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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 tocorrection. Spelling of names subject to correction. For this particular individual, there is no connection yet proved except for proximity in time and location thru the following record. Note the following record, as given by Brownslee, does not tell me whether this individual was of the Laurens County area or not:
"Compensation for Revolutionary Service. South Carolina House of Representatives-Annuities, Claims, and Pension Reports.
1785
Feb. 7 pd. Eliz. Adair, widow of Robert,* killed by Indians.
Apr. 24 pd. Sarah Adair, widow of John, killed in '82.
June 10 pd. Catherine Adair, widow of Benjamin, killed 10 Mar. '81.
Nov. 29 pd. Elizabeth Finny. Widow of John Finny, killed at Cowpens. She mar. (2) Robert Long.
1786 Aug. 23 pd. Eliz'h Adair, wid. of Robert, killed by Indians."
*William C. Stewart, author of Gone to Georgia, states that Robert Adair married in 1774 Elizabeth Posey, the widow Huffman and moved from Virginia to SC. Their son, Robert S. Adair, born c1783 married Martha Lafevre. His sister, Nancy, married Samuel Maloney. Both families moved to Gwinnett Co., Ga. about 1818.
The SC Jury List 1778 shows Robert Adair in the area near the Abbeville and what is now Anderson Co. line. Anderson, Pickens, and Oconee counties were still Indian country during the Revo. War. In 1789, this Indian country was established as Pendleton District; in 1826 the district was divided into Anderson and Pickens Counties; Oconee was cut out of Pickens Co. in 1868. After the war, Elizabeth Adair received a grant of land in Anderson Co. on Wilson's Creek near the present Iva, SC. Her family lived there until they moved to Ga."
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