[Ancestor] Adsit

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1 M John Adsit ¹

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         Spouse: Abigail Graves (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Adsit

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This family was founded in America by four brothers from Sussex county, England: John, Samuel, Benjamin and Stephen Adshead, who came early in the eighteenth century. The name passed through several changes of orthography until it reached its present form Adsit. John, one of the brothers, settled at Lyne, Connecticut, in 1716, the others settling in Dutchess county, New York, where they died, descendants going north up to the Hudson Valley, where they are found as far north as Saratoga county. [GPHNP, 351]

The first Adsit in America of whom there is any known record was a John Adsit, who resided in Withersfield, and Hartford, Connecticut, before locating at Lyme, Connecticut, about 1716. Originally he had, supposedly, come from Essex, England, when a small lad. No record of place or date of birth has as yet been found, but his death is recorded as of January, 1734-35. He married (first), in 1653, Sarah Howard, of Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (second) Mary ---. Children of the first marriage: 1. John, died in 1712, at Block Island. 2. Samuel, died in 1712, at Hartford. 3. George, died in 173-. Children of second marriage: 4. John (2), of whom further. 5. Sarah, born in 1717, died the same year. 6. Samuel, born in 1719, died in 1806. 7. Mary, born in 1723, died in 1790. 8. Benjamin, born in 1728, died in 1793. 9. Stephen, born in 1730, died in 1796.
John Adsit, son of John and Mary Adsit, was born in 1714 and died in 1790. He married, in 1738-39, Abigail Graves, of Lyme, Connecticut. Their children were: Sarah, born in 1739. 2. Mary, baptized in 1741. 3. Ebenezer, born in 1742, died in 1744. 4 Molly, born in 1744. 5. Ebenezer (again), born in 1747, died in 1826. 6. John, born in 1753, died that same year. 7. John, of whom further. [HNWP, 511]

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 512.