Adams

This Adams line goes back to County Antrim, Ireland, during the 18th century. The Adams family was allied with the Bones line by a 1766 marriage in Ireland, creating many Adams-Bones cousins, including John Strong Adams and John Bones’ mother, Mary (Adams) Bones. John Strong’s father was a doctor and merchant in Randalstown, Mary’s father was a linen producer credited with creating the first micro-industry in the county, and their uncles were farmers and merchants. Other family names allied with these Adamses in County Antrim include Brown, Stavely, Boreland, and possibly Strong.