This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CI.2ADEB/9344.1 Message Board Post: Miriam, you could start by looking up his descent and see if it comes anywhere near your family line. There are many, many Adams lines in the US, and most don't descend from this one family. My husband's line actually does have a relationship, through the Boylston family. His grandmother, Annie Hall, is descended from the Boylston line that originally came from London, England. The Boylstons are related to President John Adams by the marriage of John Quincy Adams to Susanna Boylston. Both Presidents Adams are her second and third cousins, respectively, generations removed of course. Other lines that mixed with these are Caswell, Bartlett, Brooks, Currence, Sill and Averill, all ancestors to my husband's family. There is a web site for the New England Historical Society, and it has a great deal of information on these families.