Through the Chapin[REF][REF][REF][REF] family-line, Otis Norcross is the first cousin fourth removed of the second U.S. President John Adams, and the respective second cousin third removed therefore of the sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams,[REF] as well as, the distant cousin of Brig.-Gen.
Otis Norcross, Sr. (1785-1827), married Mary Cunningham [Homer], January 8, 1809, parents of Otis Norcross, Jr. (their second child), and siblings including: Mary Homer Norcross (1809-1885),[REF] married Oct. 1830 Stephen Gore Bass,[REF] Caroline A. [Norcross], married in 1834 [Hon.]