John Westland Adams

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: KHR3-MDF
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 167265735
• Immigration: Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada; From Ireland
• _UID: 2A6C0E2EBBFB4D3DA804D4AAE8438B1C0E03
• Residence: 23 Jan 1803, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concession 1 Lot 22
• Immigration-Witness: 1816, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; From New York State
• Immigration: 1816, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Greene County New York, United States
• Census: 1842, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Eastern Canada
• Census: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1871, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1881, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1882, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; school teacher
• Census: 1891, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Christened:
Name John Westland Adams
Gender Male
Record Type Baptism
Birth Date 23 Jan 1803
Baptism Place Coxsackie, New York, USA

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHR3-MDF

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167265735

Residence:
Description?tab?Abstract/Parcel Register for SW 1/2 Lot 22, I Concession, Bathurst Twp., Lanark Co.; Retrieved 5 Aug 2021 from: https://www.onland.ca/ui/27/books/54639/viewer/984103210?page=132
Submitted By?tab?Gordon_BB
Attached To?tab?John Westland Adams
Birth?tab?23 Jan 1803
Death?tab?29 Jan 1892

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Arrived on the Alexander withwife, 1son +12; 1 son-12; 1 dau +12; 2 dau -12

Census:
birth place - Ireland and Scotland
Settled Bathurst - 01 lot 22
Year - 1817
Born there - 3
Born here - 4
Household - 7
Religion - Methodist

Died:
The son of William (c1776-?) and Henrietta (1777-1820) Adams he was born at Newry, Green Co., New York and baptized at Coxsackie, Greene Co., Neew York. He married first Lillias "Lillie Ferguson (c1802-1868) May 20th, 1825 at First Presbyterian Church at Perth by the Rev. William Bell. He next married Helen Gregory Davidson (c1819-1882) January 12th , 1870 at the residence of J. F. Kennedy, Perth, by the Rev. Thomas Henderson and lastly he married Susan (Morris) McEwen (c1821-?) April 3rd, 1884 at Brockville.

Though his Death Notice in the Perth Courier February 5th, 1892 records his birth at Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland all other sources record the United States with his last marriage recording New York State.

Death of Mr. John W. Adams. On Friday morning last, our venerable townsman, Mr. John W. Adams, on getting up in the morning to kindle the fire was seized with a paralytic stroke, and died shortly after. He had been in his usual good health, apparently, but something like shortness of breath had troubled him for some time, though he could still walk long distances, and was considered even at his age an active man. He had just finished his 89th year on the Saturday before his death.

The late Mr. Adams was one of our oldest inhabitants. He was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in the year 1803, and when a few years old went with his father to New Jersey, U.S., where the latter became interested in a cotton factory. The venture being disastrous, the father removed to Perth, in the year 1816 - the date of its settlement - and drew land on the Scotch Line, where he farmed till his death. His son John worked on the farm also, but was a good mechanic as well as a farmer, being handy in making anything out of wood or iron. When sickles began to give way for cradles for cutting grain, fifty years ago, Mr. Adams turned his hand to making cradles, and supplied many a local farmer with these new implements. The strides from the reaping hooks of Biblical days to the self-binding harvester of 1892 tells of the time spanned by Mr. Adams' years, and the wonderful improvements in mechanical contrivances in his lifetime.

Mr. Adams was a noted teacher of vocal music, and most of the classes in old times were instructed by he and his brother William now dead many years. Mr. Adams was a member of Knox (Presbyterian) church and a faithful attendant at its ministrations.

He was married three times but was without children. His last wife survives her aged partner, and has the sympathy of all friends.

The funeral took place on Monday last to the old burying ground, and was attended largely both from town and country. Rev. James Ross, B.D., of Knox church, preached a funeral sermon last Sabbath morning in memory of the deceased from the words: Well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things." The few things over which he was faithful were brought out and recommended as examples to all Christians.

The Perth Courier;
Friday, 5 Feb 1892;
Vol. LVIII, No. 22, Col. 4, Pg. 5;

John married Lilias "Lily" Ferguson on 20 May 1825 in Knox Presbyterian Church, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Lilias (daughter of John Ferguson, * and Catherine McIntyre) was born on 24 May 1802 in Callander Parish, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 11 Dec 1868 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
John W. Adams & Lilias "Lily" Ferguson marriage, no witnesses recorded.

1. Louise McKay was born on 21 Sep 1831 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States; died on 11 Oct 1906 in Glen Tay, (Adamsville), Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
2. John Westland Adams, III was born in 1842 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 17 Mar 1874 in North Crosby Twp, Leeds & Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada.

John married Helen Gregory Davidson in 1870. Helen (daughter of Andrew Davidson and Sarah Gregory) was born on 14 Jul 1818 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was christened on 12 Jan 1819; died on 31 Jan 1882 in Portsmouth, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Susan Morris on 3 Apr 1884 in Brockville, Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario, Canada. Susan was born on 9 Mar 1829 in Ireland; died on 15 Sep 1905 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Name?tab?John W Adams
Age?tab?81
Birth Year?tab?1803
Birth Place?tab?New York
Marriage Date?tab?3 Apr 1884
Marriage Place?tab?Leeds, Ontario, Canada
Father?tab?William Adams
Mother?tab?Henrietta Adams
Spouse?tab?Susan McEwen

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: KCHR-LL2
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 230377844
• _UID: AB2A24D915D948C2BEA1FB578F9A53746B24
• Occupation: Bef 1796, Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Census: 1800, Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, United States; USA
• Immigration: 1816, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; From New York State
• Census: 1842, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Index by E. Miller
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

(Research):Bathurst Concession 1 Lot 22 SW - William Adams

The patent for Lot 22 Concession 1 Bathurst was granted to William Adams in 1824 and remained in his family until the 1870s. He was recorded as arriving from Ireland (1796) via the United States to Canada (1816). Attempts to identify his family have failed as for a search for the family name of Henrietta, his wife. It appears she lived in or about, Providence Rode Island, United States before coming to Canada with William.


Old Town of Coxsackie

March 24th 1772, the northern par of what is now Greene county was formed into a district called the District of Coxsackie, and it was erected into a town March 7th 1788. Of the public records made during the time it was a district, scarcely a vestige remains, except the laying out of a few roads. The only document which is of a public nature, that has been found, is the assessment roll of the year 1787, and the importance of this, as being the only list of taxable inhabitants of this part of the county at that date, fully justifies us in giving it entire. It includes what are now the towns of Durham, Greenville, Coxsackie, New Baltimore, Athens and Cairo.

A Tax List of the District of Coxsackie, agreeable to a warrant assigned to us the subscribers' assessors of said District, dated the 12th day of June 1787 by the Board of Supervisors for the County of Albany, at 2 1/2 d. on a pound:

FIRST NAME?tab?LAST NAME?tab?TAX(?)
GARRIT?tab?ABEEL?tab? 15

DR. PETER?tab?ADAMS 8

EPHRAIM?tab?ADAMS 1

Birth:
of Ballymoney

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCHR-LL2

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230377844

Census:
Wm Adams
2 males 16-21
1 male 21-45
1 femaile 16-21

Catalog Record - Item Number - Film/Digital Note
New York, 1790 thru 1840 federal census : population schedules?tab??tab?
New York (1800 census): Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, and Greene counties (NARA Series M32, Roll 22)
Census schedules, 1800?tab??tab?New York: Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, and Greene Counties (NARA Series M32, Roll 22)

Citation
""United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRZ-HJP : accessed 11 August 2021), Wm Adams, Coxsackie, Greene, New York, United States; citing p. 1114, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 22; FHL microfilm 193,710.


Immigration:
Arrived on the Alexander withwife, 1son +12; 1 son-12; 1 dau +12; 2 dau -12

Census:
Bathurst Concession 1 Lot 22
William Adams, 1818 Ire & Scotland, 2 b. there, 4 born here, Presbyterian & Anglican
John Adams, 1817, 3 b. there, 4 b. here, Methodist
?i?Interpretation:?/i?
Both William and John reported on the same people born in Canada; William did not include John in his list of people born abroad.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
DIED.
At Scotch Line, Bathurst, on the 24th ult., in the 87th year of his age, Mr. Wm. Adams, Sen. He emigrated to America, in the year 1796, and settled in Bathurst at the commencement of the settlement in 1816, where he has ever since remained."
The Bathurst Courier; Friday, 4 Jun 1852; Vol. XVIII, No. 33; Col. 3, Pg. 3

Bruce Gordon:
Though I can find no evidence he is buried here, and he was enumerated as a Baptist on the 1851/2 Census, it is most likely he is buried here with his late wife and her memorial was broken when transcribed in 1993 and I was unable to locate the fragments in 2016.

William married Henrietta Bartlett about 1800. Henrietta (daughter of Jehu "John" Bartlett and Sarah Hadaway) was born on 10 Jun 1777 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 5 Aug 1820 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Old Burying Ground / Pioneer Cemetery, Craig Street, Perth, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FamilySearch ID: KZN4-55P
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 170044664
• _UID: 21C999E08AAC49F8B1AC5C3EE314CB3DD038
• Immigration-Witness: 1816, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; From New York State

Notes:

(Research):Name ? ?
Henrietta Bartlett
Last Changed: October 27, 2020 by
Sex ? ?
Female
Last Changed: May 25, 2012 by
Birth ? ?
10 June 1777
Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Last Changed: October 27, 2020 by
Christening
Death ? ?
25 February 1812
Reason This Information Is Correct:
Updating to standardized date
Last Changed: November 17, 2020 by
Burial ? ?
1812
Old First Cemetery, Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Reason This Information Is Correct:
find a grave
Last Changed: October 27, 2020 by

Birth:
Name?tab?Henrietta Bartlett
Birth Date?tab?10 Jun 1777
Birth Place?tab? Rhode Island, USA
Page number?tab?82

Name?tab?Henrietta Adams
Spouse Name?tab?William Adams
Death Date 5 Jul 1820
Death Place?tab?Perth, Canada

Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
Volume Number and Title: Vol? 12: Revolutionary and Newspapers: Marriages, Deaths, Revolutionary Rolls
Page number?tab?398

Providence Journal, Deaths Published from January 3, 1820 to December 31, 1820

Name?tab?Henrietta Bartlett
Sex?tab?Female
Birth Date?tab?10 Jun 1777
Birthplace?tab?Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Father's Name?tab?John Bartlett
Mother's Name?tab?Sarah
witness John Dexter, Town Clerk, recorded 14 Sep 1779

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZN4-55P

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170044664

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Arrived on the Alexander withwife, 1son +12; 1 son-12; 1 dau +12; 2 dau -12

Died:
Name?tab?Henrietta Adams
Spouse Name?tab?William Adams
Death Date 5 Jul 1820
Death Place?tab?Perth, Canada
Page number?tab?398

" Henrietta, wife of William, formerly of this town, at Perth, Upper Canada."

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: B9DA620A2ECE4853BE877F475878EA57B2E2

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jeho "John" Bartlett
• _UID: AC4D06271E3F47D58CF998EEA83D5E11FE7B

Jehu married Sarah Hadaway on 13 Sep 1761 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. Sarah was born in 1741 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died on 7 Nov 1794 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 972021E3AF254BDE893A4100CA5A9CF672F4

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: ED139F2D195A47D5AC9AB55209F2228A4F6B

Noel married Susannah Lovet on 19 Sep 1722 in Rhode Island, United States. Susannah was born in 1701; died in 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 3F29FD55DED44EB4A6FA091920C6E41C16D1