Lee, THANK YOU! Possible this is why I cannot find anything to connect with my John. In what contex did the "being gone for five years" connect with your family or the Adamses? You can bet I will follow this as far as I can, what do you have that might help? I have access to Anc.com, and much in the way of census etc. Again, Thanks...I will share if I find anything.
Kathleen Gloyne
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Although I "remember" the story about the "family leaving", I can not find anything in my hard copy. Perhaps I read it during my research and simply did not write it down, at the time thinking it was not pertinent to my particular family.
In front of me, as I sit here typing, is a little booklet about the Florida ADAMS family. I will not go onto much their personal detail of their lives because it isn't pertinent to your research. But here is one item that I found interesting which was the family's mobility.
Joel T. ADAMS (b.circa 1812 SC) was married to Jane OUTLAW (b.circa 1816 SC); they left SC and are found Sept 1840 in Sumter Co., GA; then Coffee Co., ALA, in 1841; then apparantly moving to Lafayette County, FL before 1854. Sometime between 1860 and 1870 Joel T. ADAMS left his family behind and disappears from record. It is thought he went back to GA.
That is quite a lot of moving about...perhaps a learned trait from prior generations that left your John Adams literally "Home Alone". I will continue scanning my many diskettes which store my electronic notes on the ADAMS so hopefully I can offer you additional info on the SC ADAMS and how they trace back to the VA ADAMS.
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Lee, Thanks for the reply, you are absolutely correct, we tend to think that the early ones didn't travel much, now we are finding that NOT to be true. They really got around! As for John, no doubt they thought he was dead, hard to think they would abandon him. Course I know nothing much about this guy, (except he dropped from a space ship in 1802) possibly he wasn't the best kid on the block, and they did move off and leave him, LOL.(there is another oral tradition that said he was "trading with the Indians", that leads me to believe that it must have happen after they left VA) I do know that my grgrandfather(his grandson) went to OK during the land rush, and someone shot an Indian in front of him, he was so disgusted that he moved back to IL, he really was a kind man. He couldn't put up with that sort of ill treatment toward Indian, Black or anyone for that matter, he was known for that.....so... I say it came from somewhere in his background. I really do spin off , don't I...sorry...thanks again, and I hope to find a clue to this guy in your data, until then, Kitty
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The beginning of this "thread" was very interesting about river migration and would have loved to read more, however, half of the messages spun off and pertained to a John Adams family. Very disappointing.
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i am looking for info on martha adams carrigg. she married james carrigg and lived in south carolina. i'm having trouble finding her parents though because i don't know if they were from sc or not. james came from ireland through ny so he could have met her at. it's a long way from ny to sc.
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Swansie I couldn't agree with you more. I am really getting fed up with this sort of thing. Try looking in google for The Wilderness Trail. That trail and the Ohio river was the main means to get past the mountains. There is a good book by a man named Speed with that title. It contains several pages on the subject. Also, I understand that the Cinncinnati Public Library has a large section on the rivers, flatboat etec.
Carl
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