Weymouth New England Genealogy

In 1633 Plymouth list of freemen, John Adams appears ahead ofthose persons admitted on 1 January 1632/1633.In the 1623 Plymouth land division John Adams was granted oneacre, as a passenger on the Fortune. In the 1627 Plymouth cattledivision John Adams, "Eliner Adams", and James Adams were thesecond, third and fourth persons in the sixth company.With four others, John Adams was on 1 July 1633 assigned to mowwhere Mr. Gilson had mowed the year before. John Adams wasassessed 9s. in the tax list of 25 March 1633, and "Widow Adams"was assessed the same amount on 27 March 1634.On 24 October 1633 John Winslow and John Jenny took an inventoryof the goods of John Adams; the total was £71 14s., of which £3710s. was in neat cattle. The inventory was presented at court on11 November `633, and the widow Ellen Adams was namedadministratix, the deceased having left no will; she was boundin the sum of £140, John Barnes surety, to provide £5 apiece toher three children by John Adams - James, John and Susan - whenthey came of age, if she should choose to remarry. The paymentto son James, made by Kenelm Winslow, was recorded on 26December 1651.