General Notes

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Adam Varner and his wife Eve were first discovered in Bucks County, Pennsylvania records.  Later they moved to Whitley Township, Green County.  In a widely-circulated, old family letter, Isaac Daniel Varner wrote to a grandchild, "Well Now I will try and answer your questions .  Your Grandfather Varner's name was Joseph and your Grand Mother's name was Lucy.  Her maiden name was Andrews.  A Half-sister to Tom Andrews.  Your Great Grand Father Varner's name was John, and his wife's name was Sarah.  Her maiden name was Moore.  Your Great, great Grand Father Varner's name was Adam, and his wife's name was Eve.  He lived to be one hundred and one, grandpa was a dutchman from Germany".  He signed the letter, "I.D. Varner."

According to oral family history, Adam Varner had a brother named, Peter (b. ca. 1734, d. ca . 1833), who died at the age of 99 years.  Peter Varner is said to have been a companion of Daniel Boone, the famous explorer.  Peter Varner went with Boone and Wetzel (the Indian fighter), and "settled a colony at Booneville."  History records that Danie Boone was born in 1734 to a Quaker family and was raised in Berks County, Pennsylvania.  In 1750, Boone's father m oved the family to the frontier country along the Yadkin River in North Carolina.  In the yea r 1775, Daniel Boone set out with a party of thirty woodsmen, intent on widening the Indian t rail and establishing a route to the Kentucky wilderness so that settlers could move in an in habit the interior.  Afterwards, the men built a forth south of the present-day town of Lexington, Kentucky and called it, "Boonesborough."  Apparently Peter Varner was one of Boone's thirty woodsmen.

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