Adams, Stephen (1778-1859)

Name:

Adams, Stephen (1778-1859)

Title:

Captain, Haverhill Horse Guards, New Hampshire State Militia

Born:

12/09/1778

Birthplace:

Lexington, MA

Died:

08/28/1859

Death Location:

Haverhill, NH

Residence:

Haverhill, NH 1805-1859

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Cabinetmaker
General Store Owner

Father:

Adams, George (1733-1814)

Mother:

Crosby, Elizabeth (1737-1829)

Relations:

Partnership, Adams Carleton, Haverhill, 1821
(Stephen Adams Michael Carleton)
Partnership, Adams Co., Lowell, MA
(Charles J. Adams, Michael Adams, Horace Adams, Ezra B. Adams)

Spouse:

(1) Susan (1786-1809), 1807
(2) Sarah Johnston (1787-1863), 1809

Children:

Samuel P. (1808-67;2 children died young; Capt. in Civil War, N.H. Vols; carpenter joiner)
Stephen (twin -- b.d. 1810)
Sylvia (twin -- b.d. 1810)
Charles Johnston (1811-92; res. Lowell Cambridge, Mass. -- furniture business of Adams Co.; 2 children)
Stephen (1813-; Methodist-Episcopal clergy)
Eliza J. (1815-31)
Horace Johnston (1817-; res. Lowell, Mass. -- furniture business of Adams Co.)
Sarah (1819-1903; m. Wm C. Day; 4 children)
George (1821-)
Michael (; res. Lowell, Mass. -- furniture business of Adams Co.)
Ezra B. (; res. Lowell, Mass. -- furniture business of Adams Co.)
Abbie Bush (1825-94; m. Henry H. Wilder; res. Lowell, Mass.; 3 children)
Anna B. (1829-; m. Geo. W. Aiken of Wentworth)

Notes:

Lexington, Mass. Record of Birth, Marriages, and Deaths, to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright Potter Printing Company, 1898), 2.

William F. Whitcher, History of the Town of Haverhill, New Hampshire. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1919), 370, 379, 381, 452, 554.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

"Cabinet-making Business," Post-Boy, Windsor, Vermont, August 26, 1806.

"Cabinet Furniture," Grafton and Coos Inteligencer, Haverhill, NH, February 14, 1821.