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- Came to Plymouth, Braintree, Massachusetts in 1638. Malster (fermented grain for beer) Yeoman (freeman-land holder) Town Clerk, Lieutenant. Went to Italian School in Barton (manor house) St. David (Church built to honor Welsh Saint David Somersetshire, England. He received a good education.
Braved the perils of the vast and furious ocean. Took flight from the dragon of persecution in Somersetshire, England. (John Adams, 2nd Presidentof United States).
This period of Reformation, Henry VIII dissolution of Roman religious establishment, expulsion of Abbots, Friars, Nuns, Abbeys, Priories and Convents of the Realm.
Abjured Popery and adopted religion protesting its independence of and separation from Roman supremacy. Taxes were sent through church to Rome.
John and Henry Adams, at age 8, walked 6 miles to Glastonburg to watch Richard Whiting, last of Glastonburg abbot was drawn on a hurdle up Glastonburg Tor (hill) where he was hanged, beheaded, and quartered for refusing to deliver the conventional plate and gold, jewels.
Henry Adams became Principal officer of the peace, Bondsman at little Parish Church, new prayer book approved by Edward VI. Then saw "Bloody Mary" and her Spanish Consort try to revert back to Roman Catholicism. Rev. John White Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, County, moderate reforming clergy in the great religious controversies which preceded the Civil War (30 years) in England. He advocated as early as1622 the colonization of New England for spiritual and material reasons, believing that it could be a heaven, as well as for non-conformists as well as for loyal Churchmen Puritans.
Aquila Purchase Master of Trinity School Dorchester, England (1625-1633)m. Anne Squire (sister of Edith Swuire) Jan 28, 1614 brother of Thomas Purchase of New Brunswick, Maine 1626, March 1632 Aquila Purchase with wife and children emigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts. He died either during the voyage or soon after arrival. August 5, 1633 Widow Purchase was granted 4 acres of land. Anne Squirre m 2nd Thomas Oliver 1637 of Boston, Massachusetts. The immigration may have been influenced Henry and Edith.
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