Adams appears to have arranged marriages that connected his descendants with influential families. Profitable lands and preparation for their responsibilities also supported their position. His English wife died in Gillingham in 1620. He also married a Japanese woman, but accounts differ over her name and family identity. The shogun may have introduced them. Those uncertainties limit how precisely the family relationships can be reconstructed.
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Family connections and the uncertainty over Adams's wife
Influential marriages and profitable lands appear to have strengthened his family's position, while his Japanese wife's identity remains disputed.