Above: The Timothy Adams Farmhouse located in what is today Great Brook State Park. Timothy constructed this home after the war in 1792.

​Timothy Adams is said to have been a descendant of James Adams, our town's first colonial settler who was originally from Carlisle, England and was banished by the usurper, Oliver Cromwell. During the 18th Century, the Adams Family owned several hundred acres comprising the western portion of what is today Great Brook State Park. 

Timothy was born and raised on a farm located at 249 Pine Hill Road in Chelmsford and resided here at the time of the Revolution. Timothy began his service as a private in John Ford's Chelmsford company in Colonel Bridge's regiment in May of 1775. His company later served under Colonel Reed. Timothy participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill and in 1820 he was an honored guest at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Battle which included the laying of the corner stone for the Bunker Hill Monument and a speech by the great statesman and orator, Daniel Webster. 

After the war in 1792, Timothy built a small farm on land his family owned on North Road in Carlisle and lived there for the remaining 32 years of his live. His descendants continued to reside on the old Adams tract in Carlisle until the 1940s when they sold their remaining land to Farnham W. Smith, proprietor of the Great Brook Dairy Farm. 

Timothy is buried in South Chelmsford's Hart Pond Cemetery.

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Above: Timothy Adams' signature as it appears on an old deed in the personal collection of John Troast III.