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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



or Kistard; Catharine, married Joiiii Mor- 

 ris ; Mary, married Israel Morris ; Mar- 

 garet, married Paul Casselberry ; Elizabeth, 

 married Thomas Bull ; Ann, married Jacob 

 Umstadt; Hannah, married Owen Evans. 



(3) Abraham Adams died in 1738, and 

 letters were granted to Rachel, his daugh- 

 ter, a spinster. There is mention of two 

 children, Ann and Abigail. 



Walter Adams and his brother were 

 brothers of Henry Adams, who came to 

 New England and was a founder of the 

 Adams family there, at Braintree, ]Massa- 

 chusetts. Walter, his son Richard, and his 

 son Abraham were Quakers. 



Conrad Custard, husband of Susanna 

 Adams, (daughter of Richard), owned a 

 large tract of land immediately adoining 

 the tract surveyed to Ensign John Adams, 

 of Nockamixon township, in 1763. 



John Adams and James Adams, possibly 

 and probably brothers, lived in Nocka- 

 mixon township, Bucks county. There are 

 a few records at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 

 which bear James Adams's signature. He 

 was also an ensign in the provincial ser- 

 vice. Associated Companies of Bucks coun- 

 ty, in 1747. (See Colonial Records, vol. 

 v., p. 209 ; also Pennsylvania Archieves, 

 second series, vol. ii., p. 505). This was 

 nine years before John Adams held a like 

 commission in the provincial service in the 

 Associated Companies of Bucks county. 

 There is nothmg to establish that James 

 Adams and John Adams were related, nei- 

 ther can be found any data of their former 

 residence or whose children they were. 

 The only solution is that they were both 

 possibly sons of Abraham Adams ; the lat- 

 ter having died intestate no list of his chil- 

 dren is obtainable. The fact that John 

 Adams held land adjoining that of Conrad 

 Custer is a possible solution, he having 

 been raised by his aunt Susanna. 



Richard Adams, of Providence town- 

 ship, Philadelphia, whose will is dated 

 February i, 1847-8, and probated March 

 24, 1747-48, mentions son Abraham's chil- 

 dren, Ann and Abagail, then letters were 

 granted to Abraham's daughter Rachel. 

 There at once seems to be some discrep- 

 ancy which is most ditificult to explain. 



James' commission in the provincial ser- 

 vice, as above stated, was dated in 1747, 

 which tends to show that he might have 

 been disinherited by his grandfather. Then, 

 again, there is a possibility that James and 

 John Adams are one and the same man, 

 but this is very doubtful, as their names 

 are mentioned distinctly and separately in 

 the old records. 



(i) John Adams, ensign, Provincial 

 Service, of Nockamixon township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, died in Nockamixon 

 township. May 22, 1807. He married Mary 

 . He was buried in the old Nocka- 

 mixon church graveyard. His will dated 

 March 21, 1807, proved June 8, same year, 

 is recorded in Will Book No. 7, p. 278, in 

 the registrer of wills office, Doylestown, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Jiilm Adams, of Nockamixon, served in 

 llu' provincial service in 1756. He held a 

 commission as ensign in one of the com- 

 panies of the Associated Companies of 

 Bucks county. (See Pennsylvania 

 Archieves, vol. iii., p. 19; also Pennsyl- 

 vania Archives, second series, vol. ii., p. 

 531). Captain William Ramsey was cap- 

 tain of the company in which John Adams 

 served and held his commission as ensign 

 in 1756, and was also from Nockamixon. 

 township, Bucks county. John Johnson 

 was the lieutenant of the company. John 

 Adams of Nockamixon, and Mary his wife, 

 had the following children : Mary, Eliza- 

 beth, Margaret, George, Henry, John 

 Jacob. 



George and Henry, sons of John Adams 

 of Nockamixon, served in the Nockamixon 

 Company of Associators in 1775. George 

 was sergeant of the company, and the son, 

 John was a soldier in the Continental army 

 during the Revolutionary war. 



The first record that we have of John 

 Adams of Nockami.xon owning any land 

 is a warrant that was granted March 26, 

 1754, to John Adams, for land in Nocka- 

 mixon township, Bucks county, upon which 

 a survey was returned for fifty-four acres 

 and 113 peiches. A patent for this same 

 land Wis granted April 26, 1726, to Abra- 

 ham Fryling. John Adams had some 

 trouble with this land, for on May 19, 1763, 

 he entered a caveat against the acceptance 

 of a survey made for Archibald Merrin, 

 which took in the above mentioned land 

 and improvements. (See Pennsylvania 

 Archieves, third series, vol. ii., p. 275). The 

 above land was surveyed by J. Hart, for 

 which he gave a receipt, June 26, 1763, 

 which is recorded in Doylestown, Pennsyl- 

 vania, in Deed Book No. 32, p. 169. This 

 vcceipt also mentions the date of the war- 

 rant, March 26, 1754. 



(H) John Adams, private in Captain 

 Samuel Watson's company, of Durham 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 was a son of John Adams of Nockamixon 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 born in Nockamixon township, November 

 3- 1759, tlied in Durham township, Novem- 

 ber J 2, 1826. He married Christina Klinker, 

 December 15, 1789, at the Tohickon Ger- 

 man Reformed church. Some time after 

 the Revolutionary war he moved into Dur- 

 ham township, where he lived until his 

 death. He is buried in the old Durham 

 church graveyard. Christina Klinker, the 

 wife of John Adams, of Durham, was born 

 in Nockf.mixon township August 15, 1770, 

 died in Durham township October 2. 1847, 

 and is buried in the old Durham church 

 grc-.veyard. She was the daughter of John 

 and Mary Klinker of Nockamixon town- 

 ship, Bucks ^county, Pennsylvania. 



John Adams, of Durham township. Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the 

 Cortinental army during the Revolution- 

 ary war. He served as a private in Cap- 

 tarn Samuel Watson's company of the Sec- 

 ond Pennsylvania Battalion under Colonel 



