8. Ebenezer Adams, uncle to JA, died in 1769, less than a month after his son Micajah, whose heirs were three daughters and a son. Micajah's daughter Huldah married Moses Babcock of East Milton, Mass., in 1782. The land that AA purchased is described in the
{p. 155}
deed, dated 2 May, by which Moses and Huldah Babcock sold the seven acres to JA for £57. (
A. N. Adams, Geneal. Hist. of Henry Adams of Braintree
, 1:401, 412, 431; deed in Adams Office Papers).