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1. Obituary of Walter H. Athearn.
2. Dr. John C Austin Obituary.
3. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:1J88-MS9.
4. International Genealogical Index. Batch number 8871108.
5. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female.
6. Town Records of Tisbury, MA.
7. Obituary of Kennedy Brown.
8. January 17, 1924.
9. Obituary of Margaret A. Brown - Grinnell.
10. Obituary of David Brown.
11. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN: 1BPB-M86.
12. Ibid. AFN: 1BPB-QQL.
13. Ibid. AFN: 1BPB-QN6.
14. Letter dated January 10, 1910 from Robert Green Adams, Jr. to Charles
Manning Adams.
15. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 85 year life expectancy. Estimated range from birth year.
16. Ibid. 80 year life expectancy. Estimated range from birth year.
17. Marguerite Lillian Jones-Adams. Marguerite Lillian Jones-Adams (1889 - 1967) - Family Records.
18. Town Records of Tisbury, MA. In the 1897 Resident Directory he is listed as a carpenter. He is not listed in the 1907 Resident Directory.
19. 1860 Federal Census.
20. 1870 Federal Census.
21. 1880 Federal Census.
22. Ibid. It is not clear whether this is the same individual, but the age given was 26 which would br correct. Not clear how he would have received the education to be a clergyman.
23. Obituary on Robert Green Adams, Auburn Journal, Auburn, New York,
November 1833.
24. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999.
25. L.H. Butterfield, Editor. The Adams Family Papers: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams,
Volumes I - IV. The Belknap Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962.
26. 1860 Federal Census. Age given as 61 years.
27. Ibid. Age given as 58 years.
28. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:1BPB-MVW.
29. Somerset Pedigree Form, Prepared for Mrs. J.D. (Elizabeth Adams)
Nutting of Northfield, Minnesotta, and sent with letter dated November
27, 1936 to Mr. James L. Adams, Jr. of Youngston, Ohio.
30. Ancestry Database, #G6109.
31. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN: 18KW-PQ7.
32. Ibid. AFN:HN6W-07.
33. Ibid. AFN:LCVM-82.
34. International Genealogical Index. Batch number: A184632.
35. Lyme, Connecticut Vital Records.
36. Ibid. The name is spelled there with only one "t.".
37. Dr. Charles E. Banks. The History of Martha's Vineyard Volumn III. The Historical Society of Martha's Vineyard, 1925.
38. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 80 year life expectancy.
39. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFB: 1BPB-LTJ.
40. Ibid. AFN:1BPB-LWX.
41. Ibid. AFN:1BPB-LX5.
42. Ibid. AFN:1BPB-LSB.
43. Ibid. AFN:8VQW-17.
44. Ibid. AFN:8Q6X-LC.
45. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 75 year life expectancy. Estimate uses range from birth year.
46. Ibid. 75 year life expectancy. Estimate uses range from birth year.
47. Ibid. 75 year life expectancy. Estimate uses range from birth year.
48. Adams Family Records.
49. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:91ZS-36.
50. Somerset Pedigree Form and Accompanying Notes supplied by Mrs. John D
Nutting (Elizabeth Adams), November 27, 1936, NorthFiled, Minn.
51. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 60 year life expectancy.
52. Ibid. 60 years life expectancy.
53. Towner Family: Notes from James Towner. 1810.
54. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:91ZS-P9.
55. Ibid. AFN:91ZS-QG.
56. Towner Family: Notes from James Towner. 1810. Page 2 - Reference to marriage of second wife.
57. Marsha Baker. Big Packet of Information. pg 10.
58. Ibid. pg 11.
61. Colonial Families of the USA, (Vol 1, 4). 85 year life expectancy.
62. Gedcom File # 468. File # 17339.
63. Colonial Families of the USA, (Vol 1, 4). 85 year life expectancy.
64. Ibid.
65. Albert C. Bates. Simsbury, CT Births, Marriages, and Deaths Transcribed from the Town Records. The Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, Hartford, CT, 1898.
66. Methodology - Colonial/Early American.
67. Murray Woodruff Wilson.
68. Kelly Jean (Fullmer) Selzle.
69. World Family Tree, Volumn 3, # 6498. World Family Tree estimate.
70. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 60 year life expectancy.
71. Ibid. 60 year life expectancy.
72. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:1HH5-JDJ.
73. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File (TM). July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996.
74. Trowbridge. A History of the Descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, Together With Some Account of Other Families of the Home. 1891.
75. Gedcom File # 468. Note that the Huntley family also marries again into the Bennett's in the early 1700's. Also, Aaron Huntley's children marry into the Mack family in the early 1700's. The Mack family is famous because they married into the Smith family. This Smith family
produced Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church.
77. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Chilmark, Mass to the Year 1850. Boston, MA 1906. 94.
78. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Chilmark, Mass to the Year 1850. Boston, MA 1906. 94.
79. Gedcom File # 468. File # 17339.
80. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. Assumes marriage 1 to 2 years before Lydia's birth, first recorded chilld.
81. Dr. Charles E. Banks. The History of Martha's Vineyard Volumn II: Annals of Chilmark. The Historical Society of Martha's Vineyard, 1925. Sketches of the Early Settlers of Chilmark.
82. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 75 year life expectancy.
83. West Tisbury, Mass. Cemetary.
84. Miss Harriet M. Pease. Inscriptions at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. Mass. Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division.
85. Dr. Charles E. Banks. The History of Martha's Vineyard Volumn II: Annals of Chilmark. The Historical Society of Martha's Vineyard, 1925. Sketches of the Early Settlers of Chilmark.
86. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 75 year life expectancy.
87. Ibid. 75 year life expectancy.
88. Ibid. Assumes 5 year range after spouse's birth date.
89. Ibid. 75 year life expectancy.
90. WFT, Vol 1, #2002. Clarifies birthdate.
91. Dr. Henry Bond. Genealogies of the Families of the Early American Settlers of Watertown, Massachussetts. 1860.
92. Gerald James Parsons. George Adams of Watertown, MA & His Son Daniel of Simsbury, CT. The American Genealogist.
93. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN: 2149-MRS.
94. Stephen M. Lawson. According to this source, date of death is February 17, 1732/33.
95. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN: N9TL-B3.
96. Ibid. AFN: 8MJ6-TC.
97. World Family Tree, Volumn 1, #0259, Phelps Genealogy. Broderbund Software, 1996.
98. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 60 years life expectancy.
99. Ibid. 60 year life expectancy.
100. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Chilmark, Mass to the Year 1850. Boston, MA 1906. 93.
101. Compiled By J. Garder Bartlette for Edward Dean Adams. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass.: His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants. Privately Printed, New York, 1927.
102. William Addams Reitwiesner. A Hitterto Unnoted Descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree. The American Genealogist, Vol. 53-1, January 1977. This conflicts Andrew N. Adams who cites Lydia Rockwood (daughter of Richard Rockwood and Agnes Bicknell) as his first wife. She died Mar 3, 1676.
103. DEATH EVENTS: 17th and 18th Century life spans estimated at 75 years for both genders absent any more specific information about the individual. 19th Century life span estimates based on 85 years for males and 90 years for female. 5 year range age difference assumed.
104. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN: 8WTO-CL.
105. GEDCOM file imported on 24 Aug 1999.
106. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:FBPD-M7.
107. Ibid. AFN:FBPD-M7.
108. L.H. Butterfield, Editor. The Adams Family Papers: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams,
Volumes I - IV. The Belknap Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Reports date as 1673.
109. The Church of Jesus Christ Latter - Day Saints. Family Group Record. Family Search.Com., March 22, 1999. AFN:FS7-J-4P.

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