Facts and Events
Records in Virginia
- At a court continued and held for Russell County April the 19th 1787.
- Present: Alexander Barnett, Henry Smith, Andrew Cowan, Samuel Ritchie and Gents John Thompson Ordered that the overseers of the poor bind Sally and Jonathan Adams Infant orphans of Jesse Adams deceased apprentices to Joseph Blakemore according to law. (Order Book 1-30)
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 2 - Blackmore vs. Adams--O. S. 110; N. S. 38--Bill in Lee County, 1806. Orators are Jonathan and Sarah Adams, Joseph Blakemore, grandfather of Jonathan and Sarah (father of their mother, Molly Adams), gave Molly a negro. Their father, Adams, was killed by Indians. Afterwards Molly was married (but illegally) to Henry Hamlin. Molly had brothers, Joseph and Wm. Blakemore, and sisters Hannah and Susan. Molly had a daughter, Cynthea Chadwell, half-sister to orators. Hannah above became Hannah Bird.
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