This page collects information about people with surname Adair who were known or believed to have lived in early Georgia.
The U.S. state of Georgia is divided into 159 counties, more than any other state except for Texas, which has 254 counties. Under the Georgia State Constitution, all of its counties are granted home rule to deal with problems that are purely local in nature. Also, eight consolidated city-counties have been established in Georgia: Athens–Clarke County, Augusta–Richmond County, Columbus–Muscogee County, Georgetown–Quitman County, Statenville–Echols County, Macon–Bibb County, Cusseta–Chattahoochee County, and Preston-Webster County.
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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 Georgia.
- 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 Georgia 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.
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Trail of Tears[]

Trail of Tears painting by Robert Lindneux
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west (usually west of the Mississippi River) that had been designated as Indian Territory. The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their new designated reserve, and many died before reaching their destinations. The forced removals included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Ponca nations. The phrase "Trail of Tears" originates from a description of the removal of many Native American tribes, including the infamous Cherokee Nation relocation in 1838.
Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee people (including mixed-race and black slaves who lived among them) were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the Southeastern United States, and relocated farther west. Those Native Americans who were relocated were forced to march to their destinations by state and local militias. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. Approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way.
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Adair by County[]
Georgia has 159 Counties:
- Adair in Appling County, Georgia
- Adair in Atkinson County, Georgia
- Adair in Bacon County, Georgia
- Adair in Baker County, Georgia
- Adair in Baldwin County, Georgia
- Adair in Banks County, Georgia
- Adair in Barrow County, Georgia
- Adair in Bartow County, Georgia
- Adair in Ben Hill County, Georgia
- Adair in Berrien County, Georgia
- Adair in Bibb County, Georgia
- Adair in Bleckley County, Georgia
- Adair in Brantley County, Georgia
- Adair in Brooks County, Georgia
- Adair in Bryan County, Georgia
- Adair in Bulloch County, Georgia
- Adair in Burke County, Georgia
- Adair in Butts County, Georgia
- Adair in Calhoun County, Georgia
- Adair in Camden County, Georgia
- Adair in Candler County, Georgia
- Adair in Carroll County, Georgia
- Adair in Catoosa County, Georgia
- Adair in Charlton County, Georgia
- Adair in Chatham County, Georgia
- Adair in Chattahoochee County, Georgia
- Adair in Chattooga County, Georgia
- Adair in Cherokee County, Georgia - Cherokee Nation, which controlled this part of the state autonomously until 1831
- Adair in Clarke County, Georgia
- Adair in Clay County, Georgia
- Adair in Clayton County, Georgia
- Adair in Clinch County, Georgia
- Adair in Cobb County, Georgia
- Adair in Coffee County, Georgia
- Adair in Colquitt County, Georgia
- Adair in Columbia County, Georgia
- Adair in Cook County, Georgia
- Adair in Coweta County, Georgia
- Adair in Crawford County, Georgia
- Adair in Crisp County, Georgia
- Adair in Dade County, Georgia
- Adair in Dawson County, Georgia
- Adair in Decatur County, Georgia
- Adair in DeKalb County, Georgia = Created from Henry, Gwinnett, and Fayette counties in 18222. Named for "Baron" Johann DeKalb (1721–1780) a German who accompanied Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, and was inspector general of the Colonial Army
- Adair in Dodge County, Georgia
- Adair in Dooly County, Georgia
- Adair in Dougherty County, Georgia -
- Adair in Douglas County, Georgia
- Adair in Early County, Georgia
- Adair in Echols County, Georgia
- Adair in Effingham County, Georgia
- Adair in Elbert County, Georgia
- Adair in Emanuel County, Georgia
- Adair in Evans County, Georgia
- Adair in Fannin County, Georgia
- Adair in Fayette County, Georgia
- Adair in Floyd County, Georgia
- Adair in Forsyth County, Georgia
- Adair in Franklin County, Georgia
- Adair in Fulton County, Georgia (Atlanta), formed in 1853, named for Hamilton Fulton (1781–1833), a Scottish civil and hydraulic engineer
- Adair in Gilmer County, Georgia
- Adair in Glascock County, Georgia
- Adair in Glynn County, Georgia
- Adair in Gordon County, Georgia
- Adair in Grady County, Georgia
- Adair in Greene County, Georgia
- Adair in Gwinnett County, Georgia
- Adair in Habersham County, Georgia
- Adair in Hall County, Georgia
- Adair in Hancock County, Georgia
- Adair in Haralson County, Georgia
- Adair in Harris County, Georgia
- Adair in Hart County, Georgia
- Adair in Heard County, Georgia
- Adair in Henry County, Georgia
- Adair in Houston County, Georgia
- Adair in Irwin County, Georgia
- Adair in Jackson County, Georgia
- Adair in Jasper County, Georgia
- Adair in Jeff Davis County, Georgia
- Adair in Jefferson County, Georgia
- Adair in Jenkins County, Georgia
- Adair in Johnson County, Georgia
- Adair in Jones County, Georgia
- Adair in Lamar County, Georgia
- Adair in Lanier County, Georgia
- Adair in Laurens County, Georgia
- Adair in Lee County, Georgia
- Adair in Liberty County, Georgia
- Adair in Lincoln County, Georgia
- Adair in Long County, Georgia
- Adair in Lowndes County, Georgia
- Adair in Lumpkin County, Georgia
- Adair in Macon County, Georgia
- Adair in Madison County, Georgia
- Adair in Marion County, Georgia
- Adair in McDuffie County, Georgia
- Adair in McIntosh County, Georgia
- Adair in Meriwether County, Georgia
- Adair in Miller County, Georgia
- Adair in Mitchell County, Georgia
- Adair in Monroe County, Georgia
- Adair in Montgomery County, Georgia
- Adair in Morgan County, Georgia
- Adair in Murray County, Georgia - form in 1832 from Cherokee County, Named for Thomas W. Murray (1790 – 1832), famous state legislator.
- Adair in Mucogee County, Georgia
- Adair in Newton County, Georgia
- Adair in Oconee County, Georgia
- Adair in Oglethorpe County, Georgia
- Adair in Paulding County, Georgia
- Adair in Peach County, Georgia
- Adair in Pickens County, Georgia
- Adair in Pierce County, Georgia
- Adair in Pike County, Georgia
- Adair in Polk County, Georgia
- Adair in Pulaski County, Georgia
- Adair in Putnam County, Georgia
- Adair in Quitman County, Georgia
- Adair in Rabun County, Georgia
- Adair in Randolph County, Georgia
- Adair in Richmond County, Georgia
- Adair in Rockdale County, Georgia
- Adair in Schley County, Georgia
- Adair in Screven County, Georgia
- Adair in Seminole County, Georgia
- Adair in Spalding County, Georgia
- Adair in Stephens County, Georgia
- Adair in Stewart County, Georgia
- Adair in Sumter County, Georgia
- Adair in Talbot County, Georgia
- Adair in Taliaferro County, Georgia
- Adair in Tattnall County, Georgia
- Adair in Taylor County, Georgia
- Adair in Telfair County, Georgia
- Adair in Terrell County, Georgia
- Adair in Thomas County, Georgia
- Adair in Tift County, Georgia
- Adair in Toombs County, Georgia
- Adair in Towns County, Georgia
- Adair in Treutlen County, Georgia
- Adair in Troup County, Georgia
- Adair in Turner County, Georgia
- Adair in Twiggs County, Georgia
- Adair in Union County, Georgia
- Adair in Upson County, Georgia
- Adair in Walker County, Georgia
- Adair in Walton County, Georgia
- Adair in Ware County, Georgia
- Adair in Warren County, Georgia
- Adair in Washington County, Georgia
- Adair in Wayne County, Georgia
- Adair in Webster County, Georgia
- Adair in Wheeler County, Georgia
- Adair in White County, Georgia
- Adair in Whitfield County, Georgia
- Adair in Wilcox County, Georgia
- Adair in Wilkes County, Georgia
- Adair in Wilkinson County, Georgia
- Adair in Worth County, Georgia