Joseph Adams

Joseph Adams ( 1700 – 29 September 1737) was a British-born Canadian chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company.

When Adams returned to Fort Albany to continue working at the Hudson's Bay Company, he became Joseph Myatt's deputy from 1727 until Myatt's death on 9 June 1730, after which Adams took over as chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company based at Fort Albany. Adams surveyed Moose River in July 1728 with William Bevan and also located the original site of Moose Factory, Ontario. The company's London committee told Adams to establish a factory at Moose in 1730, and despite reservations about their capabilities, he sent Thomas Render and John Jewer to build the post.