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1794 - 1859 (64 years)-
Name Micah Adams Born 21 Jun 1794 New Hampshire, USA 
Gender Male Lived 1820 Malta, Morgan, Ohio, United States Lived 1827 Bucklin Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States Lived 1830 Wayne, Michigan, United States Lived 1850 Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan ),( Died 15 Feb 1859 Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States Buried Newburgh Cemetery, Livonia, Michigan Person ID I1 Nau Last Modified 14 Dec 2013
Family 1 Julia Lewis, b. 23 Feb 1808, d. 3 Jun 1833, Nankin, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States (Age 25 years) Children 1. Charles W Adams, b. 18 Jan 1831, Michigan, USA , d. 13 Feb 1832, Wayne, Michigan Territory, USA (Age 1 years)2. Julia E Adams, b. 1833, Wayne, Michigan Territory, USA , d. Yes, date unknownFamily ID F5 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Matilda Durkee, b. 22 Nov 1803, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA , d. 1 Sep 1828, Nankin, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States (Age 24 years) Married 2 Jul 1820 Morgan, Ohio, United States Children 1. Erasmus D Adams, b. 27 Dec 1822, d. 1 Oct 1846, Wayne, Michigan, United States (Age 23 years)2. Silas Adams, b. Abt 1823, d. 8 Jul 1858, Topeka, Kansas Territory, United States (Age ~ 35 years)3. John W Adams, b. 1826, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F7 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 3 Almira Chambers, b. 28 Mar 1809, New York, New York, USA , d. 23 Apr 1851, Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States (Age 42 years) Married Aft 1834 Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States Children 1. Olive M Adams, b. 15 Feb 1835, Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States , d. 24 Apr 1915, Elma, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States (Age 80 years)2. Mary Elizabeth Adams, b. Abt 1837, Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States , d. Yes, date unknown3. Charles H Adams, b. Dec 1847, Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States , d. 8 Dec 1908, Jackson, Michigan, United States (Age ~ 60 years)Family ID F1 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 21 Jun 1794 - New Hampshire, USA 
Lived - 1820 - Malta, Morgan, Ohio, United States 
Married - 2 Jul 1820 - Morgan, Ohio, United States 
Lived - 1827 - Bucklin Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States 
Lived - 1830 - Wayne, Michigan, United States 
Married - Aft 1834 - Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States 
Lived - ),( - 1850 - Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan Died - 15 Feb 1859 - Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States 
Buried - - Newburgh Cemetery, Livonia, Michigan = Link to Google Earth
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Micah Adams - 1830 Census - Wayne, Michigan Territory
Name: Micah Adams
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Wayne, Michigan Territory
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8
Micah Adams - 1850 Census
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Micah Adams M 54 New Hampshire
Almira Adams F 41 New York
Julia E Adams F 17 Michigan
Olive M Adams F 15 Michigan
Mary E Adams F 13 Michigan
Charles H Adams M 3 Michigan
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Notes - Bio: History of Morgan County, Ohio, 1886; the Medica, Profession, page 22
Rep: Washington County Public Library
According to the book found in the Houston Clayton Library "Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Historical Collections and Researches" Annual Meeting 1889 minutes, pg 468-469
Dr. Micah Adams:
"Among my earliest recollections of persons, Dr Adams stands prominent. He was our family physician during my childhood and youth, and he was prominent as a neighbor, and a leading member of the Methodist church.
He came to us from Ohio, in 1826 and settled on the plains a little west of where the Schwarzburg schoolhouse afterward stood.
His first wife died in 1828. In 1830-31 he taught the first winter school in the Schwarzburg house, at twelve dollars per month and boarded himself.
About this time he built a log house on the east 1/2 of southeast 1/4 of section 4 and moved into it. He lived here but a short time, when he sold out, with his intention of going to Illinois. The day was set for his going, but something interfered and he abandoned his plan. My father offered him the use of 5 acres of land, without rent, so long as he should occupy it, on the northwest corner of his farm. He accepted and built a log house upon it. He lived here during the first year of cholera in Detroit, in 1832, and frequently went to Detroit on professional business during that season. His professional calls at Plymouth became so numerous that he removed his family to that place in 1833. His second wife, Julia, daughter of Rev. Judah Lewis, of Livonia, died in June, 1833. He subsequently married a Miss Chamber of Canton. She died late in the fifties. He died in 1859, age sixty-four and one half years.
Several years before he died he met with and accident to his hip joint which crippled him so badly that from that time he walked only by the aid of crutches. As a physician he maintained a creditable reputation. As a surgeon his skill was not remarkable. As a citizen he was intelligent and honorable. His moral integrity was unquestioned. He seceded from the Method E. Church in the great anti-slavery movement, in 1841, and united with the Wesleyan church and remained in their communion the rest of his days."
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- "Dr, Micah Adams, the first physician in Nankin Township."
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Westland Township Pioneer History
In 1826, the first land was bought in the northwest area of Westland Township by Globe D. Chubb. At this time, however, Westland, was known as "Nankin Township."
Chubb, and his brother, Jonathan Frisbee, came from New York State and settled on 88 acres of land in the northwest quarter of Section 7. As early as 1832, Chubb began to subdivide his property. The first 40 acres he sold to Abel Patchin. In 1836, he sold 8 acres to Robert Morris and in 1853 , 160 acres were sold to Stephen Hayward. This last purchase includes the area along Warren Road, where Chubb Cemetery still stands.
Chubb also became involved in his local township politics. He was elected the second Clerk of Nankin Township in 1832, and elected Supervisor in 1833 and 1838. Even later, in 1865, Chubb became the Township's first Highway Commissioner.
One of Chubb's greatest contributions, may have been his role as an agent of the underground railroad. He hid fugitive slaves in his home, which had come down the Rouge River from Ypsilanti, to his home, on thee River's edge.
One of the primary concerns of the early community was that of education. A majority of the adults in the community had recieved some type of formal education in the East, and most of the farmers were willing to donate small parcels of land for a school site.
The first class was taught by Paulina Fullerton, in a double log cabin house, near where Middlebelt crosses Ann Arbor Trail today. This was the temporary home of the school until the frame structure was finished being built. The location of the first frame structure was on the North side of Territorial Road, which connected Detroit to Ann Arbor, in the newly developed village of Schwarzburg.
Some names of the early settlers here that contributed physical labor and materials were , William Osband, who laid out and built the buildings frame, about 18 feet by 24 feet. Ebenezer Smith, and James Buckland were responsible for the finishing details on the inside of the structure. Norton Noble, mixed clay and lime to plaster the ceiling of the building, and Marcus Swift, donated the bricks to make the chimney.
Melvin Osband, was one of the first students at the school and wrote down in a journal that the "writing desks in the old school were made by fastening a boards in an inclined postition against the walls. The seats were made by driving legs into auger-holes in the corner side of soft wood slabs." These along with a chair, pail, cup, and a whip, were the complete furnishings for the school.
The first class conducted in the Schwarzburg School took place in 1828 and was taught by Miss Eunice Whitney. Children from a three mile radius walked or were driven or rode horses to attend school.
By 1829, the Township was divided into nine school districts, and a School Board was created. William Osband, Globe Chubb, and Leonard Harrison became the trustees of the school properties.
Another duo of brothers, Abraham and Isaac Perrin are also important figures in the establishment of "Nankin Township" (Westland). In 1832, they purchased the western half of the southwest quarter of Section 2 and the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 3. They immediately built a sawmill, located where today's Merriman Road crosses the Rouge River. The mill became so successful that other area businesses located to the area, and it was soon known as Perrinsville.
In 1833, Marcus Swift, who lived in Perrinsville, deeded a portion of his farm land for a new school. William Osband, Abraham Perrin and Thomas Dickerson assumed teh responsibilities of building and funded the new school. By 1835, the school was known as Perrinsville School. It was replaced in 1860 with a brick structure, which was built just across the road from the original school building. This school still stands on the corners of Warren Road and Cowan Road.
Elizabeth Swift, sister of Marcus Swift, taught the first two terms in the original school, from 1833 to 1835.
Many familes from New York and Pennsylvania settled in the vicinity of Perrinsville because it had many things to offer. There was a hotel, a blacksmith, wagon shop, chair factory, cabinet shop, post office, and school.
Some of the families that made Perrinsville their home were:
Thomas Dickerson ; John & Hiram Fisk ; Isaac Wilkerson ; James Kipp ; James Ferguson ; the Perrins ; the Swifts ; the Osbands ; Lawson VanAukin ; Archibald Brink ; the Straights ; Alexander Tait ; Alvah & Nelson Pate ; Ebenezer Bennett ; Benajah Holbrook ; William Brasington ; Gilbert Cooper ; and Dr, Micah Adams, the first physician in Nankin Township.
The Second Presbyterian Church of Nankin was alos organized to serve the citizens of Perrinsville. The Rev Joshua A. Clayton, of Plymouth Township, began preaching here in August 1841.
After the organization of Wayne in 1836, and the Michigan Central RailRoad, which came right through Wayne Township in 1838, Perrinsville soon drifted back into an agricultural area. It finally disappeared in 1921.
Abel Patchin, his wife, and son, Jared, who was only one year old, arrived in Nankin September 10, 1829, from Yates County, New York. He purchased all four corner parcels at Hix Road and Warren Road. He inturn donated a piece of his property to build the first Patchin School in 1834. It's location was at Newburg Road and Perrinsville Road in School District Number 3. It was a one room frame structure sealed with clay on the inside. Benchees were used instead of the inclinded ledge of the earlier school.
In 1852, a second school was erected just south of Perrinsville Road. This was a modern frame structure which included 3 windows. William Krueger, was a student at Patchin, who recalled that school began "sharply at 9 o'clock and was dismissed promptly at 4 o'clock." He and the other children attended school nine months of the year. He recalled three teachers, Charlie Handyside, Miss Purdy and Bertha Warner, as those teaching around the turn of the century.
The wooden structure was replaced in 1921, with a brick building, and a number of additions were made in 145, 1950 and 1953. The final section was added in 1965.
Samuel Pratt Cady, arrived in Nankin in 1836. His ancestral line is said to lead back to William the Conqueror, and Cady played a distinct role in the civic duties of his Township. At the age of 36 years, he came to Nankin with his wife and six sons. He purchased a plot of land, which would be located, now at Cherry Hill and Wayne Road. This area, became knowns as "Cady's Corners."
He was elected Constable in 1837, Township CLerk in 1840 and 1842, and hold the positions of Supervisor in 1841 and Treasurer in 1843 and 1847. He also served as Poor Director in 1850. Samuel was responsible for having built the first school house in this area between 1840 and 1850. It was a one-room log structure, which was replaced in 1867 by a frame structure.
The Cady family also boarded teachers for free in their home and hand made school text books. They were handwritten on heavey brown paper, and tied with white string.
Samuel Cady's, first son, Charles Howe Cady, was born in 1818. He followed in his fathers footsteps and later became Township Clerk in 1849, Supervisor in 1850 and 1853 and Township Clerk again in 1854.
David P. Cady, second son of Samuel Cady, served as Highway Commissioner for several terms.
Samuel Alonzo Cady, the fourth son, was elected School Inspector in 1857. He also taught at the two-room schoolhouse in Wayne Township in the 1860s. He served as Justic of the Peace, as well as Township Supervisor in 1872 and Superintendent of School in 1875. In 1892, he was elected as Village President of Wayne Township.
Charles Howe Cady, later married and had a son, he named Charles H. Cady, who was a farmer and teacher at both Patchin School and Cady School. He moved from his farm on Wayne Road in 1873, to the Village of Wayne. He was elected Village President in 1874. He later went into meat market shop with Stephen Smith, that was located on the corner of Monroe and Park Streets. He was elected Township Treasurer in 1876, Township Supervisor from 1879 to 1890 and Village Trustee from 1874 to 1890. He served as a Representative of the State Legislature from 1887 to 1888, where he served on the State Equalization Board. After he returned home, he acted as Street Commissioner in 1896 and Township Assessor in 1899, 1900, 1904 and 1905. He also served as Justice of the Peace.
Another school, which was built in 1882, was named for another early Nankin settler, James D. Norris.
Norris migrated from New York State in 1836, and later married Emily Patchen, the daughter of Abel Patchin.
The Norris School, was originally built on the west side of an 80 acre plot owned by Norris. Everyone in the area lended a hand in building this school structure.
When Nankin was divided into two townships, Nankin and Livonia, in 1835, Ammon Brown served as Nankin's Supervisor. Brown had migrated from Palmyra, New York in 1831. He settled in an area, that would today be Biddle and Park Streets in Wayne. Brown maintained Supervisor of Nankin for seven terms.
From 1832 until 1885 several tiny towns and hamlets sprung up and disappeared. None of them with a separate government, and consequently relied on the Township to take care of governmental functions that were necessary. The Village of Wayne is among the few "towns" to continue to expand and survive, along with Nankin Township (now Westland), Livonia Township, Garden City, Inkster, and Dearborn Heights Township.
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- Micah Adams, "Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958"
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Event Place: Morgan,Ohio
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51408-1
System Origin: Ohio-ODM
GS Film number: 0910657 V. A-C
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- 1820 United States Federal Census
Name: Micah Adams
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Malta, Morgan, Ohio
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
All Other Persons Except Indians not Taxed: 2
Free White Persons - Over 25: 1
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4
Source Citation: 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Malta, Morgan, Ohio; Page: 80; NARA Roll: M33_92; Image: 123.
**************** - The first 8 of Livonia Township Schools
"Dr. Micah Adams Winter 1830/31"
Michigan was a pioneer in developing a sound school system in the Mid-West, and as a result it passed many territorial acts dealing with school problems.
The Land Ordinance of 1785, set aside section 16, of every township, to be used by schools. This was problem number one since there was no tax levied for schools, and they were unable to sell or lease land out of section 16, who would pay to promote any education.
In a legislative address in 1826, Governor Lewis Cass asked the council to come up with a plan for the establishment of public schools. These to be supported in part by the public and administered by public officers, for the good of all children in the territory.
The council was unable to devise a new plan, and therefore adopted a modification of the Massachussetts district plan. The Act of the Establishment of Common Schools of 1827. This stated that every township with fity familes would "be provided with a good schoolmaster-of good morals, to teach children to read and write, and to instruct them in the English or French language, a well as in arithmetic, orthography, and decent behavior." The townships with fifty or more families were expected to maintain school for six months each year. If the students were scattered over the township's 36 square mile boundries, it was expected that the area would divid into districts. Failure to obey would bring a fine of up to $150 with the penalty money to be turned over to the county treasurer. Then, it could be given to the districts that met the law and were in need of financial assistance. By 1828, legislature passsed a petition in Congress given the township ability to manage Section 16, in a manner that might produce revenue for public education. It was that this time, the lands were sold or leased and the funds used to operate the public schools.
According to Melvin Osband, a pioneer in this area, he attended a school located at the northeast corner of what is now Wayne Road and Ann Arbor Trail, which was built in 1828. His father, William Osband built and raised the framing, Ebenezer Smith and James Bucklin finished woodwork inside, ceiling walls and windows, Marcus Swift built the chimney with reclaimed brick he obtained from Alanson Thomas of Dearborn. The plaster was completed by Norton Noble who after running out of mortar, mixed his own from area lime and clay.
Ball point pens, fountain pens or steel pens, were all items of the future, the writing tool from this day was usually a goose, turkey or turkey-buzzard quill. Lead pencils, although found in some ares in the East by the 1820's, had not reached Michigan when its first schools were opened. Textbooks varied, and ranged from Webster's Readers and Spellers to Bibles. The desks were boards nailed to the sides of the walls, while the seats were wood slabs with legs driven into holes on the underside.
At first, the firewood for winter classes was furnished by the parents according to the number of children attending the school, and those students whose parents who failed to contribute were seating furthest from the woodstove. Later the wood was purchased by the school board with the tax revenue money.
The Schwarzburg School, was first supported by private individuals such as Norton Noble, James Kipp, Silas Dean, Martin Frazier, and Ebenezer Smith. Later the taxes and individuals both contributed.
Schwarzburg's first school teachers were:
Miss Eunice Whitney Summer 1830
Dr. Micah Adams Winter 1830/31
Miss Jane Lewis Summer 1831
Mr Tillotson Munger WInter 1831/32
Miss Abby Goodspeed Summer 1832
John D. Corey Winter 1832/33
Miss Polly Noble Summer 1833
The school building itself was also used for church services, singing groups, and township meetings. The school continued to exsist into the 1860's.
School District #9 was originally (1831) part of Old Nankin, and held their first school board meeting on November 26, 1831, they would continue with their meetings until 1837, when a new primary school law was passed which promised more financial aid, and Newburgh became District #8, comprised of land Sections 29, 30, 31, 32, and the southern half of sections 19 & 20.
Under the 1837 school law, section 16 alnds were to be sold at public auction with a minimum price of $8 an acre. The first parcel sold was the northwest quarter of 160 acres to Abail Wood on September 5, 1837. In all, seven parcels were sold, the last one on September 25, 1841 to William Vickery. Another was sold to Washington Meeks, who was the first to make his payment on April 23, 1842.
Until it was torn town in 1964, the Briggs School was the oldest school building in Livonia, built in 1859 at the south-east corner of Six Mile Road and Newburgh. It had only one reoom with high ceilings and windows, with a bell perched in a cupola on the roof. Within its school yard, Briggs had one water pump, a red barn for the fire wood, and two bright red out-houses. It was used for a school until 1945, and eventually demolished in 1964. Five different schools have been built within the Briggs school district since it was organized in 1835. The first was a log cabin, located on the northwest corner of Five Mile and Newburgh. A second log cabin school was built on the northeast corner. A few years later, a frame house was built at teh southwest corner of Newburgh and Six Mile Roads. This school did not meet with the approval of some of the parents, and was replaced three quarters of a miles west, on the land of Luther Briggs, they named it Log Seminary. This school was in operation a few years, and by 1859 a brick built replaced the structure, and re-named back to Briggs School.
The Livonia school with the longest continuous history is the Newburgh School. It was erected as a log school in 1830. It was replaced in the 1860's with a frame building and four room brick building in 1922. It was later used as a social center and workshop for mentally and physically handicapped adults.
The Gaffney School located on Six Mile and Middlebelt Roads became the Wilcox School of modern day Livonia.
The Pierson School on Seven Mile Road near Farmington Road was first replaced in the 1930's with a brick stucture and later used as just an elementary level school until 1970.
The Tamarack or Livonia School was located in the center of the township. It also has been replaced three times, and was originally used as a school and town hall meeting center.
The Clarenceville School in Fractional District #5, Livonia-Farmington-Redford, has the most complicated history. Because of its location on boundaries that spilled over into three different townships. This was originally District #1, however it lost that identity when one of its borders crossed from Wayne County to Oakland County.
The Elm School was a result of a merger of the Chapman and the Bell Schools. The Chapman School of District #6 was located on the southeast corner of Plymouth and Middlebelt Roads, on land owned by A.L. Chapman. The Bell School stood opposite the courthouse on the wast side of Middlebelt Road, halfway between Schoolcraft and Five Mile Road on land owned by James W. Hendryx. On September 7, 1868, the voters of District #6, decided to set a school site south of the Howell Rail Road that could also contain a post office, a store, the rail road station, and a cheese factory. One acre of land was purchased for $50 and built a 26-foot frame structure similar to the Cooper School located south of District #6. With the opening of the successful subdivision, Rosedale Gardens, 10 lots were purchased in Section 34, from Sheldon Sons Company, and used as a new site for the school. The new school was completed in September 1927, but Byron E. Miller, architect, Michigan Contractor Building, advertisers, and John L. Beecher Company, contractor.
The first PTA was organized in the Newburgh School on December 1, 1922, almost one year after the first PTA was organized in Redford Township. By March 1924, Briggs and Elm followed with their own branches of this organization.
In 1944, all disticts of Livonia were considering consolidation, however due to the numerous arguements and problems, all of the district in Livonia, except the Clarenceville district, annexed. Districts such as Cooper, Westland and Nankin Mills ehter voted to become part of Livonia's district, or were eventually forced into it by the State of Michigan. This rapid growth in population made the School Board of Livonia, its second largest employer in the city.
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- Michigan, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1827-1870
Name: Mica Adams
State: MI
County: Wayne County
Township: Bucklin Township
Year: 1827
Page: NPN
Database: MI 1827 Territorial Census Index
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Michigan, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1827-1870 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Michigan Census, 1827-1870. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
Description:
This database contains indexes to the Michigan (U.S.A.) portions of the 1840-1870 U.S. Federal Censuses as well as indexes to the 1827 Territorial Census, 1837 Kalamazoo County, 1840 Pensioners Lists, 1845 State Census, and other early censuses. Information contained in these indexes can include name, state, county, township, year of record, and name of record set.
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- Michigan, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1827-1870
Name: Micah Adams
State: MI
County: Wayne County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1830
Page: 008
Database: MI Early Census Index
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Michigan, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1827-1870 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Michigan Census, 1827-1870. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
Description:
This database contains indexes to the Michigan (U.S.A.) portions of the 1840-1870 U.S. Federal Censuses as well as indexes to the 1827 Territorial Census, 1837 Kalamazoo County, 1840 Pensioners Lists, 1845 State Census, and other early censuses. Information contained in these indexes can include name, state, county, township, year of record, and name of record set
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Burial: Newburg Cemetery
Livonia, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Created by: k. mazor
Record added: Oct 28, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9722782
Inscription: aged 64 years, 7 months, 25 days
**************** - Obvious Connection between Micah and Ziba Adams
Ziba Adams b 2 Apr 1788 in Plainfield NH studied medicine from Micah at the same school - Micah studied medicine. Ziba married Hanna Pattee in Goffstown, Hillsborough, NH and moved on to Morgan County OH. Micah married his first wife in Morgan County, OH.
It is possible that they are brother or first cousins. I could not, however, locate the parents of either of them.
Here is more detail.
Micah and Ziba Adams can both be found in the U.S. High School Student Lists, 1821-1923 on Ancestry.com for the book The General Catalogue and a Brief History of Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, (Meriden P.O.) N.H.: also a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Daniel Kimball, its founder. 1815-1880.
Micah is listed on page 34 under Students 1816.
MICAH ADAMS; b. Plainfield, June 8, 1795. K.U.A.'15-16. Studied med. with Dr. Elias Frost, Meriden. Phys., Meriden, one year; Sandusky, O.; Plymouth, Mich., where he d. "about 1858." m. Matilda Durkee, Hanover.
Azariah Adams and Ziba Adams are both listed under 1819 - page 41.
ZIBA ADAMS; b. Plainfield, April 2, 1798. K.U.A. '15-'19. Studied med. with Dr. Elias Frost, Meriden, and Dr. Micah Adams, Sandusky, O. Phys., in Ohio; Goffstown, '38 -- till he d. Sept. 27, 1841. m. Hannah Pattee, Goffstown, July 18, 1828.
Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, NH - Incorporated June 16, 1813. Academy Building Dedicated January 9, 1815. Instruction Commenced January 10, 1815. Academy Building burned Autumn 1824. New Building, Present Wing, Dedicated 1825. Main Building Erected 1839-40.
Trustees: 1812 - Prof. Ebenezer Adams, A.M. Hanover, Retired 1841. He was president of the board in 1824 and treasurer in 1813.
Beneficiaries (students in Dartmouth college, though neer students at Meriden, received aid in preparing for the ministry from the fun of Kimball Union Academy.
SOLOMON ADAMS; b. Middleton MS, March 30 1797...
Students:
1816 - Micah Adams
1816 - Weston Bela Adams; b. Plainfield, Nov 10 1794, died Maryland
1818 - Eunice C____ Adams, Plainfield
1818 - Rowena Adams, Plainfield
1819 - Azariah Adams, b. Plainfield
1819 - Ziba Adams, b. Plainfield, April 2, 1798
1828 - Daniel Lucius Adams, A.M., M.D, b. Mont Vernon
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Less obvious connection -
Micaiah Adams born 11 Feb 1728. There was some speculation that Micajah and Elizabeth (see myfamilyonline.com for this family) could be grandparents to Micah - they are from Plainfield Connecticut not New Hampshire. The Academy does not specify the state of people born in Plainfield but can be assumed NH since the school is in Plainfield NH. It is always possible though that the family moved from Connecticut.
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- RESEARCH
The Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire town notes from 1761-1800 do not appear to have Adams mentioned. Births and marriages are recorded throughout the notes.
DO: Index of vital records (loose sheet file), 1765-1937 -- NOTE: Also give some information of births and marriages. Film 2229159
DO: Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Deeds and General Index 1827-1850 Film 16346 & 7
DO: Plainfield Genealogies publication
New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973, Sullivan, Probate record index 1827-1874 has a Rowena and Thophilus B. Adams (Image #7) Daniel and Susan Adams (Image #8).
Will of Rowena Adams of Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, 26 January 1828, a single woman, infirm health. To mother, Sarah Adams, $50. To sister, Lois Adams, personal property. To brothers, W. B. and Aramiah Adams. $400 to American Home Missionary Society. Witnessed by Robert, Fanny and Betsey Kimball.
Reverend Theophilus B. Adams died 1831 in Acworth (33 miles from Plainfield. Born in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1789 to Benjamin and Judith Adams. He married Jemima Knowlton abt. 1806 and Lydia Bagley in 1819.
Daniel Adams of Charlestown in Sullivan County, probated 18 March 1846, leaving children.
NEHGS - Plainfield, Sullivan County, NH - Records of Eliphalet Adams and Sally Weston married 1787. Sophia born 1788, Rowina 1790, Lois 1793, Sophia 1793, Bela 1794, Almire 1797, Azariah 1798, Erastus 1799, Weston 1805. Olive Adams marries John Glassier in 1797. Joseph Adams born 22 Feb 1790 to Jonathan and Hannah Adams. Loisa Adams married Benjamin F Dow in 1829.
Town Clerk Records vol 2
Eliphalet Adams chosen as "Tithing men" pg 139
Eliphalet Adams and Sally Weston married 29 November 1787 v II pg 57, children on pg 58
John Glassier (Glazier) from Lebanon (11 miles north) married Olive Adams from Plainfield 16 Nov 1797 by Daniel Kimball, Justice of the Peace of Plainfield.
The General Catalogue and History of Kimball Union Academy states Ira Young married Eliza Adams from Hanover, NH 23 August 1833 (pg. 53). This tree on Ancestry http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13693009/person/18690054018?ssrc= has Eliza Minot Adams born in 1810 and daughter of Ebenezer Adams (possibly the daughter of Professor Ebenezer Adams who retired in 1841). Ebenezer died in 1841. Also see tree http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12646002/person/13947176578?ssrc= with Eliza as daughter of Ebenezer.
Two sons of Micaiah do not have record of children in the historical record. However:
Simeon Adams in the 1820 census has 1 boy 10-15 yrs old and 2 boys 16-26 yrs old.
Lemuel Adams has a boy between 10-15 yrs old, 1 boy 16-18 yrs old, one 16-26 yrs old and 3 girls.
In 1820 Micah would be 26 years old.
A Lemuel Adams shows up in the 1850 census born in Massachusetts about 1769 living in Haverhill, 44 miles north of Plainville (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=lemuel&gsln=adams&msbdy=1764&msrpn__ftp=New+Hampshire%2c+USA&msrpn=32&msrpn_PInfo=5-|0|1652393|0|2|3242|32|0|0|0|0|&uidh=m71&_83004003-n_xcl=f&pcat=35&h=10886278&db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1)
Simeon Adams shows up on the 1850 census still living in Plainville at age 87 living with Dolly Adams (from Connecticut) and Mary Adams (New Hampshire). Simeon's birthplace is Connecticut (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=11086880).
A Simeon Adams is born in Groton, CT, 17 miles downriver from Groton (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=CTvitalsBarbour&h=67184&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=8054).
Name: Simeon Adams
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Plainfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1 (Boy)
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2 (2 Boys)
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1 (Abbey?)
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 (Mary?)
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 2
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 7
Name: Lemuel Adams
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Plainfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 (Lemuel and Caleb)
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 (Boy)
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 (Jane and Emily)
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 (Girl)
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 4
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 8
Martha Miranda b. 14 June 1816
- Bio: History of Morgan County, Ohio, 1886; the Medica, Profession, page 22