Rebecca

- Aft 1819

• Name	Rebecca
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1819
  Person ID	I3739	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family	James Adair   d. Aft 1819
  Marriage	Bef 1819	of Duncan Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, United States
  Family ID	F1895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: 1. Typescript "Early Adairs of Laurens County, South Carolina." Compiled by Mildred Brownlee; Source Records: Wills; Intestate Estates; Deeds; Court Records; Cemetery Inscriptions. Some dates of birth and death obtained from Lineage Charts. Dates of birth and death subject to correction. Spelling of names subject to correction. [Note that bracketed comments are later additions by other reviewers including myself - Kerry Petersen.] A. "James Adair - "to son, James Adair, the tract of land he now lives on, lying on the S side of Little Duncan Creek. add. Thos. McCrary. Alexander Wilkerson, & Elisha Adair; also a Negro man Duke." Deed Bk. K, p. 235 - 6 Jan. 1819, James Adair to Wm. Gamble, 135 a. on Miller's Fork, part of an original grant to Joseph Adair, adj. James Howerton and land formerly belonging to Elisha Adair. Release of dower by Rebecca Adair. (Here is another James Adair whose wife was named Rebecca...maiden name not known.) Nothing further of this James Adair has been found in Laurens Co. records. In 1823, Elisha Adair owned a slave Duke. Same Duke?"