Adams and Joosten formed families with Japanese wives, and their children inherited property. Later restrictions on foreigners raise a question about whether those families left Japan or became absorbed into Japanese society. Sparse surviving records leave their fate uncertain. Local relationships and influential friends could have protected their children. That possibility needs to remain distinct from a confirmed account of every descendant's fate.
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What happened to the foreign merchants' families?
Local marriages and inherited property complicate the assumption that restrictions on foreigners necessarily expelled every descendant.