Some Adams families of the Upper Connecticut River Valley of New England

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  • ID: I536
  • Name: Submit Purchase
  • Given Name: Submit
  • Surname: Purchase
  • _MARNM: Adams
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: ABT 1723/1736 1
  • Death: Nov 13 1797 or Nov 18 1790 1
  • Burial: Adams-Babcock Cem,Waterford,Vt 2
  • Note:
    "Submit Marvin" [HStJ]
    "Submit Purchase" [BTP]

    DEATH:
    When I first saw her gravestone in 1976, it could be easily read, although I wrote no notes.
    When Eugena Powers transcribed it sometime in the 1970s, she wrote down, "Mrs. Submit Adams / who Departed this / Life November 13th / AD 1797 Age 61" => b.ab. 1736.
    However, Edward T Fairbanks wrote in his 1914 "History" [HStJ], "Mrs. Submit Adams died Nov. 18, A.D. 1790, aged 67, as we read on her grave stone" => 1723.
    As the original slate stone no longer exists, it cannot be re-verified - the original was shattered in August of 1982 when a huge branch from a dead elm tree fell directly on it. A replica replacement was made by authority of the Town of Waterford and dedicated at the Concord, Vt Old Home Day Celebration July 29, 1984 [per booklet published for the event]; the replacement stone matches Eugena's transcript, but I do not know if the replacement copied her transcript or the shattered stone itself.

    BURIAL:
    Submit and James were the first settlers in St Johnsbury, but moved just over the town line into Waterford by 1791; hers is the oldest known burial of a woman; and (in 1976, when I first saw the stone) the oldest gravestone in town.
    The original stone was reportedly slate with a bulge top and the new fine grain black stone copies this pattern; it is retangular with incised lines on it and a double circle with a face - eyes connected to the nose, and an oval mouth; 2-1/2 feet tall.
    This cemetery is in the woods, next to a pasture, in what was once an orchard. The ground is covered with ground-myrtle with very little grass. It is on the Lot drawn by James Adams as part of his proprietor's Right which became son, Charles Adams' farm.
    It has been called variously, Adams Cem, Babcock Cem, The Settlers' Cem, and when its overgrown condition was "put right" in the Bi-centennial year, Helen Knight dubbed it "the Myrtle Cemetery", a name which has stuck with us locals, although the sign by the road reads, "Adams-Babcock Cemetery".
    3 4
  • Change Date: 13 SEP 2009 at 18:08:10
  • OBJE:
  • FILE: click to View Sketch of Replacement Gravestone
  • Title: online sketch of replacement gs
  • _SCBK: Y
  • _PRIM: Y
  • _TYPE: PHOTO



    Marriage 1 James Adams b: 1735g
      Children
      1. Has Children Martin Adams b: 5 FEB 1764 in Stillwater,NY
      2. Has No Children Jonathan Adams b: 1765g
      3. Has No Children Clarissa Adams b: ABT 1769
      4. Has No Children James Calendar Adams b: 1770g
      5. Has Children Charles Adams b: 13 MAR 1773 in rec'd Waterford,Vt

      Sources:
      1. Title: gs
        Publication: visited, verified, usually sketched, and often photographed as well
        Abbrev: gs
      2. Title: gs
        Publication: visited, verified, usually sketched, and often photographed as well
        Abbrev: gs
        Page: sketched
        Note: Replica: "Mrs. Submit Adams / Who Departed this / Life November 13'th / AD 1797 Age 61" => b.ab. 1736. However, in his 1914 "History" [HStJ], Edward T Fairbanks wrote, "Mrs. Submit Adams died Nov. 18, A.D. 1790, aged 67, as we read on her grave stone" => b.ab. 1723.
      3. Title: [BTP]"I See By the Paper..."
        Publication: An Informal History of St Johnsbury, Claire Dunne Johnson; St Johnsbury, Vt: Cowles Press, 1987
        Abbrev: [BTP]"I See By the Paper..."
        Page: pp.10-12
        Note: Source of maiden name.
      4. Title: [HStJ]St Johnsbury town history, 1914
        Abbrev: [HStJ]St Johnsbury town history, 1914
        Note:
        The Town of St Johnsbury Vt, A Review of 125 Years to the Anniversary Pagent 1912, Edward T. Fairbanks; St Johnsbury, Vt.: Cowles Press, 1914
        Page: pp.35-38

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