John Kirby, second son of the Richard Kirby who migrated to Tennessee, had some opportunity to become acquainted with the Adair (or Addair) family of Christiansburg, in Montgomery Co., Virginia. He was not only able to woo their daughter Jane to become his bride in 1791, but also set up sufficient contact for his younger sister Betsey to later marry Thomas Addair. (It must be noted that the time frame of John’s marriage in Virginia corresponds to the same the time the rest of the Richard Kirby clan is in North Carolina.) John’s family moved to Blount County, Tennessee, and to Jackson County, Alabama, but those moves may have been later than those of his father and brothers.
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