Joseph Adams and Mrs. Mary Roller

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Husband Joseph Adams ¹

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           Born: 3 Nov 1787 - Lost Creek, Mifflin (later Juniata) Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Adams (1758-1803) 1 2 3
         Mother: Catherine Hoy (      -1795) 1 4

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       Marriage: 1837 1

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   Other Spouse: Mary Crum (      -      ) 1 - 1789 1

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Wife Mrs. Mary Roller ¹

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           Died: 1843 1
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Adams

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He was born at Lost Creek, Mifflin (later Juniata) County, Pennsylvania, and continued to reside at his father's home until the death of the latter, when he went west to Lewistown, Pennsylvania, and there secured a clerical position in a store which he held until the time of attaining his majority. He then received his share of the family estate, which amounted to two hundred and fifty pounds, a very considerable sum in those days, and with his fortune removed to Manor Hill, Huntingdon County, where he formed a partnership and together with his associate, James Milliken, conducted a country store. This enterprise was continued for about ten years, between 1808 and 1818, when the store and all his possessions at Manor Hill were destroyed by fire. He then removed to a farm in Heart's Log Valley, near Alexandria, Huntingdon County, and there made his home until 1834. In the latter year he removed to the vicinity of Hollidaysburg, where he was appointed weighmaster of the canal at that point. Here also he engaged in the coal business. He served as associate judge of the county courts in Huntingdon county for more than twenty years.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 450.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1012.

3 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 163.

4 Cromlund, New, & Adams, The Descendants of William Adams (Self-published, 1999), Pg 3.