Edith Fussell

Edith Squire was born about 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England. based on baptism She was baptized on MAY 29 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England. She immigrated in 1638 to Massachusetts. She emigrated in 1638 from England. She died on JAN 21 1672/73 in Medfield, MA.

Edith SQUIRE

• Father: Henry SQUIRE
• Mother: UNKNOWN
• Birth: ABT. 1587, Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England
• Baptism: 29 MAY 1587, Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England
• Death: 21 JAN 1673, Medfield, Massachusetts
• Partnership with: Henry ADAMS, Marriage: 19 OCT 1609, Charlton Mackrell, Somersetshire, England

Children

• (1) Child: Henry ADAMS Birth: 1610, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
• (2) Child: Thomas ADAMS Birth: 1612, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
• (3) Child: Jonathan ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1614, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
• (4) Child: Samuel ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1617, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
• (5) Child: Urusula ADAMS Birth: 1619, Barton St. David, Somerset, England
• (6) Child: Peter ADAMS Birth: 1621, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England
• (7) Child: John ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1622, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England
• (8) Child: Joseph ADAMS Birth: 9 FEB 1626, Kings Weston, Somerset, England
• (9) Child: Edward ADAMS Birth: ABT. 1629, Kingweston, Somersetshire, England

Partnership with: John FUSSELL Marriage: ABT. 1651, England

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

Edith Squire Female, #17, (29 May 1587 - 1673)

Edith Squire was christened on 29 May 1587 in Charlton, Mackrell, Somersetshire, England.1,2 She was the daughter of Henry Squire.1,2 On 19 October 1609 Edith, at age 22, married Henry Adams, at age 26, son of John Adams and Agnes Stone, in Charlton, Mackrell, Somersetshire, England.1,2 About 1651 Edith, married John Fussell, in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.3,2 Edith Squire died in 1673 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, at age 85 years.2

Charts

   Ancestry of Robert Roy (#1)

   Ancestry of Robert Roy (#2)

   Ancestry of Robert Roy (#3)

   Ancestry of Robert Roy (#4)

Children of Edith Squire and Henry Adams

1. Christopher Adams4
2. Lt. Henry Adams+4 (1604 - 21 Feb 1676)
3. Lt. Thomas Adams+4,5 (25 Mar 1612 - 20 Jul 1688)
4. Capt. Samuel Adams+4,5,6 (1617 - 24 Jan 1688/89)
5. Deacon Jonathan Adams+4,5,6 (1619 - 28 Jul 1690)
6. Ursula Adams4 (19 Jul 1619 - 20 Feb 1679)
7. Peter Adams+4,5 (1 Mar 1622 - 23 Oct 1690)
8. John Adams+4 (4 Dec 1622 - Jun 1706)
9. Joseph Adams+3 (9 Feb 1626 - 6 Dec 1694)
10. Mary Adams+3 (1628 - 11 Oct 1711)
11. Ensign Edward Adams+4,7,5 (19 Apr 1629 - 12 Nov 1716)

Citations

• Fairbanks, Hiram Francis. "English Ancestry of Henry Adams of Braintree", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LIX (59) (July 1905).
• Burke's Peerage Limited. Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America. New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1975.
• Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994.
• Jameson, E. O. The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons and The Genealogical Records of Many Early and Other Families in Medway, Mass. 1713-1886. Providence, Rhode Island: J.A. & R.A. Reid Printers, 1886.
• Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.
• Adams, Andrew N. A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., and his Descendants also John Adams of Cambridge, Mass., 1632-1897. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company, 1898.
• Muse, Jeanne. Family Group Sheets of the Ancestry of Jeanne Muse. Asheville, North Carolina: Jeanne Muse, 20 August 1995.

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• John Fussell Find A Grave Memorial# 52375644 John first married Elizabeth (last name unknown) in England, prior to 1633. She died in Weymouth, Mass. before 1651.

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The marriage of Henry ADAMS and Edith SQUIRE took place inside Charlton Mackrell Church on 19th October 1609. Henry Adams was born in Barton St David in 1583, but the Adams family is also thought to have had earlier connections with Charlton Adam. Henry Adams became a farmer in Charlton Mackrell, renting rectory land in 1613.

Edith Squire was one of the daughters of Henry Squire, the son of a Rector of Charlton Mackrell. Her grandfather, the Rev William Squire, was appointed to Charlton Mackrell in 1541 but was "deprived" of his living by the Diocese in 1554 (when Mary came to the throne of England) as he already had a wife Alice and son Henry. He was re-instated in 1561, after taking a public oath of chastity, until his death in 1567. Edith was born (baptised 29th May 1587) in Charlton Mackrell (though she later lived in the adjacent parish of Kingweston) and she and her husband Henry Adams lived here with their children before emigrating to America in, probably, 1638.

Edith is stated to be the ancestress of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, as well as of Samuel Adams who also signed the Declaration of Independence; while Presidents Millard Filmore and William Howard Taft were descandants of her two sisters (Ann, who married Aquila Purchase, and Margaret, who married John Shepard).

Charlton Macrkrell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Mackrell The Charltons have been home to several of the ancestors of politicians in the United States of America. Henry Adams and Edith Squire were married in the parish church in 1609 and she is thought to be the ancestor of Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, as well as of Samuel Adams, who also signed the Declaration of Independence, while Presidents Millard Fillmore and William Howard Taft were descendants of her two sisters Ann and Margaret.[5]

Edith (Squire) Adams (1587 - 1672)

Edith Adams formerly Squire aka Fussell
Born 29 May 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, Englandmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Henry Squire and [mother unknown]
Sister of Sarah (Squire) Batt, Samuel Squire, Frances Squire, Ann (Squire) Oliver and Margaret (Squire) Sheppard
Wife of Henry Adams — married 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton Mackrell ,Somerset, Englandmap
Wife of John Fussell — married 1651 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Henry Adams, Thomas Adams, Samuel Adams, Jonathan Adams Sr., Ursula (Adams) Crafts, Peter Adams, John Adams Sr., Joseph Adams Sr. and Edward Adams
Died 21 Jan 1672 at age 84 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Edith Squire was baptized 29 May 1587 at Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, daughter of Henry Squire; her mother's name is not recorded.[1] She married first Henry Adams at Charlton Mackrell 19 Oct 1609.[2] They had children (baptized at Barton St. David and Kingweston, Somerset):

Henry b. 1610
Thomas b. 1612
Jonathan b. 1614
Samuel b. 1617
Ursula b. 1619
Peter b. 1621
John b. 1622
Joseph b. 1626
Edward b. 1629
The family migrated to New England about 1639.[3]

Henry Adams died 1646 in Braintree, Massachusetts and Edith married second, about 1651, John Fussell. The death of Edith Fussell, wife of John, was recorded 21 Jan 1672/73 in Medfield.[4][5]

Research Notes

Edith did not have a middle name Rosamund.

Sources

↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58185291e93790eca3e1d73a : viewed 8 Dec 2022) baptism Edith Squire 29 May 1587
↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581859eee93790eb7fa38a3e : viewed 8 Dec 2022) marriage Henry Adams to Edith Squire 19 Oct 1609
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration directory: immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: a concise compendium. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015, p. 2
↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 213
"Fussell, Edith, w. John, Jan. 21, 1672."
"Fussell, John, Feb. 21, 1675/6."
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-7G4G?cc=2061550&w... : 13 July 2016), Norfolk > Medfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1651-1876 > image 170 of 601; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. (Image of town record copy made in 1850)
Cary Family History. Joiner, Rev. Darrell and Sallyann
Chamberlain,, George Walter, M.S. Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore: Reprint, 1984
Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families Of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850, Including the modern town of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3.
Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass.: his English ancestry and some of his descendants. New York: Privately printed, 1927, p. 49.
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