Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet Hastings

Nathaniel Dickinson Adams was born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. We have a handsome photograph of the house. He is the son of Asa Adams the II, who was the son of Asa Adams the first, the builder of the house in Shutesbury.

Nathaniel removed (sic) to Amherst, Massachusetts and married Harriet Hastings, a beautiful woman who lived a long life.

They had three sons:

Charles Dickinson Adams
Henry Martyn Adams
and
Herbert Baxter Adams

Charles went to Phillips Exeter, Amherst College and Columbia University. He would become a lawyer in New York City. He married Mary Clark Wood and had a son and a daughter. (2) He would name his son after his best friend, Mason Tyler. His daughter was Georgiana Wood.

Henry Martyn went to West Point and became a General. He married Fannie Louisa McGuire. They would have three sons, just like the family Henry Martyn was raised in. (3)

Herbert Henry
Edward McGuire Adams
Thomas Dickinson

Herbert Baxter would become a pioneering historian at Johns Hopkins. He did not marry.

Earliest American Ancesters (Forefathers)

The Adams of Massachusetts hailed from Henry Adams who arrived from England in 1634 in Braintree, later renamed Quincy. As Charles Dickinson Adams recounts in a speech to the 1883 Dickinson Family Reunion in Amherst, the Adams who stayed East went on to become the renowned John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams; those who moved west, as Nathaniel's ancestors did, became pioneers, lumber merchants and farmers, soldiers and later army corps of engineers working on mining, or water management or the railroads.