Family:William Adams and Nancy Chinn (1)

Research Notes

• Possibly married in Bardstown?

1. ↑ .

   "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5ZD-7LH : accessed 20 September 2018), Christ Chinn in entry for William Adams and Nancy Chinn, 13 Feb 1804; citing Nelson, Kentucky, United States, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond; FHL microfilm 9,665.
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   Name: William Adams
   Event Type: Marriage
   Event Date: 13 Feb 1804
   Event Place: Nelson, Kentucky, United States
   Gender: Male
   Spouse's Name: Nancy Chinn
   Spouse's Gender: Female
   Spouse's Father's Name: Christ Chinn
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   [Note: Walker Baylor, guardian of Nancy Chinn, gives consent and brother Benjamin Chinn signs as a witness.]

2.   Boyd, Lucinda Joan Rodgers. The Irvines and Their Kin (1898): A History of the Irvine Family and Their Descendants. (Louisville, Kentucky: Printed for the Author, 1898)
   84.

   [James and Mary Irvine Adams]
   "... their youngest son, William Adams, married Nancy Chinn, a daughter of Benjamin Chinn [sic], and a cousin of Judge Thomas Chinn, of Kentucky. William Adams (born December 10, 1784), and Nancy Chinn (born December 11, 1785), were married February 14, 1803, and had seven children, viz.:
   - Mary J. Adams, born January 17, 1804;
   - Christopher Adams, Jr., born October 22, 1805;
   - William Clark and Lewis Merewether Adams, twins, born June 30, 1809;
   - Benjamin Chinn Adams, born October 2, 1814;
   - Elizabeth Adams, born August 2, 1817;
   - Penelope Lynch Adams, born June 15, 1819. ..."
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   [cos1776 Note: error - father of Nancy Chinn is Christopher Chinn. See marriage record.]

3.   "Sketch of the Irvine Family of Madison County, Kentucky" by Sophie Fox Sea, 3 (May 1905):87-93, in Genealogies of Kentucky Families: from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981)
   1:570.

   "... Wm. Irvine Adams, son of James and Mary Adams, married Nancy Chinn, daughter of Christopher Chinn, of Nelson county, Ky. ..."