This page collects information about people with surname Adair who were known or believed to have lived in early Alabama.
The U.S. state of Alabama has 67 counties.[1] Each county serves as the local level of government within its borders. The land enclosed by the present state borders was joined to the United States of America gradually. Following the American Revolutionary War, West Florida was ceded to Spain by treaty while the remainder was organized primarily as the Mississippi Territory, and later the Alabama Territory.[2] The territorial assembly established some of the earliest county divisions that have survived to the present, including the earliest county formation, that of Washington County, created on June 4, 1800.[3] In 1814, the Treaty of Fort Jackson opened the territory to American settlers, which in turn led to a more rapid rate of county creation. Alabama was admitted to the Union as the 22nd state in 1819.[4] The Alabama state legislature formed additional counties from former native lands as the Indian Removal Act took effect and settlers populated different areas of Alabama.[5] In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903.[6] Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903.[3]
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- See Also Adair Family
Adairs of Laurens County[]
- James Adair in the Ninety-Six District - Research Notes for this family
The family of Scotch-Irish Immigrant Thomas Adair (c1680-c1740) who arrived with 3 sons in the 1730s, landing first in Pennsylvania and then moving to South Carolina. Many American Adair's descend from this group. They also intermarried into several native American tribes and some became leaders in the Cherokee Tribe that passed thru Alabama.
- Thomas Adair (c1680-c1740)/list of notable descendants,
- Adair in Laurens County, South Carolina
- Adair in Chester County, South Carolina
- Adair in Adair County, Oklahoma
- Adair in Washington County, Utah - Several descendants joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Alabama and Mississippi in the 1840s and were leaders of the Cotton Mission to Southern Utah.
- James Adair (1714-1796) immigrant, explorer and author
- William Penn Adair (1830-1880) - second chief of the Cherokee nation, Colonel of Second Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, Confederate Army Cavalry, U.S. Civil War and the person for whom Will Rogers was named.
Other Notable Adairs[]
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Adair by County[]
Alabama has 67 Counties:
- Adair in Autauga County, Alabama - from The Autauga or Atagi people, Native Americans who were a sub-group of the Alibamu
- Adair in Baldwin County, Alabama
- Adair in Barbour County, Alabama
- Adair in Bibb County, Alabama
- Adair in Blount County, Alabama
- Adair in Bullock County, Alabama
- Adair in Butler County, Alabama
- Adair in Calhoun County, Alabama
- Adair in Chambers County, Alabama
- Adair in Cherokee County, Alabama - from Cherokee Nation people, whose lands included Northeast Alabama
- Adair in Chilton County, Alabama
- Adair in Choctaw County, Alabama
- Adair in Clarke County, Alabama
- Adair in Clay County, Alabama
- Adair in Cleburne County, Alabama
- Adair in Coffee County, Alabama
- Adair in Colbert County, Alabama
- Adair in Conecuh County, Alabama
- Adair in Coosa County, Alabama
- Adair in Covington County, Alabama
- Adair in Crenshaw County, Alabama
- Adair in Cullman County, Alabama
- Adair in Dale County, Alabama
- Adair in Dallas County, Alabama
- Adair in DeKalb County, Alabama
- Adair in Elmore County, Alabama
- Adair in Escambia County, Alabama
- Adair in Etowah County, Alabama
- Adair in Fayette County, Alabama
- Adair in Franklin County, Alabama
- Adair in Geneva County, Alabama
- Adair in Greene County, Alabama
- Adair in Hale County, Alabama
- Adair in Henry County, Alabama
- Adair in Houston County, Alabama
- Adair in Jackson County, Alabama
- Adair in Jefferson County, Alabama
- Adair in Lamar County, Alabama
- Adair in Lauderdale County, Alabama
- Adair in Lawrence County, Alabama
- Adair in Lee County, Alabama
- Adair in Limestone County, Alabama
- Adair in Lowndes County, Alabama
- Adair in Macon County, Alabama
- Adair in Madison County, Alabama
- Adair in Marengo County, Alabama
- Adair in Marion County, Alabama
- Adair in Marshall County, Alabama
- Adair in Mobile County, Alabama
- Adair in Monroe County, Alabama
- Adair in Montgomery County, Alabama
- Adair in Morgan County, Alabama
- Adair in Perry County, Alabama
- Adair in Pickens County, Alabama - Formed in 1820 from Tuscaloosa County, Named for Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), General in the American Revolutionary War.
- Adair in Pike County, Alabama
- Adair in Randolph County, Alabama
- Adair in Russell County, Alabama
- Adair in St. Clair County, Alabama
- Adair in Shelby County, Alabama
- Adair in Sumter County, Alabama
- Adair in Talladega County, Alabama
- Adair in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
- Adair in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Adair in Walker County, Alabama
- Adair in Washington County, Alabama
- Adair in Wilcox County, Alabama
- Adair in Winston County, Alabama
See Also[]
References[]
- ^ "List of Alabama Counties" (in en). October 23, 2018. https://www.bamapolitics.com/alabama/counties/.
- ^ "Alabama History Timeline, 1701–1800". Alabama Department of Archives and History. http://www.archives.state.al.us/timeline/al1702.html.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedNACO - ^ "Alabama History Timeline, 1801–1860". Alabama Department of Archives and History. http://www.archives.state.al.us/timeline/al1801.html.
- ^ "Alabama Counties: Cherokee". Alabama Department of Archives and History. http://www.archives.state.al.us/counties/cherokee.html.
- ^ Foscue, Virginia O. (1989) Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X