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in our Database | |  | | | | Adam Runner Sr. Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1731 Cecil Co. MD Colony | | Death Date | 1795 Wythe County Virginia Colony | | Father | Mathias Lauffer Runner RENNER | Born: 1725 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg Germany | | | Mother | Catherine ? | Born: 1738 | | | Adam Runner
Notes: | Adam Runners estate was appraised .
Feb 15 1796 in Wythe County VA. 17 82 Montomery County,
Virginia Land Tax List - Acerage 210, Value 65, tax 1 3
More about Adam Runner Sr.
He was mentioned in a lawsuit in Wythe County Superior court Chancery Pleas and the following children were named:
Adam,
Jacob,
Catherine who married Peter Smith and moved to KY,
Elizabeth who married John Runyon,
Margaret who married John Smith,
Susannah who married Robert Curry (1792),
Mary who married John George Schroeder,
and Lovis who married Joseph Honaker first and after his death married Benjamin Jonaes and moved west.
(Lawsuit Smith V Fugate, Wythe County Superior Court Chancery Pleas, Bk 5 beginning P 669,
Montgomery county Marriges) Adam Sr. is thought by many to be a son of Gottlieb Lauffer who came from Germany to Maryland in the 1700s.
The book EARLY ADVENTURES OF THE WESTERN WATERS, VOL II, by Mary Kegley p age 397 discusses Adam Runner living in Drapers Valley as early as 1786, on 230 acres of land on Macks Run.
(Mongomery County Deed Book A, P402) Records indicate that he was definitely living in Wythe County Virginia in 1751 when his first child, Adam Runner, Jr. was born. Adam Sr. and his wife (name unknown) had a total of eight children.
Some say he was born in Germany.
Some speculate that Adam Runner, Sr. was the son of a German immigrant, Gottlieb Lauffer, who came to the US in the early 1700s and settled in Maryland.
Based on the information I have been able to locate to date, there is no record or other evidence that connects Adam Runner, Sr. to the Lauffer clan, which immigrated to America from the German State of Baden Wuertemberg.
| | Notes: | One r~searcher found evidence that Adam Runner came to this continent from Scottland on a prison ship. first to Culpeper Co .. Virqinia. As early as 1786. when executors of James Patton sold Andrew Boyd 230 acres of land on Macks Run (Va.) it was noted that it was "the plantation where Adam Runner now lives" in Drapers Valley. (Montqomery County Deed Book A .. p. 402.) There were two Adam Runners. one the son of the other. Recorded history is not always clear Which Adam Runner is beinq written about. It is recorded that Adam Runners estate was appraised Feb. 15. 1796, so we can establish his death in 1795 or 1796. (I assume this was the older Adam Runner.) The other Adam Runner died Oct. 17, 1816, in Warren Co., Ky.
| | Notes: | In Montgomery County (Va.) in 1779 charqes were brouqht against Adam Runner, and he was found guilty of havinq Tory sentiments. (In Revolutionary times. a Tory was a person who continued to advocate alleqiance to Great Britain.) The damaqe and c
| |  | | Elizabeth Sarah Miller Notes: | One reference lists her as Sarah Elizabeth Miller. She was born in Virginia. Some give her birth date 1784 and others 1787. One gave it 1792 - had she been born in 1792, she would have had her first son, Benjamin Runner born April 23, 1806, at age 14 which is unlikely. Her son, Henry Flora, in a census gave her birth as 1784 and said she was a native of Virginia. This would have made her 22 years old when her son Benjamin Runner was born. As her brother Henry was born in 1784, the more likely date would be 1787 (age 19 when Benjamin was born) and she would have been born between John Benjamin and James | | Individual Notes: | | | More Notes: | | | |
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