Individual Details

Jesse was not in good standing with the Quakers of Cane Creek when he married Mary Wells. He did receive membership 2 Jul 1787 at Deep River Meeting. When they moved to the waters of the Nolichucky in Tennessee he was received along with his six sons at New Hope Meeting. They helped establish Lost Creek Meeting in 1797.

Married in the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting (Orange Co, now Alamance Co NC)
From Cane Creek MM:
1777, 3, 1: Mary, formerly Wells dismissed for marrying out of unity.
1785, 5, 7 Mary condemend her marrying out of unity.
1785, 9, 8 Mary granted certificate to Deep River Monthly Meeting.

2 Jul 1787 Jesse Adamson and sons John and Joseph, of Muddy Creek, were received into membership at Deep River [Guilford Co NC] of their own request. Charity and Margaret were received the same day by request of their mother Mary.

1790 Census. Stokes Co NC
Jesse Adamson: 1male over age 21, 4m under 16, 3 females.

Lost Creek MM: Jesse Adamson & sons, John, Joseph, William, Simon, Wells, and Jesse, from Deep River were received at NewHope, Greene Co TN prior to setting up of Lost Creek in Jefferson Co TN, on 12th month, 26th day, 1795.

22 Nov 1800 at Lost Creek: Jesse Adamson "disowned for unbecoming language"


I have also seen daughters named Elizabeth and Mary "Polly" in various databases. The birth years and birth order are from an online database. No proof offered but furnished a reasonable framework. However, I've found nothing further on an Elizabeth.

I'm not sure that any Polly [or Mary] fits in the family. She is said to have married Stephen Hopkins, 21 Oct 1806, Lebanon, Wilson Co, TN. He died 4 Aug 1844, Fayette Co, Illinois. The problem is that there is also a marriage for a Simon Adamson to a Susannah Hopkins and this does not seem to be the Simon who was a son of Jesse since he married Sarah Cox and is with a Sarah in 1850 and 1860. The marriage to Sarah Cox is three months after the marriage to Susannah Hopkins, both said to be in Lebanon - however, the Tennessee State Marriages online at Ancestry, show that "S." Adamson married Susannah Hopkins in Wilson Co, while Simon Adamson married Sarah Cox in Jefferson Co. There are other possible explanations - sometimes "intentions" to marry are just that and the marriage doesn't take place. Evidence from descendants is that we may have two Simons living in Wilson Co, circa 1800-1810.



From FamilyTree on Ancestry.com:
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(Sons of Simon Sr. and Margaret Patterson Adamson)--Thomas, Byrd, Jesse T., Enos, Simon J.
Note: There seems to have been NO son named Byrd - it may have been handed down in the family as a nickname for Thomas, but there is not record in Jefferson Co TN for any Adamson named Byrd... Also there is no proof of the name of Simon Sr and other sources suggest she was Mary, not Margarent/

A careful study of the early Quaker records of North Carolina and Tennessee, as found, in volume one of Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy indicates that there may have been several Adamson brothers living in Jefferson County, west Tennessee, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Some of them were good enough to get into the fold, and bad enough to get kicked out again. But Rachel Adamson's hard-boiled, hard-headed, stiff-necked husband Byrd was never repentent enough of his sins to ask for membership. Consequently his name never appears on the church records.
Note: Rachel Williams was the wife of Thomas Adamson. The marriage record exists in Jefferson Co TN and he named her as Rachel in his will.

John, and Jesse, and Simon, Sr. were all at one time or another Quakers in good standing to the Lost Creek Monthly Meeting. In as much as Jesse and Enos were neighbors in Stokes County, N. C. in 1790 and in as much as John had a son Enos born in Jefferson County, Tennessee, in 1790, one may be pardoned for suggesting the possibility that there may have been at least five Adamson brothers living in the French ____ community of Jefferson County, West Tennessee 140 to 160.

These five brothers, as indicated by census records, by Quaker records, and by family tradition were: 1) Byrd; 2)Enos; 3) Jesse; 4) John; and 5) Simon. Those who are interested are invited to make further research on this possibility. This hypothesis is, however, is not to be accepted as factual until further records are discovered to confirm it. [My Note: Jonathan omitted and "Byrd" was actually Thomas.]

Early in 1777, Mary Wells, of the Cane Creek Meeting in Chatham County, N. C. married Jesse T. Adamson, "out of unity", without consent of the Meeting. Promptly at the first monthly meeting thereafter, Marach 1, 1777, she was called to account, and was disowned. Eight years later this family removed to Muddy Creek. Mary wanted to be in good standing with the Quaker community at Deep River, so, on May 7, 1785, she publicly condemned her marriage out of unity and was reinstated. On September 9, 1785, she was given a certificate to the Deep River Monthly Meeting.

July 2, 1787, Jesse Adamson and his sons John and Joseph of Muddy Creek, were received into membership at Deep River at their own request. The same date Charity and Margaret were received on request of their mother Mary. Mary Wells Adamson, incidentally, was a member of Deep River Meeting for just ten years. She was received on her certificate from Cane Creek Sept 3, 1795. Ten years later she lost favor for some reason we do not know about and was disowned on Jan. 5, 1796. In 1790, the census record shows that this family was composed of one male adult (Jesse T. Adamson), four sons under 16, who were John, Joseph, William and Simon Wells, and three free white females, who were Mary, Charity, and Margaret.

To continue the Quaker fortunes of this family, we find Jesse receiving a letter to New Hope of Green County, Tenn., Sept. 7 1795. Unrepentent Mary was either dead or still outcast. For when the family arrived at New Hope, Dec. 26, 1795, neither her name or the girl's names were mentioned. Jesse and children, John, Joseph, William, Simon Wells, and Jesse, received on certificate from Deep River Monthly Meeting, dated Sept 7, 1795.

From: The Adamson Source Book, Part 1, Page 20. (database on-line). Provo, Utah: the Generations Network, Inc. 2004. Original data: Dixon, Ben F. The Adamson Source book: a genealogy of the descendants of Rachel Williams Adamson (1776-1850) of Surry County N.C., Jefferson County, Tenn., and Lawrence County, Indiana: with an addendum of miscellaneous historical material on the name Adamson. San Diego, Calif, unknown, 1960.

Tennessee Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008
Wilson County Wills, 1824-1832, p. 253
In the name of God Amen. I Jesse Adamson of Wilson County & State of Tennessee being in sound mind and perfect memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth. First I commit to Soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried as my executors shall think fit. First Item. I gve and bequeath unto my wife Mary Adamson one sorrel mare, one side saddle, one feather bed and furniture, one cow and five head of hogs, her choise. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Charity Huff one dollar. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son John Adamson one dollar. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Marget Pugh one feather bed and furniture. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Joseph Adamson one dollar. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William Adamson one dollar. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Wells Adamson one dollar. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Jessee Adamson one dollar. I give unto my beloved daughter Mary Hopkins one feather Bed and furniture. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Williams one dollar. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son Elijah Adamson one dollar and Further more it is my will that all of my remaining estate be Sold by my executors and equally divided between my beloved children, to wit: Marget Pugh, Joseph Adamson, Simon Adamson, Wells Adamson and Mary Hopkins. I do appoint and ordain my Son Simon Adamson and George Pugh my executors of this my last Will and Testament and by these presents revoke all other Wills heretofore made by me. Witness my hadn and Seal this 18th day of October 1825. Acknowledged Signed Sealed and acknowledged to be his last Will and testament in the presents
of us. Signed: Jesse (X) Adamson
Test: Leonard Fite, Jurat. Enoch Stiles
Dec Term 1825. Wilson County Court. Will produced in open Court & duly proved by Leonard Fite & Enoch Stiles and ordered recorded.

Birth	Abt 1759	probably Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	1777	Orange County, North Carolina - Mary Wells
Death	By Dec 1825	Wilson County, Tennessee

Spouse	Mary Wells (1757 - 1825)
Child	Charity ADAMSON (1778 - 1828)
Child	John ADAMSON (1780 - 1806)
Child	Margaret ADAMSON (1782 - )
Child	Joseph ADAMSON (1785 - 1854)
Child	Simon ADAMSON (1786 - 1870)
Child	William ADAMSON (1787 - )
Child	Jesse ADAMSON (1788 - )
Child	Mary "Polly" Adamson (1790 - )
Child	Wells ADAMSON (1793 - 1838)
Child	Elizabeth Adamson (1797 - )
Child	Elijah ADAMSON (1799 - 1826)

Father	SIMON ADAMSON (1733 - 1817)
Mother	?Mary T. [Adamson] ( - )
Sibling	Enos ADAMSON (1761 - )
Sibling	Simon ADAMSON Jr. (1763 - 1814)
Sibling	John N. ADAMSON (1767 - 1828)
Sibling	JONATHAN ADAMSON (1771 - 1835)
Sibling	Thomas "Byrd" ADAMSON (1775 - 1812)
Sibling	David Adamson (1775 - 1850)