• John Adair FRS (1660–1718) was a Scottish surveyor and cartographer, noted for the excellence of his maps. He first came to public notice in 1683, with...
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  • John Adair (1757–1840) was a U.S. soldier, statesman and governor of Kentucky. John Adair may also refer to: John Adair (surveyor) (1660–1718), Scottish...
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  • Anthropology John Adair (author) (born 1934), UK leadership expert John Adair (surveyor) (c. 1655–1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker John A. M. Adair (1864–1938)...
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    1893 at Maryborough, Queensland, to a Victorian-born couple, John Hamilton Adair, a surveyor and Constance Ada (née Smith), a homemaker. He was educated...
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  • William Preston Anderson (category American surveyors)
    (1774–1831) was a United States Attorney, colonel during the War of 1812, surveyor, and land speculator in Tennessee and Alabama, United States. He is best...
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  • Chaptal's Élémens de chimie, in which he coins the word nitrogen (nitrogène). Adair Crawford, working with William Cruickshank, proposes the existence of the...
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    teacher, Owsley also studied surveying and eventually became a deputy surveyor. Later, he served as a deputy sheriff under his father, who was High Sheriff...
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    Department of Kansas Old Stone Church Marker. "Built by Rev. Samuel Adair brother-in-law of John Brown" (1861). Topeka, Kansas: "Capital of Kansas" ("In the late...
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    executive and judicial branches. A third group, led by future governor John Adair, agreed with the notion of legislative supremacy, but opposed limits on...
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    Kirksville, Missouri (category Cities in Adair County, Missouri)
    Kirksville is the county seat and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri. Located in Benton Township, its population was 17,530 at the 2020 census...
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  • Research. 138 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1007/s10479-005-2446-1. S2CID 2263094. Adair, Alastair; Norman Hutchison (2005). "The reporting of risk in real estate...
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  • At their trial, with the offence of perjury made clear, the Judge James Adair sentenced them to seven years transportation. She was described as tall...
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  • Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster) Adairville, Kentucky – John Adair (governor of Kentucky) Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner) Adams...
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    Norine Dickson (1969). Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman. New York: Devin-Adair Co. ISBN 978-0815965015. Carp, Benjamin L. (2010). Defiance of the Patriots:...
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    was elected President of the United States that year. Joshua Jones, a surveyor and Revolutionary War veteran, laid out the town on thirteen acres owned...
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    NASA to select a landing site for Apollo 12 and several Surveyor and Ranger missions. Ewen Adair Whitaker was born in London to George Whitaker, a typesetter...
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  • Roman Catholic majority from being seated in the House. Courtenay was the surveyor-general of the ordnance from 1783 to 1784, and a lord of the treasury from...
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    price for their land that two prominent Atlanta citizens, John W. Grant and George W. Adair, bought a tract about a mile south of Old Stockbridge and...
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    the area now known as Lincoln County, Kentucky where he spent time as a surveyor and a land speculator. He was admitted to practice law in the county court...
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    Humphrey Marshall (politician) (category American surveyors)
    District of Virginia where he became extremely wealthy as a farmer and surveyor. He was a delegate to two of the ten Kentucky statehood conventions and...
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  • the Special Olympics, Sandwell Dr Michael Adair Ievers — For services to Drama in Northern Ireland Dr John Black Irving — Treasurer, Mill Cottage Hut...
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    George Wishart (1513–1546), Protestant reformer and martyr John Adair (c. 1655–1722), surveyor and cartographer Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond (1832–1903), educator...
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  • Americans. In his book History of the American Indians, Irish historian James Adair acknowledged that they built the mounds, while arguing that they were descended...
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    001 is shared by Alcona County, Michigan, Adams County, Wisconsin, and Adair County, Iowa. To uniquely identify Alcona County, Michigan, one must use...
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    minister of Rotherhithe John Rowe (1626–1677), nonconformist minister Nathaniel Vincent (c. 1639–1697), nonconformist minister James Adair (c. 1743–1798), judge...
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    Revolutionary War. Putnam County was established February 28, 1845, from parts of Adair and Sullivan counties. The following year a portion of Putnam was removed...
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    of Ayre, & Galloway manuscript map drawn by the Scottish surveyor and map maker John Adair in about 1685 Map of the town of Glasgow & country seven miles...
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    eighteenth century it fell into disrepair, such that the Mercers' Company surveyor reported that it would cost £1,040 to renovate, "but you will still have...
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    the earliest maps of the area was made by surveyor and cartographer John Adair in 1681. See Alloa witches John Erskine, the 6th Earl of Mar oversaw many...
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  • Boise Adair County Iowa John Adair, a general in the War of 1812 and the eighth governor of Kentucky Adair County Kentucky Adair County Missouri Adair County...
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