I have 2 sets of ADAIRs: one from County Down, NI who settled in Oakland, Garrett, MD and married into the MARTIN family (Mary Adair m. Joseph Martin (my 3ggf) in 1836 and Ellen Adair Graham m. Thomas Martin (son of Joseph and Joseph's first wife) in 1870. the other group is in SC, living in Old 96th District in 1779. Mary Adair m. William Bourland 1750 (my 5th ggparents) thought I'd toss this into the conversation to possibly connect with cousins. Thanks! Beth

Beth, did any of your SC folks pop over the state line in Franklin County, GA? I've been working on a project with a shirt-tail cousin who actually connects with several lines of both my maternal and paternal lines as well as my husband's people in Franklin County, Spartanburg County and Old 96. There are several Martins on the tax rolls in Franklin in the early 1800s associated with the Bryan Ward most people cite as Nancy Ward's husband, although I haven't proved that for myself. Other names associated with this group are my husband's Dosses out of Pittsylvania County, VA to SC along with associated Webb, Nix, and Gibson families. Across the line in on the 1790 census in Spartanburg County SC are trader Alexander Dromgoole, Ellis Harlin, Ezekiel Buffington, a number of Lowreys, some Vanns, Vann Walker, Thorntons, Fields, my mother-in-law's several 3rd great grandfather and great uncles Christopher Vandergrift and his sons and brothers plus more Dosses. Other names connected to the Cherokee appear such as Jolly, Whitmire, Mayfiled, Gunter, Ellege, Rider, Shelton, Blithe, Thompson (close to Rider which would make sense since David Thompson married Austin Rider's daughter), and Guest/Guess. A number of names connected to the Choctaw and Chickasaw also appear - Logan, Bohannon, Gentry (adopted Chickasaws who also married into the Cherokee), Little. It was an absolute unexpected bonus to find my more direct lines - Webb, Doss, Nix, especially Austin Webb, my 6th great grandfather who should not have been in Franklin County, but owned land there - and Christopher Vandergrift and co. Those are lines I've been working on to prove out to begin with (Vandergrifts go back to New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s and Cynthia Vandergrift, my mother-in-law's great grandmother married Samuel Houston Byram, who was a Mayflower descendant through John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, two very old colonial lineages!) and the stories of Cherokee blood in those lines are common. This places them in the midst of names who associated intimately with the Cherokee, so there may be a small grain of truth for at least friendship or business associations and possibly marriage connections. Somewhere in there I seem to remember some Bourlands who are also associated with the Chickasaws. But my tired brain just won't pull that info up! ​Happy time travels, Susan​