The son of Samuel Adams, deceased, a house carpenter, late of Bristol (A, Ao).
| 1761 | 5 Aug or Sep. He was apprenticed to William I and Mary Maynard with £10 from Edward Colston, deceased (A, Ao). |
| 1772 | 22 Feb. He obtained his freedom as a potter (F, G). |
| 1774 | St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1780 | Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Adams of St Philip’s parish, potter, received £1 from John Whitson’s Charity for poor women in child bed (JW). |
| 1781 | St Philip’s parish (P). |
| 1783 | Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Adams of St Philip’s parish, potter, received £1 from Ann Thurston’s Charity for the relief of poor women in child bed (BRO 041919). |
| 1784 | St Philip’s parish (P). |
| He was probably the Robert Adams who received the following wages from the Bedminster Pottery: | |
| 1788 | 4 Oct: 15 shillings; 11 Oct: 15s; 18 Oct: 15s; 25 Oct: 15s; 1 Nov: 15s; 8 Nov: 15s; 15 Nov: 16s.9d; 22 Nov: 17s.11d; 29 Nov: 15s.7d. (Bedminster Pottery Day Book). |
| 1789 | 27 Jun: 16s.6d; 4 Jul: 13s.5½d; 11 Jul: 18s.2½d (Bedminster Pottery Day Book). |
| 1799 | Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Adams of Bedminster, potter, received £1 from John Whitson’s Charity for poor women in child bed (JW). |