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Joseph Adair, Sr.^[1]
1711 - Abt 1789

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• Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1711	Antrim Co., Ireland   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1789	Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Cem., Laurens Co., S. C.   [3]
  Buried	Duncan Creek Cem., Laurens Co., S. C.
  Person ID	I0048	J. Purifoy Adair8
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2012

  
  

  Father	Thomas Adair,   b. Abt 1680, Antrim County, Ireland ,   d. Abt 1750, United States
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Margaret Henart(?)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F07	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sarah Laferty,   b. 1715, South Carolina ,   d. 1770, Laurens Co., S.C.
  Married	1732	Pennsylvania   [4]
  Children	1. Benjamin Adair, Sr.,   b. 1736, South Carolina ,   d. 3 Sep 1823, Laurens Co., S.C.
  Family ID	F06	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Per JeffPlane@aol.com on Dec. 11, 2001 at RootsWeb: ADAIR-L mailing list: "From Deed Book 3, Page 246, Lancaster County, PA, from Joshua Low, and wi fe to Elijah Jenkens, dated Oct. 9, 1810: "Whereas Joseph Adair by virtue of a proprietary grant dated the 20th d ay of August 1750 had surveyed unto him about the year 1757 certain 289 ac res three quarters of land in Little Britain township with the usual allow ance and by Deed Poll(?) dated the 9th of October 1764 the said Joseph Ada ir and Sarah his wife did grant the same land to Samuel Coulson......" History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of M any of its Pioneers and Prominent Men., Chapter LVI. Fulton Township, pa ge 850, at http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/books/ee/index.html: states : "Joseph Adair also occupied a large tract in the southeastern section of t he township, his survey being returned four hundred and twenty-two acr es by warrant of Aug. 20, 1750. He sold two hundres and eight-seven and t hree-quarter acres to Samuel Coulson, October 29, 1764, the balance havi ng been previously transferred to James Hanna. Coulson failed soon afte r, and the sheriff sold the above (with other land of his) to David Jenkin s, Aug. 7, 1767." From Hawbacker and Groff, A New Index: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Befo re the Federal Census, Volume 3, Index to the 1750 Tax Records, page 1 sta tes: "A Joseph Addair was in Little Britain Township in Lancaster County (Fult on Township was carved out of Little Britain Township quite a number of ye ars after the focus of this activity.) He was on the tax rolls there in 1 754, as "Adair" in 1756, and with the notation "Cooper" in 1758." JeffPlan@aol.co further states: "Thus there was a Joseph Adair, who w as a cooper, in Little Britain Township, PA, by 1750/ His wife when the l and was sold was Sarah. A Joseph "Eldare" and Sarahy "Lifferty" were marr ied in 1746 in the Old Swedes Church in Wilmington, DE, and James Adair, w ho is shown to be a son of Joseph Adair in both deed and probate recor ds in Laurens County, was born in 1747 according to James' tombstone in Br ookville, IN. The Joseph Adair in the Laurens area is called a coop er in various instruments, and it is well documented that Joseph's seco nd wife, Susannah Long, had to have married him well after he moved to Sou th Carolina." HISTORY OF LANCASTER Co., Penn. states: Owned 250 acre land grant, which is the present site of the Duncan Creek P resbyterian Church, Laurens Co., S. C. This was sold in 1778 to Benjam in Adair. He was buried in Duncans Creek Cemetery. His will, dated January 9, 178 8, stated that he gave and bequeathed to his wife, Susanna, all my sto ck of black cattle and hogs, with all the pewter of my dresser, and 160 C ontinental dollars which is in the hands of my son Joseph Adair and all t he store of my grain, farming tools, beds and bedstead. At her decea se to go to my son James Adair; also to my son Joseph Adair, the remiand er of the Continental money that remains in his hands....to son James Adai r, half of my coopers tools and other utensils belonging to my trade... to my son Benjamin Adair, the other half of my Coopers tools...also ha lf of that 20 dollars old currency for which he was to have pailled a Gra ve Yard which he never performed; also to my daughter Jean Rammage, my bra ss scale to my daughter Sarah Adair, the other half of the 20 dollars... to my Daughter, Mary Owens, my bigest Iron Pott, and to her husband John O wins, half of the sawed plank..to Robert Long, my son in law, the other ha lf of the sawed plank.......sons Joseph and James, Executors.. It was signed Joseph Adair Sr. (Mary Owens' maiden name was Long and was Susannah's daughter by her fir st marriage. Mary's husband's name was John) In 1790, the Fed. Census shows two Joseph Adair's living in South Carolin a, in Laurens County: Joseph Adair, book index page 74, with one male 16 and up and 3 males und er 16 and three females. Joseph Adair, book index page 74, with 4 males 16 and up and 1 male und er 16 and 4 females. In the 1800 Fed. Census shows only one Joseph Adair in South Carolina in L aurens Co. Was a soldier and commissary in the American Arm, War of the Revolutio n, at the age of 70. A petition was circulated before 1780 in support of Colonel James Willia ms who was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain. It has been called t he Col. James Williams Petition and the Little River Brigade Petition. O ne of the originals is in the South Caroliniana Library and anoth er is at Duke University. The copy from the Caroliniana Library is sign ed by 64 men, who may have been from the area around what is now Spartanbu rg Co. The one at Duke University has the signatures of 24 men from Laure ns Co. A signature on this petition could provide extremely good eviden ce for Revolutionary War Service. Some of the names on the list were: Robt. McCrery, Lt. Col., George Davis, Capt., Matthew McCrarey, Lieut., W m. Arther, Capt., Alexander Adair, Benjamin Adair, Isaac Adair, James Adai r, Sener., James Adair, Junr., Son of James, Jms. Adair, John Adair, Jo hn Adair, Sener, Joseph Adair, Juner., William Adair, James Craige, Willi am Craig, Samuel Ewing, Thomas Ewing, John Owens, and John Ramage. ROSTER OF SOUTH CAROLINA PATRIOTS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION states: Adair, Joseph, Sr. B. 1711 D. 1801 m. 1. Sarah Laferty 2. Susannah Long He served as a commissary of the Little River Regiment under Col. Case y. From 20 August 1781 to March 1782, he served under Col. Washington a nd others. Patriot Index; A.A. 23; X1955. The 1790 Federal Census shows the following: 2 Adairs in New York 2 in Pennsylvania 3 in Maryland 1 in North Carolina (Stephen Adair- 166 Salisberry Drist, Montgomery Co.) 11 in South Carolina The 1800 Federal Census shows the following for Laurens Co., S. C . Joseph Adair males 0-10 yrs = 1 males 45+ yrs = 1 females 45+ yrs = 1 slaves = 7




• Sources

  [S20450] Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. [S07354] The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. IV, page 63. [S27141] Tombstone Duncan Creek Cem.. [S22321] Adair: History and Genealogy by James Barnett Adair 1924.