Soldier of the Revolutionary War for Connecticut
He died 8 May 1823 AE 91 years

His epitaph reads..
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is Peace"

and I can see this is going to take me quite a while...life gets in the way!!


SOURCES
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name Elisha Adams
Gender Male
Birth Date 5 Jul 1733
Birth Place Canterbury
Parent David
Parent Dorcas


Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908
Name Elisha Adams
Birth Date 1732
Death Date 18 May 1823
Death Place Vermont, USA
Death Age 91
Subject: Stephen Hopkins Connection - I responded June 18 2014 that I had no information to help him, as I do not have a direct connection to this line.




Hello, My name is Stan Booker. I notice that you trace back to Stephen Hopkins. I am wondering if you have ever been able to establish the Elisha Adams/Sarah Taylor marriage. I am trying to trace back to the Mayflower, and the Mayflower Society says this connection is not established. I don't really know how to get there from here, but here is the text of the email that I received:

Thank you for your interest in the Mayflower Society. We have received your Preliminary Review Form and have attempted to determine the best previously approved lineage paper in our files that follows your stated lineage. Upon checking our files, we find that we have no previously approved lineage papers that follow your proposed lineage from Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins beyond the point of the marriage, in the 5th generation, of Dorcas Paine and David Adams.

Please note that your proposed line is followed through the marriage of Elisha Adams and Sarah Taylor in our Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins book, covering the accepted descendants of this Mayflower passenger. For most Mayflower lines, all documentation needed for Mayflower Society membership through generation 5, and also the generation 6 birth (and in some cases further), is today included in the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations books. So, in this case, all documentation needed through the generation 6 marriage is found in the Hopkins volume. Note that as previous editions of Mayflower Families... Vol. 6 did not support that it was this Elisha Adams who married Sarah Taylor, some caution is advised and independent confirmation that the husband of Sarah Taylor was indeed the son of Dorcas Paine and David Adams is recommended.

Note/Caution: In 1998 an application intending to establish a line from Stephen Hopkins through the marriage of Elisha Adams and Sarah Taylor was submitted. This application was not approved because the then current edition of MF 6 did not support that it was this Elisha Adams who married Sarah Adams. The 1998 application was assigned Reject #1409. I mention this because it reinforces my point above that independent verification of the generation 6 marriage as discussed above may be helpful in insuring that a new application on this line will be approved.

The fact that we have no previously approved lineage papers that follow your line any further means that you will need to prove everything beyond what is covered by the Mayflower Families books through to the present day. We realize that this may seem to be a daunting task; but hopefully it will be a rewarding journey for you and your family.

Usually, the best place to begin working back in order to link into an accepted lineage is with your immediate family. Full documentation, including all applicable birth, marriage and death certificates, for the most recent three generations should be assembled. When moving back beyond grandparents, documentation can be provided in the form of birth, marriage and death certificates, wills and other probate records, land records which state relationships, or, in the absence of these, published sources such as vital records of towns, town histories, published genealogies etc. Census records may also provide good corroborative evidence. There are a number of other types of records that can be used to prove descent from one generation to the next, but this is the challenge of proving a Mayflower lineage: finding these. Hopefully you already know some of this and perhaps your family has some of these documents. Once you have compiled complete documentation on your great-grandparents, clearly linking them to their parents, you will need to continue to connect each generation to the one before until you are able to tie in to the Mayflower Families book mentioned above.

So, it will be your job to be the first to prove a Mayflower lineage from the point described above by following each step of the line back to where you are able to tie in to the Mayflower Families books, thereby opening a new Mayflower lineage. I wish we could be of greater assistance but as we have no previously approved lineage papers that follow your proposed line beyond what is covered by the Mayflower Families books, we have no documentation in our files to be of any help in assisting you with such proof.


Best Regards

Todd Holden
Research Assistant, GSMD

So any help you can give me would be appreciatted.

Thanks,

Stan Booker
[email protected]