Thirteenth Generation

6772. Captain Samuel Henry ADAMS was born in January 1617 in Barton St David, Somerset, England. He died on 24 January 1688 at the age of 71 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, BCA. He was buried.¹³⁰ He emigrated to New England with his parents in 1638 and lived with them in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was admitted as a free man of the Massachussets Bay Colony on 10 May 1643 and was one of 32 Braintree petitioners for a land grant in Oct. 1645. During the next few years he lived in Charlestown and Concord where he acquired land as did his brothers Thomas and John. The land was sold on 8 March 1654 to Richard Temple. He joined his brother Thomas in Chelmsford where he erected and conducted mills (now Lowell). He was appointed captain of the Chelmsford military company and was town clerk in 1679. Samuel had four hundred and fifty acres of land granted him, near where the city of Lowell now is, and exclusive right to erect and run a sawmill, provided he would sell boards at three shillings per one hundred; and another grant of one hundred acres and right to build and run a grist mill or corn mill, provided he would keep a sufficient mill and miller; he was commissioner to the court, 1667, from Chelmsford. Rebecca GRAVES and Captain Samuel Henry ADAMS were married on 8 October 1652 in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, BCA.

6773. Rebecca GRAVES died on 8 October 1664 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, BCA. She was born on 25 September 1930 in Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England.

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