Edith 'Rosamund' Squire

Personal and Family Information

Edith was born about 29 MAY 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England, the daughter of Henry Squire and Unknown.

She died on 21 JAN 1672 in Medfield, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

She had two marriages/partners. Her first husband was Henry Adams, who she married on 19 OCT 1609 in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England . Their nine known children were Captain Samuel (1618-1688), Henry (?-1676), Thomas (1612-1688), Joseph (1626-?), Jonathan (?-?), Ursula (?-?), Peter (?-?), John (?-?) and Edward (?-?).

Her second husband was John Fussell, who she married in 1651 in England. They had no known children.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11014343

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Adams_%28Braintree%29

Henry Adams, Sr Find A Grave Memorial# 11014343 Henry Adams* (1583-1646) was born in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. He is the youngest of 4 children of John Adams* (1555-1604) also of Barton St. David, and Agnes Stone* (___?-1615/16).

Henry and all his known ancestors were Yeomen famers from Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. Henry was also a maltster. Henry came to America with his wife and all but one (Jonathan) of his children in 1638. His son, Jonathan came in 1651.

Henry Adams was known popularly as The Founder of New England, probably because of the extraordinary number (89) of his grandchildren. Apparently, Henry Adams was influenced by Aquila Purchase, Master of Trinity School at Dorchester, who in 1613/14 married Anna Squire, sister to Henry's wife, Edith Squire*, both daughters of Henry Squire*. Henry Squire had three daughters who married and went to New England, all seemingly associated with a group known as the Dorchester Adventurers, led by the Rev. John White, whose first group of Dorset Pilgrims arrived in New England on the ship Mary & John in 1630. This group was largely absorbed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in later years, and by the time Henry Adams came in 1638, many of the orginal Dorset Pilgrims, particularly those who would not take religious oaths as a prerequisite for citizenship, had moved well into the interior settling around river valleys in MA and CT along the Indian or Dutch territorial frontiers. Windsor CT was one of their principal settlements.

Henry Adams with his large family seems to have preferred settling near the coast and thus stayed in Braintree MA, which is now known as Quincy MA. Henry Adams' biographers do not associate him with the more radical and religious Puritans, nor with the liberal and outlawed Pilgrims, but rather see him and other followers of Rev. John White as adventurers, seeking a new world where the boundarys of a class society could be overcome.

http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/hadam.html

About Henry Adams of Braintree

Excerpt from: “The Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., and his Descendants, also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass, 1632-1897” complied and edited by Andrew N. Adams, published by the author 1898: The Tuttle Company, Printers, Rutland, VT. [This is transcribed exactly as it appears in the book. msac]

Henry Adams of Braintree, called thus because he was one of the earliest or first settlers in that part of the Massachusetts Bay designated “Mt. Wollaston,” which was incorporated in 1640 as the town of Braintree. It included what is now Quincy, Braintree and Randolph, Mass.

He is believed to have arrived in Boston with his wife, eight sons and a daughter, in 1632 or 1633. The colonial authorities at Boston allotted to him 40 acres of land at “The Mount,” for the ten persons in his family, Feb. 24, 1639-40.

The name of his wife is not known, nor where and when she died. It has been believed that she returned to England with her son John and daughter Ursula, and died there, which appears not improbable. Henry Adams died in Braintree, Oct. 6, 1646, and was buried on the 8th.

His will was proved June 8, 1647, and is as follows:

“First, my will is that my sonne Peter and John, and my daughter Ursula, shall have the grounde in the neck, both upland and meadow during the term I was to enjoy it, until it returne into the towne’s hands againe, from whom I had it; also the aker in the mill fields: my will is that my bookes shall be divided amongst all my children, that my wife shall have and enjoy all my other goods so long as shee live unmarried, and if shee marry, then my will is y’t Joseph, Edward and my daughter Ursula should enjoy all my ground in the fielde y’t lieth on the way to Weymouth Ferry, and my house lott, with all the houses and fruit trees and all my movables at the death or marriage of my wife, provided that and their mother shall pay to my sonne Samuel that which is due to him for the ground I bought of him, to be paid in convenient tyme; but in case God soe deal with my wife that she bee constrained to make use of something by way of salee, shee may: finally, for movalbles, my will is that my sonne Peter and John shall have an equal share with my sonne Joseph and Edward, and my daughter Ursula.” [See N.E. Hist. And Gene. Register, Vol. VII, p. 35 (1853)].

That Henry Adams came from Devonshire on the south coast of England, has become a current and fixed belief, from the fact that his great, great grandson, President John Adams, erected a monument to his memory in the old church yard at Quincy with the inscription,

“In memory of Henry Adams who took his fight from the Dragon persecution in Devonshire, England, and alighted with eight sons near Mt. Wallaston. One of the sons returned to England; and after taking time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield, and two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left and, remained here, -- an original proprietor in the township of Braintree.”

The monument commemorates “the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, patience, temperance, frugality, industry and perseverance” of the Adams ancestors.

President John Quincy Adams dissented from this opinion of his father that Henry Adams came from Devonshire.

After giving the matter particular and thorough investigation, both in this country and in England, he published it as his conviction that Henry Adams was from Braintree in the county of Essex, on the east coast of England. “The statement in the Alden Collection,” he says, “that the first Henry came from Devonshire was received the collector of epitaphs from my father; but I believe it was not from Devonshire but from Braintree in the county of Essex, that he came. My father supposed that he formed part of the company that came with Gov. Winthrop in 1630, most of whom were from Devonshire. But at the time my father formed this opinion, Gov. Winthrop’s Journal had not been published.”

Winthrop’s Journal, I. 37, says, “1632: 14 Aug; The Braintree Company which had begun to settle down at Mt. Wollaston by order of Court, removed to Newtown. These were Mr. Hooker’s Company.” [See Family Memorial by Elisha Thayer; Note p. 38]

Hooker himself arrived in Sept. 1633, but his Company, which was mostly made up from Chelmsford – perhaps also from Braintree and other neighboring villages of Essex county, - had arrived the year before. Hence it appears highly probably that Henry Adams from Braintree in Essex joined Hooker’s Company and arrived in Boston in 1632. Dr. James Savage, author of the Genealogical Dictionary of early first-comers of New England, concurs in the opinion of President John Quincy Adams.

The brothers Adams [sons] were among the active citizens of Chelmsford, in England.

Moreover, there may have been other persons of the Adams name who came in Hooker’s company, and removed with him from Newtown to Hartford and vicinity. They may have been kindred of Henry Adams.

It is a matter of regret that so little has been preserved and is positively known of the ancestry, life and character of the noted progenitor of the Adams family of Quincy. It is known that he was a malster as well as a yeoman, or farmer, and a plain, unassuming man of tact and ability, who came to America for a better opportunity for his large family. There is nothing to show that he bore any titles, or assumed any rank among nobility

http://henryadamsofbraintree.com/id3.html

Some well known descendants include Katherine Hepburn, "Jock" and "Sonny" Whitney (financers of "Gone With The Wind"), Lee de Forrest (inventor)President John Calvin Coolidge and both US Presidents Adams.

Note 2

Arrived in America in 1636 from England and was a farmer.

Adams, a Massachusetts family of statesmen, scholars, and authors that included two Presidents of the United States. It is considered by many historians to be the most remarkable family in American history. Intellectually gifted and articulate, its members made notable contributions to public life and letters from colonial times to the 20th century.

WGA

Note 3

my 10x Great Grandmother

Medfield, Suffolk County is presently Norfolk County

Reg. v.59 p. 322: "Edith Squire ws born in 1587, the daughter of Henry Squire"