Some Descendants of Edward Adams (Henry)

  1. John Adams was born on 18 Feb 1657/8 in Medfield. [HUD] He died on 1 Mar 1751 in Medway. [HUD] He married first Deborah Partridge on 4 Apr 1682 in Medfield. [HUD] Deborah was the daughter of John and Magdalen (Bullard) Partridge. [HUD] She was born on 16 Aug 1662 in Medfield. [HUD] She died by 1695. [HUD] John married second Susanna Breck. [HUD] Susanna was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hill) Breck. [HUD] She was born on 10 May 1667 in Sherborn. [HUD] She died on 28 May 1744 in Medway. [HUD]
    1. Daniel Adams was born on 12 Jan 1686 in Medfield. [HUD] He died on 12 Sep 1772 in Medway. [HUD] He married Sarah Sanford. [HUD] Sarah was the daughter of Thomas and Christian Sanford. [HUD] She died on 7 Nov 1772, age 78, in Medway. [HUD]
      1. Abigail Adams was born on 23 Jun 1736 in Medway. [HUD] She died on 27 May 1810 in Medway. [HUD] She married Abraham Harding after 9 Feb 1757 (int.). [HUD] Abraham was the son of Abraham and Ruth (Wight) Harding. [HUD] He was born on 7 Dec 1730 in Medway. [HUD] He died on 2 Mar 1819 in Medway. [HUD]
        Abraham was "undoubtedly" a descendant of Abraham Harding of Boston, Dedham and Braintree. This Abraham was a younger son of John Harding of Boreham, Essex, England and his wife Mary. [HUD]
        Abraham was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. [HUD]
        1. Seth Harding was born on 8 Jan 1782 in Medway. [HUD] He drowned on 28 Jan 1825 in Medway. [HUD] He married Mary Learned after 9 Nov 1805 (int.). [HUD]
          1. Edward Learned Harding was born on 6 May 1822 in Medway. [HUD] He died in 1885. [HUD] He married Lucy Booker Ramsey. [HUD] Lucy was the daughter of Theodore Nixon and Elizabeth (Deal) Ramsey. [HUD] She was born in 1839 in North Carolina. [HUD] She died in 1906 in Paris. [HUD]
            • Mary Virginia Ramsey Harding was born on 1 Jul 1871. [HUD] She married first as his second wife John Henry Steuart. [HUD] Henry was born on 4 Jan 1831. [HUD] He was baptised on 3 Jul 1831 in Baltimore. [HUD] He died on 14 Mar 1892 in the Hotel Binda in Paris. [HUD]
              • Glaldys Virginia Steuart was born on 18 Jul 1891 in New York, New York. [HUD] She died on 19 Nov 1947 in Aix-en-Provence, France. [HUD] She married first Julius, Count Apponyi de Nagy-Appony on 29 Jul 1914 in Geneva, Switzerland. [HUD]
                • Geraldine, Countess Apponyi de Nagy-Appony was born on 6 Aug 1915 in Budapest. [HUD] She married Zog I, King of Albania on 27 Apr 1938 in Tirana, Albania. [HUD]
                  • Leka I, King (Claimant) of Albania was born on 5 Apr 1939 in Albania. [HUD]

References

HUD Reitwiesner, William Adams, "A Hitherto Unnoted Descendant of Henry Adams of Braintree: Leka I, King (Claimant) of Albania," The American Genealogist 53, 1977, 18-20.