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Patriot: Adam Lynn P-236940
Adam Lynn(or Linn) II was born 9 April 1749 in Ireland to Adam and Magdalena Linn. He married Anna (Hefly / Hefflebower) first, then married, Sidney Ann (Ewing). Their marriages were blessed with fourteen children: Margaret, John, George, Samuel, William, Margaret Lindsey, Aaron, Sarah, Agnes Sargent, Adam, Andrew, and Elizabeth. In the cemetery of Winterset, Guernsey County, Ohio is a memorial plaque at the grave of “Adam Linn, 1st Serg. Col. Irwin’s Regt., 7 PA Militia, Revolutionary War, 1748-1833”.[1] The 7th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia was raised in 1776 at Carlisle and was originally designated the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion. It was reorganized and redesignated 7th Regiment on 1 January 1777. One month later, it was assigned to the Main Continental Army; and in three more, it was attached to the 1st Pennsylvania Brigade. Among the major battles the 7th saw was the Battle of Brandywine, where the unit bore the brunt of the British assault. By the end of the year, they had sustained such losses that only 17 officers and 105 enlisted men remained fit for duty. They wintered at Valley Forge, then fought at Monmouth and in several minor battles and skirmishes. The unit was disbanded, then, in 1781.[2] At present, it has not been learned exactly what dates Adam Linn served in the 7th PA Regiment.
Following the war, Adam lived in Cumberland Township, which was situate in that part of York County which became Adams County in 1800. He appeared on the 1783 Cumberland Township tax list as owning one horse. Also on that list were Andrew Linn, David Linn, Hugh Linn, and John Linn. Of the five men, only David and John held real property.[3] All five names later appeared among the Linns of Guernsey County, Ohio.
Sometime within the next few years, Adam began his migration, though the exact times and locations of his movements are unclear, partly because of the loss of Virginia's 1790 census. A substitute for that census consists of 1789 through 1793 tax lists. In 1789, Adam Lin appears on the list for Rockbridge County for personal taxes only; and Adam's son William Linn is described in his death record as having been born in Rockbridge, Virginia.[4][5]
However, Adam does not appear at all on the 1790, 1791, 1792 or 1793 Virginia tax lists while, at the same time, two men named Adam Linn are found in the 1790 census living in Pennsylvania. One, in Huntingdon County, was the only male in his household. The other, age 16 or above, lived in Wheatfield, Westmoreland County with three males under the age of 16; and this Adam Linn had three sons born in the 1780s.[6] Also at the same time, Adam had a son whom he named Andrew Finley Linn, and one George Finley was listed immediately above Adam in the 1790 census while one Andrew Finley lived in another Westmoreland County township.[7]
Adam remained in Wheatfield until at least 1800, when he was listed in the census as Adam Lynn.[8] On the same page of that census is a John Lyn who may be a brother of Adam and, if so, likely also came from Cumberland Township, York/Adams County. On the following page of that census is a James Lynn who was 16-25[9] and may be yet another brother or perhaps a cousin of Adam; one Francis Linn born 1804 in Pennsylvania settled in Guernsey County, Ohio before 1850 and was listed in his 1891 death record as the son of James Linn.[10]
Adam's wife is reported to be Anna Hefly or Hefflebower. It is intriguing, however, that : (1) Adam's youngest son was named Andrew Finley Linn; (2) Adam's son John named his third son Andrew Finley Linn; and (3) two generations of men named Andrew Finley lived in York County, Pennsylvania - where Adam Linn served in the American Revolution - beginning with Capt. Andrew Finley who fought in the French and Indian War for some period surrounding 4 November 1756.[11] Given his military service in 1756, Capt. Finley must have been of the generation prior to Adam and Anna Linn. Is it possible that he was Anna's father?
One fact that these early records clearly prove is that not all the Linns of Guernsey County are direct descendants of Adam Linn.
Adam’s migration ended sometime in or before 1816, when he first appears on tax lists for Jefferson Township, Guernsey County, Ohio owing tax for 200 acres of land, 2 horses, and 3 cattle.[12] Also on that list are George Linn, John Linn, Joseph Linn, and William Linn. Only Adam, George, and John owned land. Adam last appears in Jefferson Township tax lists in 1832, when he still owned 200 acres, 2 horses, and 3 cattle.[13]
Adam last appears in the census in 1830, still living in Jefferson Township at the age of 80-89. Also in the home were one female age 80-89, one female 60-69, one male 20-29, one female 20-29, one female 15-19, and two males 0-4.[14]
Adam Linn lived to the age of 85 and died in 1833. He is buried in Winterset Cemetery in Winterset, Guernsey County.[15]
LINN, ADAM, (Guernsey County) [40.10780 -81.41560]
Adam Linn was born on April 9, 1749 in York County, Pennsylvania to parents Adam and Magdalena Linn. He served as a Sergeant in the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He married Anna Hefflebower (1761- ): children: Margaret, John, Joseph, George, Samuel, Mary, Aaren, William, Nancy, Sarah, Andrew and Elizabeth. Adam Linn built a house on the Steubenville Road on Lot 18, section 4 of Guernsey County, Ohio, and kept a tavern there. He died in 1833 or 1834 and was buried at Winterset Cemetery, Winterset, Guernsey County, Ohio. Adam Linn has a Bronze Veterans Administration tombstone and a bronze 1776 marker. References: S. A. R. Anna Asbury Stone Chap. 56th-77th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC. DAR, Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part2, pg.1866. Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing, pg. 2087. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #2, pg. 217. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 2, pg. 1866. Thomas L. Montgomery, Ed., Published Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume two, (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 1906), pg. 158. Pension Rolls of 1835, The mid-Western States, (Baltimore Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994), pg. 252. SAR Ancestor # P- 236940.
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