Individual Details
Mordecai ADAMSON
(30 Jan 1798 - 19 Apr 1848)
Newberry Monthly Meeting. 30th of the 6th Month 1821 . Mary Adamson produced a certificate for herself & her children from Lost Creek Monthly Meeting. Her sons, names are Modecai, Solomon & Seth which was read and accepted.
1823, 3, 29. Lost Creek Monthly Meeting: Mordecai Adamson was received on certificate from Newberry MM, dated 1822, 12, 7. Wife Susannah and children Adam & Peter included He also condemned his marriage contrary to discipline.
1825, 11, 26. Modecai & fam were granted certificate to Honey Creek MM, Howard Co, IN. Susanna and children Adam, Peter,Catherine, John, Mary & Eliza, granted certificate the same day.
Mordecai is in the Henry Co IN census in 1830 - age 30-40. His brother Solomon also seems to be there.
Moved to Wayne Co IN; the Milford Monthly Meeting.
Jefferson Co, Iowa records:
ADAMSON
Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 6/11/2003
Guardian Box 1, County Clerk's Office.
Admr. Papers, Box 1 - Estate of M. Adamson, Dec'd.
Mordica Adamson died on or about 19 Apr 1848, leaving land W 1/2 SE 1/4 of Sec. 3, Township 73 R9W, & E 1/2 SW 1/2 same section township & range (Penn); Enos Adamson is a minor heir; Sarah Adamson, minor heir; Susannah Adamson, widow.
1850 Census Penn Twp, Jefferson Co, Iowa. Hh 14 [Name written as Anderson.]
Susannah Adamson, age 43, b. NC
Adam, 27, farmer, b. Tenn.
Peter, 22, b. Tenn.
Catherine 19, b. IN
John 18, b. IN
Mary 17, b. IN
Eliza 14, b. IN
Delilah 12, b. IN
Sarah, 10, b. Iowa
Enos, 8 b. Iowa
in Hh 16, Adam seemed to be counted again, except they got his name right.
Adam Adamson, age 27, b. TN and Luanah, age 15, b. IN
Events
| Birth | 30 Jan 1798 | Lost Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee |  | ||
| Marriage | 19 Dec 1822 | Jefferson County, Tennessee - Susannah Peck | | ||
| Death | 19 Apr 1848 | Jefferson County, Iowa |
Families
| Spouse | Susannah Peck ( - ) |
| Father | John N. ADAMSON (1767 - 1828) |
| Mother | Mary Hammer (1768 - ) |
| Sibling | Abraham ADAMSON (1790 - 1863) |
| Sibling | Enos ADAMSON (1793 - 1846) |
| Sibling | Susannah ADAMSON (1795 - ) |
| Sibling | Solomon ADAMSON (1800 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Isaac ADAMSON (1802 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Eleanor "Nellie" ADAMSON (1804 - ) |
| Sibling | Seth ADAMSON (1808 - 1850) |
Endnotes
1. Judy K. Dye, K.A.R.D. Files, Series of 14 Booklets of Adamson data. (Kent, WA: Self-published, 1981-1998).
2. William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, (Reprint of 1936 edition in 1969 by Genealogical Publishing Co includes Supplement by Thomas Worth Marshall, 1948.), Vol. 1; Records of NC; Lost Creek MM p.1103.
3. Judy K. Dye, K.A.R.D. Files, Series of 14 Booklets of Adamson data. (Kent, WA: Self-published, 1981-1998).
4. Liahona Research, Inc., Tennessee Marriages 1801-1825.