[52b-16a] CHARLES HENRY HEYDRICK, b Mar. 5, 1799; d Dec. 16, 1883; s Dr. Christopher and Mary (Care) Heydrick [52b-3]; m Mar. 2, 1826, MARY ANN ADAMS, b May 10, 1803; d Sept. 28, 1838; dau Capt. James Adams.
Children (6):
Capt. James Adams was captain of the 4th Co. of the 5th Battalion of the Cumberland County Associators. [Vid. Pa. Archives, 2nd series, Vol. XIV, pp 372, 389, 416, 450.—Colonial Records, Vol. XI, p 90— History of Cumberland County.]
The remotest ancestor of the Adams family that has been located was Richard Adams, born about 1618 in Upper Hayford in Northampton, who bought five hundred acres of land in the province of Pennsylvania from William Penn, Feb. 26, 1681. [Vid. Pa. Archives, 2nd series, Vol. XIX, pp 621, 732.| This Richard Adams was the great-great-grandfather of Capt. James Adams who was born in 1734, and died in 1824. [C. H.]