| ADAMS,
    Edward Hamlin, Esq.,  of Middleton Hall, Co. Carmarthen, born at
    Kingston, Jamaica, 30 April 1777; married at Philadelphia, U.S., 5 Jan. 1796, Amelia
    Sophia, eldest daughter of Capt. John MacPherson, by Mary Anne MacNeil, his 2nd 
    wife, and grand-daughter of William MacPherson, descended from Galliehattan More, Chief of
    the clan Chattan, and had issue: 
	Edward,
    born 28 April, 1809, married. William, born 15 Sept.1814,
    married. Mary Anne,
    married.            Caroline,
    married.
                   Matilda. Mr. Adams,
    a County Magistrate, served as High Sheriff, for Carmarthenshire in 1832, and was Knight
    of the Shire in Parliament in 1833-4. | 
  
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	Lineage: William ADAMS, Esq.,
    who died in 1703, married 23 Dec. 1697, Frances, daughter of Thomas Walrond, Esq., by Lady
    Frances Hackett, daughter of Sir Jonathan Atkins, Knt., Governor of Barbados, from 1674 to
    1680, and by her (who married subsequently George Graeme, Esq.,) left at his decease, a
    son: Thomas ADAMS, Esq.,
    who married at Barbadoes, Margarett, daughter of Thomas Maxwell, great-great-grandson of
    Carlaveroche, Earl of Nithsdale, and by her had issue: William (of whom
    presently); Thomas Maxwell, of
    Adam's Castle, Barbadoes, married in 1770, Mrs. Anne Fonblanque; Elizabeth, married in
    1728, to James Monk, Chief of Justice of Canada; Frances, married
    1757, to Samuel Sedgwick, Esq., M.D. William Adams, Esq.,
    married 1st, Eleanor Roseaman, by whom he had no issue to survive; and 2ndly, Elizabeth
    Anne, daughter of Thomas Coxeter, Esq., by whom (who married 2ndly, Robert Gordon, Esq.,
    and had two children, Elizabeth Maxwell, and Robert Edward Gordon) he had issue, William Maxwell, born
    19 Oct. 1775; who died unmarried in 1795. Edward
    Hamlin, of Middleton Hall; Thomas Maxwell, who
    married 4 July, 1792, Anne St.John Trefusis (sister of Lord Clinton); Anna Margaretta, who
    died unmarried in 1789. | 
  
    | Arms:         
	  Arg., on a
    cross gu, five mullets (or estoiles), or,   
	Crest:   
         
	Out of a ducal coronet, or a demi-lion, affronte, gu,   
	Motto:
         Aspire, Persevere, and
    indulge not.    
	Seat:
           Middleton Hall, in the
    Parish of Llanarthney, Co. Carmarthen. |