Adams, Samuel

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams_(Loyalist)
  • Wiki profile notes:
    • Dr. Samuel Adams (1730 – January, 1810) was a physician, surgeon, farmer, land owner, and loyalist soldier, from Arlington, Vermont.
    • Samuel Adams was born in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, British North America, British Empire, now Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, in 1730.
    • In 1774, Adams came into conflict with Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys for dissenting with their land title policy. After a brief trial, Adams’ captors had him tied to a chair and hung from the sign post, of the Catamount Tavern, as a public humiliation.
    • In 1776, Dr. Adams was captured by Whigs, for his British Loyalist sympathies and he and his sons were imprisoned. Adams escaped and fled north, to Canada, reaching the British lines, in Quebec. Joining the King’s Army, Adams served, during the Battle of Valcour Island, during Lake Champlain Campaign, in 1776 and raised an independent, Loyalist company, known as Adams’ Rangers, which served, under British General  John Burgoyne, in the Saratoga campaign of 1777. Four of Adams’ sons served in his ranger company, with his eldest son Gideon Adams, acting as ensign.
    • Following the war, Adams and his sons settled in the province of Upper Canada now present-day Southeastern Ontario, Canada alongside other disbanded British Loyalist troops and their families. Adams ran a tavern in Montreal, serving British troops and expatriates.
  • Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=28
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162960257/samuel-adams