Re: MARY STAMPER-JACOB ADAMS
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Re: MARY STAMPER-JACOB ADAMS
8/16/00
ADAMS FAMILIES Of Southeast Kentucky, Page 58 by
Dorothy A. Griffith and Robert E. Parker, 1986...
indicates that Jacob Adams enlisted as a private in the First Regiment of Maryland's Continental Line.There is
also evidence that he served in Virginia military units.
"Jacob's military service may have taken him to North Carolina where, on January 7, 1777, he married Mary "Polly" (Stamper) Towsin, a young widow with two baby daughters.The ceremony took place in Rowan County and was recorded in the courthouse at Salisbury.
Polly Stamper was born about 1756, probably a daughter of Jonathan Stamper.About 1773 she married Thomas Towsin, who is accounted for in Surry County's list of taxables.
Towsin has 1 poll and is in Benjamin Cleveland's district.He and Polly had two daughters, Polly and Becky, before he died, apparently in 1776.It is not known whether he was a casualty of the Revolution.
Jacob and Mary (Stamper-Towsin) Adams may have lived five years or more in Rowan County, where Jacob's eldest brother, John Adams, also lived.However, Jacob Adams's name first appears in Wilkes County's tax list for 1784;After that, his name does show annually in tax lists as well as censuses.His family settled on Roaring River, where the rest of his family lived, but he was the only brother who did not go to Kentucky.
In the 1787 cnesus his household consisted of him and Polly, two Towsin girls and the couple's two sons, Abraham, who was born in 1778, and Isaac, who was born in 1780.In the 1790 census they had two more sons, Jacob Jr. who was born March 127, 1887 and Spencer Adams, who9 was born June 19, 1790.
Jacob Adams was a successful planter.His plantation was on South Fork of Roaring River.
In later life, Jacob Adams reportedly moved to Reddies River, where Polly 9Stamper)Adams died in 1823.He died there in October, 1833.She was sixty seven years old while he was eighty when he died.
All of their known sons and a daughter married,had families, and all of them moved to Missouri, some by way of Tennessee."
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