula, shall have the grounde in the neck, both upland and meadow during the term I was to enjoy it, until it returne into the towne's hands againe, from whom I had it; also the aker in the mill fields:  my will is that my bookes shall be divided amongst all my children, that my wife shall have and enjoy all my other goods so long as shee live unmarried and if shee marry, then my will is that Joseph, Edward and my daughter Ursula should enjoy all my ground in the fielde that lieth on the way to Weymouth Ferry and my house lott, with all the houses and fruit trees and all my movables at the death or marriage of my wife, provided they and their mother shall pay to my sonne Samuel that which is due to him for the ground I bought of him, to be paid in convenient tyme, but in case God soe deal with my wife that she bee constrained to make use of something by way of sale, shee may finally, for movables, my will is that my sonne Peter and John shall have an equal share with my sonne Joseph and Edward and my daughter Ursula."

                                             See N. E.  Hist. and Gene. Register, Vol VII, p. 35  (1853).

Henry Adams and Descendants is from:

The Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree and His Descendants

                                                          by Andrew Adams of Fairhaven