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SETH ADAMS

 

A PIONEER OHIO SHEPHERD

 

By Charles Sumner Plumb

Among the pioneers of the Northwest Territory,

along the Ohio border on the east, were many men of

sterling worth and rather unusual administrative ability.

Notably among these men in Ohio history, was Seth

Adams.

The following pages will briefly discuss his ancestry,

review his movements as a citizen and pioneer, and set

forth his relationship to early day American sheep hus-

bandry.

The Adams genealogy herewith was furnished by

a grandson of Seth, Mr. Washington Adams of Zanes-

ville, who is now (1933) 83 years of age, in good health,

with clear mental faculties.

 

THE ADAMS FAMILY GENEALOGY

HENRY ADAMS of Braintree, Massachusetts, came to

America in 1634 from England, and died in 1646. He

was seven generations removed from Seth. Henry had

a family of eight children.

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