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44 INTRODUCTION

2. Samuel, born October i6, 1751 ; Harvard College, 1770; M.D. ; surgeon in Continental Army; died without issue, January 17, 1788.

3. Joseph, born June 23, 1753, died June 24, 1753.

4. Mary, born June 23, 1754, died October 3, 1754.

5. Hannah, born January 21, 1756, died May 28, 1821.

��Hannah Adams, youngest child and sole surviving de- scendant of Samuel Adams at the time of his death, mar- ried, June 25, 1 78 1, Thomas Wells, son of Francis and Susannah (Welch) Wells. He was born in Boston, May 23, 1754, and died .

Their issue (all were born in Boston, and all died there except S. A. W., who died in Dorchester) : —

1. Elizabeth, born May 25, 1783, died January 29, 1868.

2. Susannah, born April 10, 1785, died Aug. 19, 1786.

3. Samuel Adams, born March i, 1787, died Aug. 12, 1840.

4. Susannah, born November 7, 1788, died June 26, 1789.

5. Thomas, born March 27, 1791, died March 11, 1861.

6. James, born June 28, 1792, died July 4, 1793.

��Elizabeth Wells, who was the oldest child of Hannah (Adams) Wells, and who was born May 25, 1783, and died Jan. 29, 1868, married, March 12, 1809, John Randall, M.D., son of Silas and Elizabeth (Witt) Randall, who was bom at Stow, December 20, 1774, and died at Boston, December 27, 1843. The list of their children has been

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