Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3
1637-07-05
Noverint universi per presentes me Ferdinandam Adams nuper de Gibvico in Comto die Julij Anno regno dom
The Condition of this Obligation is such that whereas the said Adams is reported at his departure out of England to have been vnder question in some of his ma
W. 1. 141. The body of the document is in the handwriting of Governor Winthrop. Ferdinando Adams, who settled in Dedham in 1637, has been described as “a person of factious and schismatical disposition.” He was formerly a shoemaker of Ipswich, Suffolk, where he was churchwarden of St. Mary at the Tower. He and his fellow warden were excommunicated because “they had not according to order removed certain seats from the east wall of the chancel of that church, and placed the Lord’s table next the said wall; and also, that they had not removed from the said church an inscription from Mark XI. 17, and put up in its place certain words from Deuteronomy 1. 17.” Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1635–1636, 565.