John McAdoo Sr. (abt. 1718 - abt. 1801)

Born about 1718 in Ulster, Ireland [uncertain]

Husband of Anne (Unknown) McAdoo — married 1750 in Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1801 at about age 83 in Barren Co, Kentucky [uncertain]

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Biography

John McAdoo, born abt 1718, was Scotch-Irish, arriving in Virginia, from Ulster in the early part of eighteenth century. He married abt 1755 to Ann?, also from Ulster, and had at least seven children. Their daughter Rhoda, born abt 1754, married Thomas J. Flippin 3rd, from Gloucester VA, and they had at least twelve children. John and Ann's son, John II. was born in 1757 and married Martha Grills, settling in Tennessee. Their son John lll would marry Mary Ann Gibbs. ^{[1] [2]}John McAdoo died about 1801, in Kentucky

The children named the Will of John McAdoo,

dated 27 April 1800 was probated in 1802 are: ^[3]

1.Nancy McAdoo - m/Ralston

2.Martha McAdoo - m/William Allen

3.Mary McAdoo - m/James Moore

4.William McAdoo

5.John McAdoo II. - m/Martha Gills

6.Rhoda/Roda McAdoo – m/Thomas Flippen lll

7.?Andrew? - ?son? is mentioned

Revolutionary War Service
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2-Sep-2016), "Record of John McAdoo Sr.", Ancestor # A074339.

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson County, Tennessee: History Revealed By M. Secrist p,102
2. ↑ Notable Southern Families by Armstrong, Zella - Pub 1918
3. ↑ Ancestry.com Message Boards by M. Munn, citing "Barren County, KY, Will Book 1 (1798-1818), pages 32-33"

See also:

• Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans: Containing Biographies and Records by William Spear - pub. 2010, Genealogical Publishing Com – page 202

• WorldConnect John McAdoo genealogy

Siblings listed but not verified:

Andrew McAdow 1725-Deceased

Martha Stevenson McAdow 1730-1788

​Research Notes - McAdoo Origins
This John McAdoo is categorized as the Tree Top McAdoo of what is probably the best documented, and arguably the most famous, McAdoo family line in America. This John leads to William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. The date of John's will establishes his presence in Barren County, Kentucky in 1800. The birth and marriage dates and places of his son, also named John, implies both were resident in Virginia between 1757 and at least 1787 when the younger is said by Armstrong to moved south to Island Ford.

This John McAdoo is one of many "Johns" of the same era resident in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. He is categorized here as one of a short list of Candidates who may be the Zero_McAdoo, the first person with surname McAdoo to arrive in the colonies.

Ingles Ferry Settlement on the New River, Virginia

• Zella Armstrong states on page 140 of her account of this family, that this John McAdoo "married perhaps in 1756 at a point where later the Norfolk and Virginia Railway crossed New River" ... and "son John was born at that point on 6 Feb 1757". The concrete abutments are all that remain today of the N&V Railway bridge that crossed the New River at present-day Radford, Virginia. LINK
  

• Son John's birth at this site in 1757 would place the family at an early settlement then known as Ingles Farm, and later as Ingles Ferry, in then Augusta County, Virginia. At the time of son John and wife Martha's departure from Ingles Ferry in 1787, Ingles Ferry was located in Botetort County, Virginia, established from Augusta in 1770.
  

• The Ingles Ferry was built to serve traffic on the "Great Wagon" or "Wilderness" Road that was used by colonial era pioneers to travel from Philadelphia to the western frontier lands in the Carolinas and to what 50 years later would become Kentucky and Tennessee. The road forked near a ford on the Yadkin River in western North Carolina. If Armstrong's accounts are correct, then both Johns would have traveled from Ingles Ferry down this road in 1787. The elder John to a new home in what, in 1792, would become Kentucky; and son John and wife to a settlement near Island Ford on the Clinch River in what would become, in 1796, Tennessee.
  

• Historical Note: The Ingles Farm and Ferry were established by storied Shawnee captive/escapee Mary Draper Ingles and her husband shortly after the 1755 Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian Wars.