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Wife: Susannah LONG
Birthdate: 1723
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Death date: April 9, 1800
Place of death: Laurens County, South Carolina
Burial: Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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* About 1730, Thomas Adair, with his family, migrated from County Antrim in Ireland, to Chester County, Pennsylvania. They spent about 20 years in Penn, then joined the WAXAW Colony of Scotch Irish steelers from Penn. who migrated to South Carolina and settled in the middle north counties date about 1750-55. McGrady's History of South Carolina says the Adairs were prominent members of this Colony, which produced so many noble men and woman. Thomas Adair brought three of his sons with him to S.C.(we do not know if this was all his family), these three became noted as the three brothers and founders of the three of the most prominent families of Adairs in America. They were James, Joseph, and William, (ranked in the order named).
James was born in 1709, was an Indian Trader and Author, and his progeny are in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Joseph was born in 1711; his progeny are in S.C., and the Southern States to the west of S.C.
William Adair (whom we designate William, the Pioneer) the youngest son was born in Antrim County Ireland, in 1719, and hence was eleven years old when his father brought him to America; they settled first in Pennsylvania, Chester County; where they remained twenty years, and where William Adair was educated.
The WAXAW Colony had lands in Chester and adjoining counties in S.C., and the ADAIR Colony had lands in Laurens County, adjoining the WAXAW on the west, but the two colonies were practically one, because they were established about the same time, and both composed of Scotch Irish settlers from Pennsylvainia and elsewhere. William Adair married in 1754, secured land on Fishing Creek in Chester County, S.C., cleared land for a farm; built a house, locating it near the water, as did the other Pioneer settlers, for the better protection against the Wild Indians. It was as a family man that William Adair shone most. He educated his children to the best of his ability; sent them to Charlotte, N.C., for their high school training; he was altogether an enterprising and public spirited citizen.
His son John was a student in the Charlotte High School, where Dr. McWhorter was Principal, when he espoused the American Cause and went into the American Army, and William Adair's other two sons, William Adair, Jr., and James, both followed into the American Army; also Adair's foster son, Edward Lacy, whom they had raised and treated like one of their own sons. Lacy became a Colonel and was in many of the importnat battles of the revolution, and he was elected County Judge of Chester Co., after the war was over; he was an honorable citizen and always appreciated his foster parents. Some battles of the pending wat were fought on Fishing Creek in Adair's neighborhood: Hauck's party stopped at Adair's on their way to Williamson's. After having taken the silver buckles from Mrs. Adair's shoes, the rings from her fingers, and the handkerchief from her neck, they took her husband out and put a rope around his neck and were about to hang him because his sons were out with the rebels, when some of the tories pleaded on his behalf that the old man was not so much to blame, it was the mother who had encouraged her sons, and urged them to their rebellious course. The officer then drew Mrs. Adair apart; and remarking that he had understood that her sons were fine young men, and that her influence over them was such that she could persuade them to anything she pleased, promised if she would swing them over to the King's service, he would obtain for each of them a commision in the British army. The matron replied her sons had minds of their own, thought and acted for themselves. The call made by the Whigs befor daylight next morning, July 12, has been noticed. After they were gone, Mr and Mrs Adair left the house quietly, leaving the two officers in bed, who quartered themselves upon them, for they knew in a short time there would be warm work at their neighbors. They had scarcely reached the shelter of a thicket when they heard the first gun fire, and for more than an hour remaied in agitating suspense, At length, venturing in sight of the road, they saw the red coats and Tories flying, and soon afterwards the gallant McClure in pursuit, no longer in fear they returned to the house. When they went to the battle ground, Mrs Adair helped dress the wounds of Captain Anderson, who had insisted that she send sons to him, and reminded him of the order. His reply when she showed her son was ill, "a little too late". The sons removed their aged parents to Virginia, and then came back to the Camp, and all again took up arms, which were never laid down until the surrender of Cornwallis. Then they returned home and each took up bravely the work once more replenishing the comforts of homes so often over-run during the war.
After the middle of the year 1788, William Adair's whole family, after selling their home, moved off to Kentucky, and henceforth William Adair, the Pioneer, was known as the father of the Kentucky Adair's. Joseph Adair, Sr. Born in Ireland immigrated to South Carolina where he fought in the American Revolution alongside William Berry and George Washington. He was one of the oldest soldiers in that war. His son and grandson also fought along side him as well as his grand daughter's husband, Capt. James Dillard. Joseph Adair and Sarah Laferty were the grandparents of Mary Ramage Dillard, American Revolution heroine. Her mother was their daughter, Jean Ramage. This marker is erected at Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church where he was a charter member and an elder. The Adair family is one of the oldest in Ireland. The Adare Castle sits on the Shannon River still today.
* U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Sarah Laferty
Name: Sarah Laferty
Gender: female
Birth Place: PA
Spouse Name: Joseph Adair
Spouse Birth Year: 1711
Marriage Year: 1732
Marriage State: PA
Number Pages: 1.