Surgeons in colonial America were often barbers who used their cutting tools to perform surgery. Physicians were university trained. Midwives assisted women in childbirth.
Samuel Adams, born in 1730 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He was a physician and surgeon.
He married Martha Curtis.
Martha and Samuel's children may have included:
Gideon Adams (1755, married Joanna Benedict Ward), William Samuel Adams (1756, married Catherine Snyder and Philena Hinds),
Joel Adams (1760),
Mary Adams (1761),
Andrew Adams (1763),
Elijah Adams
(1770),
and
Ezra Adams (1772).
In 1764 they left Connecticut and moved to Arlington, Vermont. In 1774 Ethan Allen arrested him. After a hearing he was convicted as an enemy, and punished by being suspended from the Catamount Inn's sign.
When the Revolution began, Samuel his sons, volunteered in the King's Rangers.
Samuel retired to keep an inn in Montreal, at Point-aux-Trembles and then moved to Johnstown to be closer to his sons.
He died in 1810 in Edwardsburg, Ontario.
United Empire Loyalists were Americans who remained loyal to King George III and the British Empire. They moved to Canada after the American Revolution.
