William Adams

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Husband William Adams ¹

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1 M Capt. James Adams ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 30 Oct 1734 - West Fallowfield Twp, Chester Co, PA 2
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           Died: 24 Oct 1824 - Toboyne Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 2 5
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         Spouse: Isabel Welden (1736-1825) 2
           Marr: 26 Apr 1756 2

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General Notes: Husband - William Adams

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This family is of English ancestry, and can trace its descent from a certain bookbinder of London who flourished in that city during the latter part of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries.
It was a son of this first Adams, one William by name, who founded the family in America, coming to the colonies as a young man on one of William Penn's vessels. He brought with him machinery for a flour mill purchased for him by his father with the intention of engaging in that line of business in the New World. He landed at the little colony of Chester, Pennsylvania, and there made his home near the Swedish settlement. He soon abandoned the mill project and, marrying a woman of the settlement just referred to, removed to Philadelphia, where he established a bookbindery, the first in the city. His children all moved into Chester County and there became farmers.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 449.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1012.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 450.

4 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 163, 276.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 658.