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1740 - 1797 (57 years)
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| Name |
Michael Adam Gaar |
| Nickname |
Adam |
| Birth |
ca. 1740 |
GAAR Mountain, Hebron Valley, Madison County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Unknown |
| Death |
ca. 1797 |
Elbert County, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I106 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
16 Nov 2007 |
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| Notes |
- Michael's father John aka Johann Adam GAAR was age 21 during 1732, when his Bavarian family from Illenschwang was imported in the ship Loyal Judith belonging to the Virginia Co of London. Robert Turpin, shipmaster sailed with 300 Palatines from Rotterdam to Portsmouth and Johann GAAR was the tenth name listed. His father Andreas (Andrew) GAAR b 14 Jun 1685 was the first name listed by the shipmaster. A weaver by occupation, he and his wife Eve Seidelmann and 12 children arrived in Portsmouth from Illenschwang, Bavaria abt. 1732. His Majesty's Lt. Gov. and Cmdr. in Chief of Virginia's Colony, Alexander Spotswood encouraged the colony of German Protestants settlement including, Andrew and sons - John Adam age 21 and Lorenz age 16. The Governor's heir, John Spotswood Jr. of Orange Grove may be seen as a Grantee in the 1767 family deed to John Adam GAAR. This GAAR Indenture for property is presently mapped as GAAR Mountain, Madison, VA and it was part of the Spotswood grant that devolved to Spotswood's grandson John, thus John was selling off part of his inheritance to Adam GAAR. In this property line is seen Richard Waugh, (1732 - 1805) a Maj of VA Militia in 1777-78.
This GAAR Family purchased land during Aug 1747 from James Maxwell of St. Mark's Parish within Orange Co., VA at GAAR Mountain in Hebron Valley. Johann Adam GAAR and his wife Elizabeth Kaffer are the first names in the old Lutheran Church books of Madison Co., VA of date 1775.
The Library of VA Imaging Services Branch, Richmond, VA has a Legislative Petition recorded in Oct 1776 revealing the Gaar family as signers of the Petition sent to the VA Assembly House of Burgesses from Hebron Church (erected 1740) at Madison, for relief from paying taxes other than for their Church parish and their own poor. The first signer is Adam Gaar along with his sons, Michael and Benjamin. Adam's nephews (Lorenz' sons) John & Andrew also signed this petition advocating the popular idea of separation of church and state …Hebron Lutheran Church is a Registered National Historic Landmark at Madison, VA.
At Culpeper, VA ca 1766 Michael married Elizabeth Wilhoit the dau. of Adam & Catherine Wilhoit, one of 4 brothers from Germany then named Prussia. Elizabeth's sister, Mary, married Rev. William Carpenter, Sr., an RS like his son, Wm, Jr. They both were present at the surrender at Yorktown during Oct. 1781. Michael GAAR and Elizabeth joined an Orange, VA wagon party of families and collateral relatives including May Burton, Jr., Benjamin Head, Jr., John and his son Joseph Rucker, who traveled and settled in Capt. Dunston Blackwell's Dist. of Wilkes Co., later named Elbert Co. Joseph Rucker's sister, Margaret/Peggy (aka Lucy) married Michael's son William GAAR. Another sister, Mary (Polly) Rucker married William's brother, George GAAR and the couple is laid to rest at Vans Creek Baptist Church Cem. adjacent to his father, Michael.
John Adam GAAR and his son Michael did not change their residence. John's will was recorded in Culpeper in Jan 1790 but later in the same yr Madison Co. was struck off from Culpeper, so his will was probated in Madison Co. Source: GARR Genealogy, pg. 544 published 1894 Cincinnati.
Died:
- Georgia DAR Returns of Adm. & Guardians 1791- 1803, Book A, page 57.
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