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From: "Bob Adams" <>
Subject: Re: Question about John Hobbs Adams
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:49:12 -0500
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If this is your line then John Adams II should be my John Hobbs Adams but he
died in 1815 and was the first white man buried in Letcher County, Kentucky.
I did have John Hobbs Sr. as the son of Benjamin Adams but DNA tests seems
to prove that I am wrong.

1 John Adams b: 1700 d: ABT 1765
+ Eva Smith\Schmidt
2 Peter B. F. Adams b: 11 MAR 1759 d: 8 JUN 1845
+ Jerusha Nancy Barlow b: ABT 1769
3 Elisha Smith Adams b: 13 SEP 1801 d: 23 JUN 1891
+ Mary Elizabeth Burkham Myers b: 29 MAY 1803 d: 2 OCT 1875

4 William Peter Adams b: 15 DEC 1828 d: 12 JUL 1900
+ Mary "Malvina" Hall b: 14 JUN 1833 d: 29 NOV 1859
2 John Adams II b: 1750 d: 1782
+ Winnifred Bussel b: 1750
3 John Adams II

Notes on John Hobbs Jr.

John and his brother moved their families from Virginia to Wilkes County,
North Carolina about 1770. They could have been following an older brother,
cousin, or uncle, Charles Adams, who already lived there.

John and his sons and two nephews (sons of brother William) moved from
Roaring River, Wilkes County, North Carolina to Floyd (Letcher) County,
Kentucky about 1805 and settled at the mouth of Pine Creek.

By 1806, settlement of eastern Kentucky was increasing to the point where
the main creeks had one or two families settled there. John Dixon on Elk
Creek, Isaac Whitaker and Henry Back on Rockhouse Creek, Samuel Lusk and
Peter Whitaker at Linefork, Stephen Caudill at the mouth of the Sandlick,
Mathias Kelly on the Cumberland River, Thomas Cowan on Cowan Creek, John G.
Brown on Dry Fork Creek, a man by the name of King on Kingdom Come Creek,
Benjamin Webb near the Kona area. John Adams and a group of over 60 kinfolk
and associates explored the wild woodlands of the North Fork and built a log
shelter at the mouth of Bottom Fork. Adams lived here until his death in
1815.

Old John of All was the first white man buried in Letcher County. There is
an article written about John and his descendants called "Old John of All
Came", by N. Baxter Jenkins, in The Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, Letcher
County, Kentucky, March 13, 1975.

"In Perry County Kentucky Deed Book 3, Page 83, there is a Commissioner's
Deed based on the Interlocutory Decree....between the heirs of John Adams,
deceased...." (in 1820, parts of Floyd County became Perry County, and in
1822 parts became Letcher County)

Henry Scalf, in his book "Kentucky's Last Frontier" also reports on the
settlement: "The Adams Colony on the headwaters of theKentucky River was
founded by Spencer Adams in 1803. Included in the settlement were his two
brothers John and Benjamin with their families, James Webb, his wife and
children, and several other families, the names and number not determined.
All of them moved from the Roaring River section of Wilkes County, North
Carolina. " F'S NOTE: When I read Scalf, I tried to rematch, but the ages of
the men listed in the 1810 census make the early settlers of
Floyd/LetcherCo. to be John Adams and SONS (not brothers), and probably a
brother to John: Spencer, as he is older than the others. He and the first
listed John are the only ones with slaves. Scalf did say that Spencer sold
or traded slaves. F.'s N0TE: John Adams (who was a leader of the early
settlement) had a son Stephen who moved to Morgan (1850) and Magoffin County
area. Stephen was father of William "Billy" Adams of Magoffin County, KY.
Norma Adams identified John Adams as "JOHN HOBBS ADAMS, JR. b. 1747 Fairfax,
VA; d. 1815 Floyd Co., KY


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From: "aj4ever" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:13 PM
Subject: Question about John Hobbs Adams


>I am a direct descendant of a John Adams, Sr., and one of his sons was a
>John Hobbs Adams, although not my line. I would like to know who John
>Hobbs Adams father was-----what's his name and where and when was he born.
>My ancestor was born around 1720 in Rowan Co., North Carolina. One of
>his sons was called John Adams, Jr. and my line was another son: Peter
>Adams later known as Peter B. F. Adams after moving to Kentucky.
> Sylvia (Adams) Heiney,
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