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Roll#D2: Plat Book
Ninety Six District : North Side of Saluda River
(Little River District may have been on other side?)
Plat Book :A
1784/5; 1788; 1793/4

1071 Alexander Adair
654 James Kilgore
990 Ben Kilgore

http://www.copies1918.net/ninety-six-a.html

Would the John Adair who dc1784 have been an uncle of this Alexander Adair ?

SC Library & Archives
Ninety-Six District : North side of Saluda River
Plat Book: B 1785 - 1787

100 James Adair
784 James Adair
1155 John Adair
445 Benjamin Killgore / Kilgore

1802 Will of Ben Kilgore of Livingston Co. KY.
Will Book A p.45.
Benjamin Kilgore m. Jane McDavid.
Were on Duncan's Creek in Laurens SC by 1770 living on land bounded in part by McDavid's.

Dau. JANE m. Adair

Messages on Genforum, Kilgore family #880 and #898.
"John Adair was a Scotsman m. 1stly Nancy who was a sister of Mrs. Dorcas Duncan, wife of Young Charles Gordon Duncan who was also a Scotsman". (may or may not be correct).

Person on this Genforum, Kilgore family, has a bible, apparently of Jane Adair down through her son Charles Duncan Adair

Posting the data below in trying to ascertain the dates & lands of Adairs in case it may help.
Lisa probably has more info on her page -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/9708/dcem.html
which mentions Enoree.

1786 Vardy McBee of Spartanburgh Co. to Ben Killgore 400 acres on Enoree River including mouth of Gilders Creek originally granted by patent Sep 18 1786.
Former survey in name of Martin Martin 10/10/1774.
Witnesses:
Ben Rainey
Ben Kivel
Lewis Eakin (Akins)
(Reel 16) p.380.
Inv. & appr. rec. June 2 1786.

perhaps may tie in with -
Spartanburg County.
Pages 346-347 Sep 17 1804 James ADEAR
(late of Spartanburgh) to Joh Puckett Esq (Laurens Dist)
sold 165 acres on N. side Enoree River,
border: Samuel Farrow and William Stewart;
grant 150 acres May 15 1771 to James Burton.
Witnesses:
James Craig
William Jones
Signed: James ADEAR Sr.
Wit. oath (Laurens Co) Sep 17 1804 Wm Craig to J.A. Elmore
Rec July 7 1806
Pages 346-347

Would this be near Jacks Township and Alexander Adair ?
Alexander Adair had an Uncle John Adair.

The James Adair who sold land to John Puckett on the north side of the Enoree River is undoubtedly the same James Adair who sold land to George and Joseph Adair on the south side of the Enoree in the same year - 1804 (Laurens Co. Deed Book J, p. 161). In all three cases he is listed as James Adair, late of Spartanburg. He is also the same James Adair who married Margaret Montgomery and moved to Indiana (hence the term, late of Spartanburg). George and Joseph are two of his sons. George moved to Gwinnett Co., GA.

Robin Adair settled as a land speculator in the heart of Chicoria, with his wife, Rebekkah (Montgomery?).
He settled at the head of Duncan's Creek, at a site identified on the Mouzon Map (1775) as "Robin's Fork", which drains into the Enoree River, thence into the Broad-Congaree-Santee.

I wonder where this land is in relation to that land owned by James Adair who m. Margaret Montgomery ?

There are maps ;

http://www.schistory.org/displays/maps/sc1839/sc1839mapjpg.h...

http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1779n44.jpg

Robin's fork appears to be in the top left-hand corner of Newberry Coo?).

Can anyone tie in this land with their Adairs please ?

re: The James Adair who sold land to John Puckett on the north side of the Enoree River is undoubtedly the same James Adair who sold land to George and Joseph Adair on the south side of the Enoree in the same year - 1804 (Laurens Co. Deed Book J, p. 161). In all three cases he is listed as James Adair, late of SPARTANBURG.

He is also the same James Adair (bc1732 ?) who married Miss Montgomery and moved to Indiana (hence the term, late of Spartanburg). George and Joseph are two of his sons. George moved to Gwinnett Co., GA.
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Colony of South Carolina Compiled by: Paul R. Sarrett, Jr.
Records of 1716 to 1783 Internet: prsjr@aol.com

L Name F Name Date County St Type Township

ADAIR , Benjamin 1779, Colony Co., SC, Old 96th District Twp.
ADAIR , James 1779 Colony Co, SC, Old 96th District Twp.
ADAIR , Jane 1764 Colony Co, SC, Warrant for Land, No Twp Listed
ADAIR , Joseph 1779 Colony Co, SC, Old 96th District Twp.
ADAIR , Robert 1779 Colony Co, SC, Old 96th District Twp.
ADAIR , William 1779 Colony Co, SC,Old 96th District Twp.
COILER , Barnet 1779 Colony Co, SC, Old 96th District Twp.
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Spartan Division - Grand Jury List of 117 Men
The area covered by the "Spartan Division" included what are now the modern-day SC counties of Union, Cherokee and Spartanburg.

26. William Plumer
27. Riney Below
28. BARNET COILER
29. William Gordon
30. Henry Clark

Mr.( ..............? ) Adair
married
Joyce Powell Sheppard b.1770 Newberry Dist, SC, d.1841,
(dau of James Sheppard b. 1737 d.1791 & Janette Riddell dc. 1825)

Joyce Adair (nee Sheppard) married
William Augustus Strother b.1766, Craven Co SC, d.1794
(son of George Strother & Mary).

Did both husbands die shortly after marriage,
or did Joyce marry Mr. Adair after Wm. Strother died 1794 ?

Edgefield district -
Strother-Sheppard Cemetery
Culpepper, Benjamin III (bt 1755 - 1765 - 10 Jan 1829)
Culpepper, Joyce Powell (1 Feb 1801 - 10 Feb 1824)
Sheppard, Joyce Powell (29 Dec 1770 - 24 Feb 1841)
Strother, George James (13 Apr 1791 - 18 Oct 1817)
Strother, Jeanette (3 Mar 1794 - 23 Jan 1795)
Strother, William Augustus (16 Feb 1766 - 18 Aug 1794)

Would Mr. Adair have lived in/near Newberry Co SC ?