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- From written records we know that Thomas Adams was "a man of some distinction in his immediate vicinity, and in his later years, he purchased a farm in the neighborhood of Limerick, Maine, to which farm, he and his family retired."
Records show that a Thomas Adams of his age was listed in the 1790 York, Maine census as a "tanner and a currier," tanning and dressing leather.
In 1790 he married Mary Perry in Limerick, Maine, and in 1811, at the age of 38, he married Elizabeth "Betsey" Dolloff.
In the 1800 Limerick, Maine census, a Thomas Adams is listed as having ahousehold with 2 females under 10 (which would correspond to Polly andSally), and 2 males under the age of 10 (John and Oliver), and one male between the ages of 26 and 44 (himself, and son, Thomas) and one female between the ages of 26 and 44 (Mary Perry Adams, his wife.) Listed immediately below his name in that census record, is that of John or Joseph of Josia (illegible) Perry, James Perry, Widow Perry, and John Perry, who are very likely the family of his first wife, Mary Perry.
Thomas Adams died young in 1827, at the age of 52, leaving a young, pregnant widow and four children.
His son, Thomas Frederick Adams, was born four months after Thomas Adams' death, Betsey Dolloff and Thomas Adams had been married only 14 years at the time she was widowed. As they reached the appropriate age, at least two of their sons, Thomas Frederick Adams and Albert C. Adams, were apprenticed to trades at the age of 13, and likely their income was much needed by the fatherless family.
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Old Dead Relatives
1771 - 1827 (55 years)
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