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1. On file is a photo of the following marriage record. The record is significant since it is the oldest record we have of our Adair family in America. It is the marriage record of Joseph Adare (Adair) and Sarah Lafferty in Sep 1747 in the Old Swede's Church in Wilmington, Delaware. It is strongly presumed (in my case: certain) that Joseph was the brother of James Adair who married Eleanor. Together they are in the early records of Laurens Co., SC in the 1760s. James is the father to Joseph who marries Sarah ___ who in turn have Thomas Adair who marries Rebecca Brown. Joseph in the marriage record is shortly thereafter in Pennsylvania in the early 1850's then to South Carolina. The Adair family may have come to America then through Delaware. There is no provable link thus far overseas.
The name Lafferty is interesting because using LDS temple records from the St. George Temple in Utah, James above probably had a son named Lafferty Adair in honor evidently of his sister-in-law. The records show Samuel Jefferson Adair, grandson to Joseph (son of James above), doing a baptism by proxy for the dead 14 Feb 1877. Samuel lists himself as a grand nephew in the baptismal record making Lafferty the son of the original James and ties the two original Laurens Co. brothers Joseph and James by the use of the name Lafferty both as surname and prename.
If you also look at the top middle of the page, you will find a Jane Adair marrying Hugh Ramage. The surname Ramage also occurs in Laurens Co., SC in colonial times associated with the Adairs; however, I have not yet researched a Hugh Ramage specifically but so far find no information on him. We cannot yet connect Jane Adair, but there is a chance she could be a sister - but that is speculation thus far.
The church has website at http://www.oldswedes.org/ It has a very interesting story and is still in service since colonial days.
Cousin Jett Hanna reports: "The church was one of the few in the area that serviced new immigrants-mostly "Scotch-Irish" at the time-because it's members were technically dissenters like the Presbyterians since they were Swedish protestants. They got along just fine with Presbyterians who were mostly passing through to somewhere else."
The source is at LDS FHL SLC was "Robert Adair 1770-1845 (An Adair Family History); In Memory of Oscar Lee Adair (1899-1975)," compiled by Shirley Brown Adair, 309 Dartbrook, Rockwall, Texas, 75087, (214) 771-2662. Copyright March 1995. FHL 929.273 Ad11as.
Rebecca Garrett Patterson is the researcher who found the record but date not stated nor her address or email.
2. In the note above I make reference to an LDS temple record for Laferty Adair. Here is more of my analysis, which was part of a response to Shawn Potter in May 2024 on his suggestion that Laferty may have been a son of Joseph1 Adair, and not his brother James1 Adair, which is our ancestor, and who I purport to be his father. The quote:
"Your most recent email proposed Laferty Adair to be instead the son of Joseph1 rather than James1. Relooking at my original data, I do not concur with this conclusion. The LDS St. George temple entry calls out Samuel Jefferson(4)'s relationship to Laferty as "Gd. Nephew," not "Grt. Nephew," which is a big difference. This single record is all the documentation we have to work with.
"I already sent you the St. George Temple data I extracted in a recent email. Here is my current thinking. I contacted LDS experts on the nature of the temple work that was done in that era in Utah. The St. George Temple, when it opened in early January 1877, was the first temple in Utah in which the Latter-day Saints performed vicarious ordinance ceremonies for deceased relatives, which included Lauren County Adairs for the first time. Very importantly, in St. George in 1877, the vicarious work on behalf of the dead had to be direct ancestors on a traditional tree, which could however include additional spouses and immediate children of each direct ancestor. The LDS experts further confirm that it has just been in the last couple decades of modern times that the LDS Church practice has evolved to include multi-generational downlines of direct ancestors (which would be what Laferty's relationship was if your interpretation was correct), but such modern practice was definitely not in place in the 1800s and 1900s. So Laferty2, to be done by Samuel Jefferson3 Adair in 1877, had to meet that qualification. That, then, would not have been the case with your proposal of Joseph1 being Laferty's father. Furthermore, the records of the temple ordinances were recorded by only one clerk, which indicates consistency of his recordkeeping notations. In all of the other ordinances I transcribed, the recorder consistently used "Gd." to refer to "Grand," as in the grandparent generation. For instance, when Samuel Jefferson4 and his brother George Washington4 Adair (assisted by George's wife) acted in the ordinances on behalf of the two brothers' grandparents Joseph2 (James1 the historian's son) and his wife Sarah, the recorder spelled out Samuel as "Grandson," George as "Gd. Son," and George's wife as "Gd. Dau. in Law." I don't believe the recorder intended anything else than exactly what is stated.
"Assuming then that James1 named his son Laferty in honor of the maiden name of the wife Sarah Laferty of his brother Joseph1, it of course confirms the familial relationship between James and Joseph, which your book confirms by different means. It also suggests Laferty was born sometime after the Adair-Laferty marriage, which occurred before 1735, most likely in Pennsylvania. For Samuel, who was born in 1806, to remember Laferty in 1877 may suggest Laferty lived beyond 1806 into Samuel's youth."
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
d. From 25 Feb 1784 to 12 Feb 1796, of, Laurens, South Carolina, United States