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   Historic Sullivan: A History of Sullivan County, Tennessee
   by Oliver Taylor, Pub. 1909

 [98-99]
 
                                JOHN ADAIR
                               A BIOGRAPHY
                           
       For several generations posterity has passed by the grave of
    JOHN ADAIR and left it unremembered and unmarked.  But for the
    annalist he might in a few more generations be forgotten.
       He was born in Ireland and emigrated to this country, settling
    in North Carolina.  Afterward he removed to Sullivan County, then
    North Carolina where he became entry taker in 1779.  He was one of
    ISAAC SHELBY'S associates and rendered that officer valuable aid
    in planning the King's Mountain expedition.  It is described else-
    where how he gave the funds of the county to aid SHELBY and SEVIER
    in the execution of their project.
       In 1788 he was commissioner for furnishing supplies to the
    Cumberland Guard.
       In 1794, after Blount College had been established, he was
    chosen one of the trustees; he was a member of the constitutional
    convention in 1796, and was Presidential elector for Hamilton dis-
    trict in in 1796 and 1799.
       He was one of the commissioners of Knoxville, 1797.
       The Cumberland Guard, for which he furnished supplies, acted as
    escort for travellers through the wilderness, to the Cumberland
    Plateau.
       In 1788 he located in the vicinity of what is now Knoxville -
    North Carolina having, in recognition of his services, granted him
    a tract of six hundred and forty acres.  This tract is about four
    and a half miles north of Knoxville, and there he erected a log
    house which was built after the manner of a block-house.  It was
    known as ADAIR'S Station, and the stream running through it is
    still known as ADAIR'S Creek.  ADAIR and Gen. JAMES WHITE were
    contemporaries and friends.  The latter founded Knoxville in 1792.
       So far as known JOHN ADAIR had one child - a daughter, MARY,
    who married ROBERT CHRISTIAN, son of GILBERT CHRISTIAN of Sulli-
    van County.  The marriage no doubt took place at Christiansville
    or what is now Kingsport as the CHRISTIANS were living there then.
    MARIA, a daughter of the couple, lived with her grandparents at
    ADAIR'S Station and there married JOHN SMITH, whose descendants
    live there to-day.  This land still remains in the same family
    after having come direct from the State.
       JOHN ADAIR died in 1827 and, with his wife, is buried on a
    knoll on the old tract - the exact location of the graves, however,
    is in doubt.
 

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