Captain Moses Adams

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married: 12 Jun 1758, Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Rachel Leland, the daughter of Daniel and Mary (Death) Leland. She was born on 26 February 1737 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She died on Saturday 16 July 1825 in Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Hepsebath Adams (1758-1842) 2. Rhoda Adams (1761-1835) 3. Moses Adams (1763-1767) 4. Mary Adams (1767-____) 5. Rachel Adams (1769-____) 6. Ruth Adams (1772-____) 7. Aaron Adams (1775-1824)
• Offices Held: 1775; He was elected a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court. He served again in 1782 and 1783.
• Military: 19 Apr 1775; During the Alarm on 19 April 1775, he was the First lieutenant of the Medway Company in Col. John Smith's regiment. A year later, he was promoted to Captain of the 9th company in Col. Ephraim Wheelock's Suffolk Regiment. In September 1777, his company was in col. Benjamin Hawes' Regiment.
• Will: 7 Nov 1815, Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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Adams (1898) has their marriage occurring in 1756.

Adams (1898) gives her death as 1856, which he takes from the Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide's account of the Marriages and Deaths in Medway from 1814 to 1849.