Adair from Ireland
ADAIR FAMILIES by Jeannette Holland Austin
A complete Adair Genealogy is available online to members of GeorgiaPioneers.com.
The earliest known Adair genealogy begins in the Highlands of Scotland about 1360. About 1600, John Adair migrated to Benoch, Antrim County, Ireland, where the families became Presbyterians and were known as Scot-Irish.
It was Joseph Adair, born 1711 in Antrim, who migrated to Laurens County, South Carolina, where he was married in 1772 to Sarah Laferty and buried in the cemetery of the Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church. His brother, William, died in Mercer County, Kentucky.
John Adair, the Governor of Kentucky, was born January 9, 1757, in Chester County, South Carolina, and died in 1840 in Mercer County, Kentucky.
The Adairs from this lineage mostly settled in Chester County, South Carolina, among other Irish families.
William Adair, born in 1749 in Virginia, died in 1804 in Jackson County, Georgia. He served in the Revolutionary War. Bozeman Adair (a son), was the administrator of his estate in Jackson County.
This picture was found by relatives in Paulding County. Bozeman's hair and beard were red.
Bozeman Adair, Sr., was born in 1771 in Virginia and died in April 1857 in Paulding County, Georgia.
There is a story of one of the heirs of Bozeman Adair going out West and leaving a large estate. During the early 20th century, some attorneys came to Paulding County, Georgia, and visited my great-grandparents to establish heirs to the estate. For years, I heard from my grandparents about our wealthy Adair relative in Texas! Finally, my curiosity drove me to research the old Georgia court cases. Indeed, I found such a case was found and settled among some distant Adair relatives.
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Sources: Adair History and Genealogy by James Barnett Adair (1924); History of South Carolina by McGrady; Adair Gedcom File