I'm going through the Kingston, MA VR's to check for birth, marriages and deaths and have a bit of a stallout on which Francis Adams married Mercy/Marcy Adams/Adames. On my first pass through these VRs I had Francis, b. Nov. 10, 1750 married to Mercy Adams 30 Nov. 1784. On my second pass through these VRs I then came across the marriage record for Marcy Adames marrying a Francies Adames on the same date with the entry above being the reverse. For the 1750 Francis I have no parents because the VRs don't indicate, just says he was the husband of Mercy Adams and also gives his name as Francis Jr. On the second pass I found a Francies Adams, s. of Francis and Rebeckah (Cooke), born Dec. 14, 1769. Obviously we're talking two different Francis' because of the spread of the birth dates. but there is only two marriage records and one of them is for Francis and Rebeckah (Cooke) Adams; therefore, we're left with only the entries under Adames for both Francies/Francis and Marcy Adames. Does anyone know if Marcy/Mercy Adams, who was born 7 July 1753 married the Francis born 1750 or the Francies born 1764? I suspect it is probably the 1750 one given the fact that if she did marry the one born 1764 that she was a whole lot older than he was given the time period. She was the daughter of John Adams and Thankful Washburn. A Billington descendant. I checked the Billington silver and Mercy is a 6th generation with no indication of any marriage. Darn!! I checked the Cooke silver and unfortunately the Francies born 1769 is 6th generation and it doesn't cite marriage either! Darn!!! The silver also changes the spelling of Francies to Francis. The 1750 Francis Adams is not mentioned in the Cooke silver, so he is not, as far as I can tell, a descendant of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, but the 1769 one is. Christie Trapp