Joshua ADAMS
Active in the Methodist Church Arza, his wife, Sabrina, and Barnabus probably traveled together to Missouri, Barnabus was the only other member of the immediate family to join the church. Arza was ordained to the office of an Elder on June 3 1837 and set apart for a mission by Elder John E. Page and Elder A. Stevens and "started on the 19th of June to preach the gospel without purse or script."
He married Elizabeth Chipman 15 Mar 1803 at Elizabethtown, Lanark, Ontario, Canada . Elizabeth Chipman was born at Salisbury, Vermont 28 Feb 1786 daughter of Barnabus Lathrop Chipman and Beulah Evarts .
They were the parents of 12
children:
Arza Matson Adams
born 22 Jan 1804.
Alvah Adams, Rev.
born 23 Nov 1805.
Richard Saxton Adams
born 6 Feb 1808.
Buelah Evarts Adams
born 26 Jan 1810.
Barnabus Lathrop Adams
born 18 Aug 1812.
Joshua Adams
born 14 May 1815.
Lucy Matson Adams
born 15 Dec 1817.
James Adams
born 16 Oct 1819.
Daniel Adams
born 17 Oct 1820.
Franklin Metcalf Adams
born 27 Jan 1823.
Elizabeth Evelyn Adams
born 3 May 1827.
Lydia Ann Adams
born 22 Jan 1830.
Joshua Adams died 23 Apr 1863 at Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada .
Elizabeth Chipman died 29 Feb 1856 at Adamsville, Lanark, Ontario, Canada .