Thomas was a son of Benjamin Adams & Eunice Hale.

He was married 1st on 13 Jun 1819 to Sarah Barnard.

They had a son: Benjamin H. Adams.

He was married 2nd on 3 Sep 1822 to Lavinia Swan.

They had a daughter: Sarah B. Adams.

He was married 3rd on 16 Aug 1827 to Catherine Lyman.

They had 2 sons: William Swan Adams; and Edward Francis Adams.


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The Centennial history of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine page 441 Chapter XXII - The Pulpit of Waterville

Rev. Thomas Adams, D.D., son of Benjamin and Eunice Adams, was born in North Brookfield, Mass,. February 7, 1792, and died in Winslow, Me., February 4, 1881, three days before the completion of his eighty-ninth year. He prepared for college in the Leicester Academy, and in 1814 was graduated from Dartmouth College. After taking a course in theology under his pastor, Rev. Thomas Snell of North Brookfield, he was ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational church in Vassalboro, Me., August 26, 1818. He retained this pastorate until 1834, having charge, also, of the churches in Winslow and Clinton - now Benton Falls. During the year following he was agent of the Maine Temperance Society and resided in Hallowell. From that time until May 31, 1838 he was the minister of the Waterville Congregational church, though not formally installed as pastor until September 27, 1836. After leaving Waterville, he for three years edited the Maine Temperance Gazette, published first in Augusta and afterward in Portland. He was agent for the American Tract Society, 1843-'46. He preached the next 10 years in ohio, the first in Hampden, the other nine in Thompson. After four years' service as agent of the Congregational Board of Publication he returned to Maine, served the Pittston Congregational church as pastor one year (1863-'64), removed then to Vassalboro and served as pastor four years, when he retired from the pastorate, but continued to reside in Vassalboro until 1871, spent the next nine months in Waterville and then removed to Winslow where he resided until his death. He was three times married and survived his third wife (Catherine L. daughter of Caleb Lyman of North Brookfield) eleven years. He had three sons, of whom one survived him (Edward F., of San Francisco) and one daughter, SArah B., who at the Kennebec Conference in Waterville in 1894, read an extremely interesting paper entitled "Reminiscences of the Churches and Pastors of Kennebec County" which was published in pamphlet form. The well merited degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College, his alma mater. he was held in profound esteem wherever he was known and throughout all this region his name is honored and his memory cherished. His daughter says (Reminiscences p.15): "He was buried on his eighty-ninth birthday and rests in the little cemetery on the hill, where he always wished to be placed, with those who had gone before. No more fitting memorial could have been raised for him than the little chapel which has been placed in Vassalboro by the gifts of so many of his friends, and none that would have been so acceptable to him."