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Henry Adams (ca. 1583-1646) was the son of John Adams and Agnes Stone, the grandson of Henry Adams, and the great-grandson of John Adams. He married Emily Squire, and the family emigrated in 1638 from England to Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England to about 1272 A.D. Famous descendants of Henry Adams include U.S. Presidents John Adams (1735-1826) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams (1722-1803), and U.S. Representative and U.S. Emassador to Great Britain Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886).

John Adams was born in York (now Adams) County, Pennsylvania, in 1753, probably the son of John Adams, born in 1728 in Lancaster, Ireland. He was a Revolutionary soldier in the Pennsylvania regiment. He married Margaret McGuire in 1798 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He died in 1824 in Henry County, Kentucky. His grandson, William Clifford Adams (1811-1890) was born in Henry County, Kentucky, the son of John and Mary (Polly) Clifford Adams. He migrated to Barthomew County, Indiana, in 1820 with his parents. He married 1) Cinderella Bunnell (1814-1846) in 1831. They had six children. He married 2) Eliza Ann Masters (1825-1853) in 1846. They had three children. He married 3) Elizabeth Gale Cummings Adams (1827-1861), widow of his brother, John G., in 1853. They had four children. He married 4) Sarah Jane Phillips in 1862. They had six children. He died in 1890. Descendants lived in Indiana and elsewhere.