1Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the . . ., Vol. 1, p. 183 (1908).
"(II) Captain Samuel, third son of Henry Adams, was born in England in 1617. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. After residing in Charlestown for a time he went to Concord, and in 1653-54 penetrated the wilderness to what is now Chelmsford, where he was granted a large tract of land in 1656 with the exclusive privilege of erecting and operating a saw-mill, provided he would sell boards at three shilling per hundred feet. He was also granted the exclusibe right to operate a grist-mill. He was commissioner of the court in 1667. His death occurred in Chelmsford, January 24, 1688-89. His first wife, who was before marriiage Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Graves, died October 8, 1662 or 64, and on May 7, 1688, he married Esther Sparhawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk of cambridge. She survived him many years and died at an advanced age November 4, 1745. The children of the first union were: Samuel (died Young), Rebecca, Thomas and Catherine, twins, (the latter died young), Martha and another Nathaniel. Those of his second wife were: Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin and Esther.".