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Descendants of James Robert Adair, Sr

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN² ADAIR, SR (JAMES ROBERT¹) was born 1753. He married (1) JANE KILGORE Aft. 1790. She was born Abt. 1770. He married (2) NANCY GA-HO-GA LIGHTFOOT May 15, 1804, daughter of JOHN LIGHTFOOT, CAP. She was born Abt. 1760.

Notes for JOHN ADAIR, SR:
Starr lists John as being Scot/Cherokee but in the 1906 application of his grand-son, James Bell, he is listed as being born in Ireland.
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Abstracts of Old Ninrty-Six and Abbeville Dist Wills and Bonds
As on file in the Abbeville, South Carolina, Courthouse;

Will of John Adair - pp 176-179:
Wife Jean to have negro man Friday and woman Old Jenny. Land at Flat Shoal Little River below Fish Trap called Walters Trap, joins Kye's line. Son Samuel. Son Walter to have one third of debts due me in the Cherokee Nation which he is about to collect. Walter to make title to Thomas B. for plantation where I now live. To daughter Charlotte. To son John 224 acres on Conneross purchased of James Baird. Son Edward owes me considerable sum. I also purchased note from James Head paid $42.00 for relapsing and carrying through some lands. This I request him to make title to my son Thomas B. I also give to my daughter (did not name her) a negro woman Peggy. To son James land where I now live, joining Cane Creek, John Moore and Sloan. To daughter Jane (?) a negro woman Jenny. To son William Henry land on Rusk's Still House Branch. To son Charles D. To son Washington, a negro girl Susan. Son Benjamin Franklin. Son John Alexander to have negro boy Peter and land in fork between Cane Creek and Little River. I owe debt to Adam Tunneau. My still and property to be sold for money sufficient to release negro Harry from Thomas Reid from the present embarrassment. Furniture and stock kept together and plantation cultivated for support of children until they marry or come of age.
Dated 4 Nov. 1815.
Wit.: Samuel Boystun (Signed) Jno. Adair
Thomas Lanier
N. B. I appoint Joseph Reid, Esq., and Samuel Boydston and Capt.
David Sloan my executors.
Proven 4 Dec. 1815

More About JOHN ADAIR, SR:
Blood: Scot
Burial: Rome, Floyd Co, GA
Starr's Notes: B990

More About JANE KILGORE:
Blood: Non-Cherokee
Starr's Notes: B990

More About NANCY GA-HO-GA LIGHTFOOT:
Blood: Full Blood Cherokee
Burial: Rome, Floyd Co, GA
Clan: Ani'-Kawi' = Deer Clan (Ga-ho-ga)

Children of JOHN ADAIR and JANE KILGORE are:

	i.	JAMES³ ADAIR, b. Abt. 1792.
4.	ii.	THOMAS BENJAMIN ADAIR, b. Abt. 1794.
	iii.	MARGARET JANE ADAIR, b. March 11, 1797; m. WILLIAM RICHARDSON NICHOLSON; b. Abt. 1790.
	iv.	WILLIAM HENRY ADAIR, b. Abt. 1798.
	v.	CHARLES DUNCAN ADAIR, b. Abt. 1800.
	vi.	GEORGE WASHINGTON ADAIR I, b. Abt. 1802.
	vii.	ELBERT EARL ADAIR, b. Abt. 1804.
	viii.	MARY ANN ADAIR, b. Abt. 1806.
5.	ix.	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ADAIR I, b. Abt. 1808; d. Bef. 1851.
6.	x.	JOHN ALEXANDER ADAIR, b. Abt. 1810.

Children of JOHN ADAIR and NANCY LIGHTFOOT are:

7.	xi.	SAMUEL³ ADAIR I, b. 1781, Adairsville, Bartow Co, GA; d. Abt. 1836.
8.	xii.	WALTER BLACK WATT ADAIR, b. December 11, 1783, Adairsville, Bartow Co, GA; d. January 20, 1835, CNW.
9.	xiii.	CHARLOTTE (LIGHTFOOT) ADAIR, b. Abt. 1785, Adairsville, Bartow Co, GA; d. September 1838, CNE.
10.	xiv.	EDWARD ADAIR, b. February 07, 1789, CNE [GA]; d. December 21, 1864, Adairsville, Bartow Co, GA.
	xv.	JOHN ADAIR, JR, b. Abt. 1790, Adairsville, Bartow Co, GA; d. Bef. 1838.

Notes for JOHN ADAIR, JR:
John never married. After becoming a grown man he enlisted in the United States Army during the War of 1812 and after the great battle of New Orleans he was honorably discharged but he disappeared and was never heard of again.
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In Starr's unpublished notes, there is a notation next to John that states: "K at Battle of New Orleans"
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Note: It's possable that Starr has this John Adair confused with his cousin, James Adair, son of Betsy Scott and Edward Adair Sr. James Adair died of the effects of wounds he got at the battle of Horseshoe Bend.

More About JOHN ADAIR, JR:
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Clan: Ani'-Kawi' = Deer Clan (Ga-ho-ga)

3. EDWARD² ADAIR, SR (JAMES ROBERT¹) was born 1755, and died August 1820. He married (1) ELIZABETH (HICKS) SCOTT Bef. 1791, daughter of WALTER SCOTT and SARAH HICKS. She was born 1774, and died November 05, 1825. He married (2) ELIZABETH (GO-SA-DU-I-S-GA) SCOTT Bef. 1794, daughter of WALTER SCOTT and GO-SA-DU-I-S-GA. She was born Abt. 1771.

Notes for EDWARD ADAIR, SR:
Edward Sr may have been married to a Vann that mothered Edward Jr. His wife Betsy Scott was married to Chief James Vann and she may have been listed with her Vann name as the mother of Ed Jr.

Edward Adair Sr and his brother John are supposed to be the half-Cherokee sons of the Indian trader James Adair; however, this has not been proved. Edward and John may have been Non-Cherokee relatives [nephews? great-nephews?] of the Indian Trader. Edward in particular was refered to in the records of Gideon Blackburn's School as a "White Patron" in 1807.

Dr Emmet Starr refers to John & Edward as "Two brothers, John and Edward Adair, Scotchmen, came to America from North Ireland..."

More About EDWARD ADAIR, SR:
Blood: Scot
Note: Bet. 1806 - 1807, "White Patron" of Gideon Blackburn's School
Starr's Notes: B990

More About ELIZABETH (HICKS) SCOTT:
Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
Starr's Notes: B990; d:11/5/1825 "Wolf Clan"

Children of EDWARD ADAIR and ELIZABETH SCOTT are:

11.	i.		WALTER SCOTT RED WAT³ ADAIR, b. January 28, 1791, CNE [GA]; d. September 26, 1854, Stilwell, Flint Dist, CNW.
	ii.		JAMES ADAIR, b. 1793; d. February 1814, Georgia; m. NANCY _____; b. 1797; d. Aft. 1857.

Notes for JAMES ADAIR:
The "History of the Adair Family" lists Walter Scott Adair as the only child of Edward Adair and Betsy Scott; however below is transcribed an application by Betsy Scott for her son, James Adair.

Col Morgan, Jr's Reg't, Cherokee Indians, War of 1812, Card #39026986 #7003, Adair, James;
Know all men by these present that I, Betsey Scot of the Cherokee Nation, have this day nominated and appointed Charles Hicks of said nation my true and lawfull attorney for me, and in my name to ask, demand and recieve of Col. Return J Miegs or the proper authority, such sum or sums of money as is due my son James Adair, deceased, for his services to the United States, for a tour of duty performed against the hostile Creeks under the command of Captain David McNair of said nation. Commencing the 7th October 1813 and ending the 6th Jany
1814 as the above [do] charge will appear.

I also empower my said attorney to receipt for all moneys for me and to my use, and to act and to do all things necessary on the [premise] in as full and ample manner as I myself could do were I personally present in witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal, on Chickamagie, this thirteenth day of July ANNO DOMINI 1816-

her
Betsey X Scott
mark
for James Adair, Deceased

Test. William Murdock

More About JAMES ADAIR:
Education: Bet. 1806 - 1807, Gideon Blackburn's School (age 13)
Military service: Bet. January 11 - February 10, 1814, under Charles Hicks
Moravian Journals: February 19, 1814, James Adair, Peggy [Scott] Crutchfield's nephew, has died
RG75, E545 Reg of BLW: October 28, 1857, BLW# 285654 by Nancy (widow)

Child of EDWARD ADAIR and ELIZABETH SCOTT is:

12.

iii.

EDWARD³ ADAIR, JR, b. 1794, CNE [GA].