General Notes

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He served as Clerk of Court of Monroe County for awhile where he may have met his future wife as he signed the Affidavit for Pension of Abraham Morrill, his future father-in-law.

He purchased land in Avon Township, Oakland County Michigan in 1832 near his father's.  He moved to Oakland County about 1834 or 1835 because in the 1834 Directory of the Rochester he was listed as a Clerk in the common Pleas Court.  He attended the first Town Meeting on  6 April 1835 where he was listed as Commissioner of Highways.

He married Martha Morrill on 24 Oct 1835 in Avon Towwnship.  Martha was the daughter of Abraham Morrill and Sarah HOYT of Ogden Town, Monroe County,  New York.  Martha may have come west with her brother, Abner.

He farmed and also did carpentry work.  The family still has a small sewing box he made for his daughter, Helen and a checker table.


OBITUARY
          Died on Monday, Leonard Adams, one of the pioneer settlers of this section, aged 89 years. The funeral services were held at the home of his son, James, in Oakwood Wednesday. Rev Hageman officiating. Internment in Rochester cemetery. Whitcomb & Son in charge of services. Mr. Adams was born in Ontario County, New York. He lived at Rochester as a farmer at a time when there was no village here. An old Indian trail passed through here and Mr. Adams had often been in this section hunting bee trees. He leaves three daughters and one son behind.
Oxford Intruder, 16 Dec. 1898, Pg 1.

Buried in Mt. Avon Cemetery in Rochester, Michigan