General Notes

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Family History In McAdams File
Marshall County History Quarterly Fall 1977
Will Orange County N Carolina  Vol 8 Page 36
James McAdams was an early settler of Orange County, North Carolina. Ac
co rding to the 1755 tax list he had one white poll (33).  In May 17
78 he w as appointed to value the property for Orange District (34).  In N
ovemb er 1778 he was appointed to attend the next court (35).  In Februa
ry 17 79 he was one of the jurors selected to lay off a new road between O
ran ge Old Court House to the Guilford Road (36).  The value of his prop
er ty in that year was 1,153 pounds (37).  He was the recipient of a la
nd gra nt on 3 September 1779 (38), and the next year he was one of tho
se select ed to work on the road (39).  In both 1780 and 1782 he was a jur
or (40
He owned 350 acres of land and had 2 white polls and 1 black po
ll in 17 90 (41).  On 15 February 1797 he sold land to Joseph McAdams (42
). In h is will dated 30 April 1806 and proved in February 1807, he mentio
ned h is wife Rebeckah, sons James McAdams and James Hopkins, and his gran
dson A bsalom.  The reference to his son James Hopkins was probably to h
is son-in -law.  The executors were his sons Joseph and James, and the wit
nesses we re James McAdams, Jr., and William Crutch- field.
Rebecca McAdams left a will dated 3 October 1808 which was proved in Au
gu st 1809 in which she made bequests to her son James, his daughter Rebe
cc a, and her daughters Egness McAdams and Elizabeth Blair (43).
The McAdams Family by Descendants in Marshall County Tennessee Pa
ge 8 3 3. "Orange County, North Carolina 1755 Tax Lists,"  American Herita
ge Serv ice Quarterly, I (Number 3) p. 188 ff 34. Alma Cheek Redden, Abstr
ac ts of the Minutes of the Interior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessio
ns of Ora nge County, NC 1777-1778 (Charlotte: Artistic Letter ship, n. d
.) Pt 1, 2 -3 1/2. 35. Redden, Pt 1, 21-42 36. Redden, Pt 1, 30-61 1/2 3
7. "Orange Co unty 1779 Tax List," North Carolina Genealogy, XV, (summer 1
969), 2360 3 8. Orange County, North Carolina Deed Book 2, p. 84 39. Redde
n, Pt 1, 43- 86 1/2. 40. Redden, Pt 1, 46-92 and pt 2, 12-140 41. Walter C
lark, the Sta te Records of North Carolina, Vol XXVI: Census 1790, Nam
es of Heads of Fam ilies (Goldsboro: Nash Brothers, 1905) 1287.  (This li
st of tax payers tak en by Andrew Murdock must be substituted for the miss
ing 1790 census sched ules). 42. Orange County, North Carolina Deed Book 1
3, p. 215 43. Ruth Her ndon Shields, "Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Oran
ge County, North Carolin a, 1752-1800 and 202 Marriages Not Shown in the O
range County Marriage Bon ds and Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange Cou
nty, North Carolina 1800-1 850" (Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Co., I
nc., 1972) pp. 31 and 39.