In 1749 Adams married Elizabeth Checkley. They had a total of six children but just two survived to adulthood. Their names were Samuel and Elizabeth after their parents. Samuels’s wife died in child birth while delivering a stillborn baby in 1757. Samuel was married a second time in 1764 ...
Adams, afterwards Master of Pembroke and author of a once well-known reply to Hume’s argument upon miracles. He was an amiable man, and was proud to do the honours of the university to his old friend, when, in later years, Johnson revisited the much-loved scenes of his neglected youth...
Much the same indifference was shewn him at Manchester, &c., but he adds:–“From this rememberable tour, I returned nearly a thousand names on the subscription list of the ‘Watchman;’ yet more than half convinced that prudence dictated the abandonment of the scheme; but for this very re...
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– d. 16 Dec 1814 in Barre, Worcester, Mass.; Burial: Adams Cemetery, Barre) Joseph’s parents were James Robinson ( – 1762) and Martha and Joseph had twelve children between 1754 and 1780. Joseph was a private in Capt. James Harlow’s Company, Col. Ezra Woods Regiment of ...
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