William Adair

Notes

William, his eldest son by Margaret Cunningham, was an executor of his father’s will, and his third son Alexander, a witness to it.

In 1697 the Synod of Ulster voted an honorarium to the Rev. William Adair for his trouble in copying out, with the aid of an amanuensis, his father’s ‘collections’.[59] Dr Reid afterwards copied the greater part of his manuscript and made much use of it in his history of the Church.[60] The Rev. William Adair’s copy appears to be the one which the Rev. Classon Porter’s son, Classon Porter B.L. donated to the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland.[61] When Dr Killen published the Narrative in 1866 he followed Dr Reid’s copy, no doubt collating it with the Rev. William Adair’s manuscript.

Origins

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Rev. Patrick Adair (d 1694) had four sons: William, Archibald, Alexander and Patrick, and a daughter, Helen. Gordon says that Patrick junior was a minister at Carrickfergus and that he died in June 1717.[58] William, his eldest son by Margaret Cunningham, was an executor of his father’s will, and his third son Alexander, a witness to it.