Adam Bly (1784 - abt. 1851)

Born 1784 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Bauserman) Bly — married 8 Nov 1808 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1851 at about age 67 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

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Biography

Adam Bly, oldest child of George and Elizabeth, was born in the Cedar Creek area of Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1784 and grew up there, but about 1808 moved across the mountain into the Mount Olive neighborhood, and married Mary Bauserman. In March 1808 he was among a group of 40 people who agreed to contribute money so that a lot could be purchased to build a school in the neighborhood. ^[1]

During the War of 1812 Adam Bly served as a private in Capt. William Newell's Company of the Second Virginia Regiment from Shenandoah County and in 1814 spent several months near Richmond while on maneuvers. ^[2]

Adam Bly was a farmer, but never owned any land. He first lived in the Toms Brook- Mount Olive neighborhood and was a subscriber to the Hottel School House in 1823, ^[3]but according to his own deposition he rented a farm near Maurertown from Jacob Huddle, a major landowner in the area, and Huddle's estate records contain accounts of rents paid by Adam Bly from 1816 to 1835.^[4] In 1833 Adam Bly leased a farm from Huddle on Narrow Passage Creek, southwest of Woodstock. According to this lease, he was to pay 200 dollars a year rent and "...the said Bly also binds himself to keep the fences in good repair and the said Bly also binds himself to sow two and a half bushels of clover seed per year on the said farm. ^[5] His son, Henry took over the lease about 1836 and he was living in the household of his son, Henry, in 1840. Adam and Mary were listed in the 1850 census, near Woodstock, ^[6]and the last year he appears in the personal property tax records is 1851. No specific death date has been found.

Sources

• Personal property tax records, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
• Census records, 1810-1850, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Shenandoah County Deed Book "Q", p. 182.
2. ↑ Pay Rolls of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, Richmond (1852), p. 79.
3. ↑ Friedens Church Register, p. 14, Shenandoah County, Virginia, published by the Hottel Keller Memorial (2008)
4. ↑ Shenandoah County Chancery Causes: Charles C. Maurer vs HEIRS of Jacob Huddle, Case #1849-005. pp. 81-84. Local Government Records, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
5. ↑ "Huddle vs. Bly" Papers of the Shenandoah County Circuit Court, August. 1846, Shenandoah County Court House, Woodstock, VA.
6. ↑ United States Census, 1850, Shenandoah County, District 58. p. 5B, family #39. Digital image at FamilySearch.org: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-67RW-QR2?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM8DP-T95&action=view