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/1AC.2ACI/1749.1 Message Board Post: Clues might be found in the history of Cabot, The History of Washington County by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882, reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Pages 94 through 97 include the ADAMS surname. The Rev. B.S. ADAMS was supply pastor to the Congregational Church. Eliphalet Adams was elected a deacon of the church about 1808. Deacon Adams died in the winter of 1826, age 45 years.