VINTON, John Adams, genealogist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 5 February, 1801; died in Winchester, Massachusetts, 13 November, 1877. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1828, and at Andover theological seminary in 1831, ordained as a Congregational minister, 16 May, 1832, and held various pastorates in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. In 1846-'7 he was agent of the American society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, and in 1859-'60 he was chaplain to the state almshouse at Monson, Massachusetts After the latter date he held no charge, but resided at South Boston and then at Winchester, and devoted himself to genealogical researches. He contributed many articles to periodicals, including '" Reminiscences of the Park Street Church" in the Boston "Recorder" (1849), and was the author of "The Vinton Memorial " (Boston, 1858 ; abridged ed., entitled "Sketches of the Vinton and other Families," 1858) ; "The Giles Memorial" (1864) ; "The Sampson Family in America" (1864) ; "Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier of the Revolution," a reprint, with introduction and notes, of a rare work that was published at Dedham in 1797 (1866) ; "The Symmes Memorial," containing an autobiography of the author (1873) ; "The Upton Memorial" (printed privately, Bath, Maine, 1874); and "The Richardson Memorial" (Portland, 1876).