Adams, John (7)
Adams, John
was the only son of Hon. John Adams, of Nova Scotia, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1721. He was pastor at Newport, but dismissed, 1730. He died at Cambridge in 1740. He was distinguished for his genius and piety, and is said to have been master of nine languages. A small volume of his poems was published at Boston in 1745. Alien, Amer. Biog.; Sprague, Annals, 1, 350.
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Adams, John (2)
a Congregational minister, was the son of Matthew Adams, whose literary tastes, although he was a mechanic, led him to collect a fine library, for the use of which Dr. Franklin acknowledges his obligations. His son John was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1745; For thirty years (1748- 78) he was minister of Durham, N. H. From Durham’ he removed to Newfield, York Co., Me., where he preached and practiced medicine till his death, June 4, 1792. He is said to have been subject at times to great depression of spirits, and at other times was unduly excited. When in this latter state he was unusually-animated in his preaching, See Alien, American Biog. Dict. s.v. (J. C. S.)
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Adams, John (4)
a Bible Christian minister, was born in the parish of Kirkhampton, Cornwall, England, in 1784.. He was converted when young, entered the itinerancy in 1825, and was superannuated in 1848. He died May 7,1863.
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Adams, John (5)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Ireland, March 7, 1785. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and studied theology privately. He emigrated to the United States in 1832, joined the Associate Presbyterian Church, and was appointed to preach at Guinston, York Co., Pa. He died Jan. 14, 1862. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1863, p. 355.
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Adams, John (6)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Linton, Cambridgeshire, in 1787. Here he was surrounded by good religious influences from his infancy. He was educated at Wymondley College, near Hitchin; was ordained at Market-Deeping, June 17, 1813; and soon afterwards went to Redhill, near Royston, where he labored until 1864. He died Jan. 14, 1866. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1867, p. 267.
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Adams, John (7)
a Congregational minister, was born at Salem, Mass., Nov. 30, 1813. He graduated at Middlebury College in 1837; entered the Andover Theological Seminary, but did not remain long; preached in Warren, Vt., six months; was acting pastor at Cambridge, Mass., in 1839, and at Essex in 1840; was ordained July 21,1841, at Underhill North, Vt.; dismissed in October, 1843; installed at Sharon June 26,1844; dismissed May 1, 1857. He was acting pastor at Hanover Centre, N. H., from 1857 to 1861; and at Hillsborough Centre from that time until his death, May 19, 1879. See Statistics of Cong. Ministers, 1879.