Simon
Adams
Born in Fairfax County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of William Adams
and Anne (Lawyer) Adams
Brother of
Anne (Adams) Minor, Samuel Adams, Sarah (Adams) Watters, William Adams, Edward Adams, Margaret (Adams) Childs, Susannah (Adams) Wren, John Adams and Wesley Adams
Husband of
Catherine (Wren) Adams
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
William Adams
Died
at about age 59
in Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Apr 2011
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Biography
Simon Adams served with Virginia Line during the American Revolution.
Simon Adams is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A000728.
Simon Adams was born 1750 in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was the son of Col William Adams and Ann Lawyer Adams. [1] He migrated to Shelby County, KY, with his wife and young son William Adams establishing a large plantation home there. Simon Adams died while traveling on his way back to his home in Shelby County, KY, after liquidating his assets in Fairfax, Virginia. At the Cumberland Gap area, he was robbed and murdered as noted in the article sourced in the "Kentucky Ancestors," Image 46 of 60, Endnote, #5: "Modern genealogists consider the place of Adams’ murder to be present-day Pineville, Bell County, Ky., a few miles north of the Cumberland Gap." [2]
Daughters of the American Revolution Records
- ADAMS, SIMON (Revolutionary War Service ) [3]
- Ancestor #: A000728
- Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PRIVATE
- Birth: 1750
- Death: 1809
- Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #1000
- Service Description: 1) CAPT WEST, COLS STEVENS,GREEN & RUSSELL 2) 10TH & 6TH REGTS
- COMMENTS: 1) MOVED TO KY 1786
- RESIDENCE: 1) County: FAIRFAX CO - State: VIRGINIA
- SPOUSE: 1) CATHERINE WREN
Sources
- ↑ Simon Adams, ID #I051354, https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I051361&tree=Tree1, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Accessed 8 Oct 2019
- ↑ "Simon Adams’ Account Book, Shelby County, 1798–1802," Kentucky Ancestors, Kentucky Historical Society, V. 42, #1, pp. 39-44, https://history.ky.gov/pdf/Publications/KHS_Ancestors_v42_n1.pdf ( p. 44, Endnote #5 death location) Accessed 10 May 2018.
- ↑ Simon Adams, Revolutionary War Service, DAR Records , https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A000728.
- Pineville, Bell County, KY. Mapquest," https://www.mapquest.com/us/kentucky/pineville-ky-282023020. Accessed 8 Oct 2019
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- Edward Adams
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #834488
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~0.78%
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