Person:Adam Varner (1)

Acquisition of Land

• December 24, 1799 Adam was granted a land patent in Pendleton County on 300 acres on Bushy Fork. [Source: http://mcclure.freeservers.com/varner.htm]

Information on Adam Varner

Adam Varner and Christina settled in Virginia where several, if not all, of their children were born. Records of Shenandoah County, Virginia show the birth of their son John on September 2, 1772. Adam is named in a list of tithables in Augusta County, Virginia in April 1782. His family shows one white tithable over 21 and one white tithable over 16 years of age. Three horses and nine head of cattle were listed as his taxable property. We have been told Adam also appears on the 1785 tithables list with two horses and eight head of cattle, and that his son Adam, Jr. is listed below his father as a white tithable under the age of 21 years.

Adam apparently settled in Pendleton County, Virginia about 1785, according to an account in History of Highland County by Oren F. Morton, 1911, that says Adam had settled near the county line on Bushy Fork. Children listed in the account are Joseph, Peter, George, Conrad, Jane, John, Catharine, Abraham and Regina.

Sources

http://mcclure.freeservers.com/varner.htm