...Neither of the two most tantalizing bits of evidence on the Adair's pre-Virginia years - a grandson's statement that Benjamin Adair emigrated from England and the Baltimore County marriage license of Benjamin's son Philip, which shows the wedding ceremony was performed by a Swedenborgian (a follower of the Swedish philosopher-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg) - documents Scotch-Irish ties. Since data on the Adair's cultural affiliations during their early years in America are lacking, the relatively prolific information (mainly on Presbyterian church ties and on marriages to Scotch-Irish spouses) from the family's post-Maryland years becomes crucial to the delineating of the importance Scotch-Irish connections came to have for them.
After the family's move to Virginia, Benjamin Adair's daughter Martha married Daniel Lyle, and his son George married Margaret (Peggy) Ramsey. These marriages linked the Adairs with three Scotch-Irish families - the Ramseys, Lyles, and Keyes (Lyle in-laws) - who were among the earliest settlers in the Timber Ridge district, near present-day Lexington, Virginia.
