Mr John Adams

c.1643 - 1690

• Name	John Adams
  Title	Mr
  Birth	c.1643
  Gender	Male
  Education	1653	Shrewsbury School
  Occupation	20 Apr 1672	Inner Temple, London
  	Admission
  Occupation	28 Nov 1680	Inner Temple, London
  	Called to the Bar
  Event	4 Sep 1682	Preston, Lancashire
  	Admitted (in person) as foreign burgess
  Event	26 Apr 1687	Inner Temple, London   [1]
  	Petitioned for his duties to be remitted.
  Event	13 Jun 1687	Inner Temple, London   [2]
  	Chambers at Inner Temple to be viewed (suggesting that he had given them up).
  Event	26 Jun 1688
  	Last letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, in which Adams mentioned having suffered a severe fever on 8 June, but said that 'if I live I resolve ... to do the utmost that lyes in my power for the satisfaction of yor Lordship and the rest of my Encouragers'. [https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/214087]
  Event	2 Nov 1694
  	'Mr Adams' papers (wch I believ may be retrieved) would improve many of ye Maps' - lends weight to the idea that Adams was dead before this date. William Gilpin to Sir John Lowther [DLONS/W/2/1/37]
  Death	1690	Ireland
  	Recorded in Gregory King's notebook as published in "Staffordshire Pedigrees, 1664-1700". [https://archive.org/details/StaffordshirePedigreesBasedOnTheVisitationOfThatCountyMadeByWilliam/page/n269/mode/2up]
  Person ID	I1	John Adams
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	William Adams   d. Nov 1676
  Mother	Ann,   b. c.1617   d. aft.1667
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Wrottesley   d. bef.15 Aug 1684
  Marriage	c.1665
  Children	1. Wrottesley Adams,   c. 18 Oct 1666, Ludlow, Shropshire d. c.1685, ? Lancaster, Lancashire   2. Thomas Adams,   c. 16 Oct 1669, St Chad's, Shrewsbury d. bef.15 Aug 1684 (Age ~ 14 years)   3. Mary Adams,   c. 4 Apr 1671, St Chad's, Shrewsbury d. bef.15 Aug 1684 (Age ~ 13 years)   4. William Adams,   c. 6 Aug 1672, St Chad's, Shrewsbury bur. 1 Aug 1714, Staunton on Wye, Herefordshire (Age ~ 41 years)   5. John Adams,   c. 17 Mar 1673/4, St Chad's, Shrewsbury d. aft.15 Aug 1684   6. Susanna Adams   d. aft.15 Aug 1684
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] Calendar of Inner Temple Records, 243. https://issuu.com/theinnertemple/docs/calendar_of_inner_temple_records_vo_7e74b2c02cae8a/342 [S1] Calendar of Inner Temple Records, 244. https://issuu.com/theinnertemple/docs/calendar_of_inner_temple_records_vo_7e74b2c02cae8a/344