News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

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    Sylvanus Adams

    Male 1759 - Aft 1791  (> 33 years)


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    • Name Sylvanus Adams  [1, 2, 3
      Born 22 Jan 1759  Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
      Gender Male 
      Died Aft 1791 
      Notes 
      • [riverrat1981.ged]

        REF:*John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA & Descendants- Tim. Hopkins- 1932- p 83
        **History of Waterbury - Jos. Anderson - Vol I,p 443
        +CT Men In The Revolution, pg 117
        ++(Ibid, p 501) +++ (Ibid, p 231)
        Bronson's Waterbury, p 458 - (marriage/parent info)
        Waterbury Vital Records
        Chart, courtesy of Joyce Steeby, Box 385, Schoolcraft, MI 49087
        From CD #120
        "There is a Sylvanus Adams listed as a private in Captain David Smith's company of Continental Troops. ["At Burnetsfield (German Flats)."] He enlisted 20 April 1776. No other info".
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        page 83 of the "John Hopkins of Cambridge" book -

        Sarah Hopkins, b. 5 June 1760 m. 4 December 1783, Sylvanus Adams b. 22 January 1759, son of William Adams, b. 1714 and Susanna Bronson b. 29 April 1718. They removed to Henderson, New York, where he owned and dealt in land. A soldier of the Revolution, Private, Capt. David Smith's Company, Col. Samuel Elmore's Regiment, 20 April 1776; also Capt. Samuel Camp's company, Col. No adiah Hooker's Regiment, 1 April 1777; also Captain Smith's Company, Eighth Regiment, Continental Line, Col. John Chandler; enlisted 1 September 1777 for three years. He was among the Waterbury men wintering at Valley Forge in 1778.

        Children:
        William (or Mark?) Adams, b. 16 September 1784
        Chloe Adams, b. 4 February 1786, m. Manly Hitchcock
        Mark Adams, b. 18 October 1787; m. Mercy Brown, d. 6 March 1863
        Timothy Hopkins Adams b. 29 September 1789
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        Valley Forge Muster Roll, Revolutionary War. Family Tree Legends Records Collection (Online Database). Pearl Street Software, 2004.
        ADAMS, SYLVANUS ID: CT16355 State: CT Rank: PRIVATE Regiment: 8 CT
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        Private from Connecticut in American Revolutionary War
      Person ID I6546  Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree
      Last Modified 8 Aug 2010 

      Father William Adams,   b. 06 Sep 1714, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1793, Waterbury, Connecticut U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
      Mother Susanna Bronson,   b. 29 Apr 1718, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1812, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years) 
      Married 14 Feb 1738/39  Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Family ID F2375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Sarah Hopkins,   b. 05 Jun 1760, Great Barrington, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married 04 Dec 1783  Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
      Children 
       1. William Adams,   b. 16 Sep 1784, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
      +2. Chloe Adams,   b. 04 Feb 1785, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1873, Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
       3. Mark Adams,   b. 18 Oct 1787, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 06 Mar 1862  (Age 74 years)
       4. Timothy Hopkins Adams,   b. 29 Sep 1789, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
      Last Modified 4 Feb 2010 
      Family ID F2370  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. [S65960] Pat Miller.
        Date of Import: 21 Oct 2005

      2. [S04621] Chart by Colleen Powers Mahon.

      3. [S46291] John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA & Descendants, Timothy Hopkins, (1932), page 83.