Ancestry of
Adam Shriver

(1788–1861)

Adam Shriver Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Adam Shriver 
  • Mother:
  • Christina -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Feb 1788 
  • Birth Location:
  • Maryland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Aug 1861 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Zion Baptist Cemetery, Byesville, Guernsey, Ohio 
  • Notes: 

  • Daughters of the American Revolution list Adam Shriver as the son of Jacob Shriver and Elizabeth Shull. Other sources indicate that Adam and Jacob were brothers, both sons of Adam Shriver Sr.

    Sources disagree on whether Adam was born in Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Maryland.

• Marriages for Adam Shriver Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Delilah Gordon

• Sources for Adam Shriver Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A104465.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Guernsey County, 1850, Jackson, Image 16 of 30.
  • ³ Federal Census, OH, Guernsey County, 1860, Jackson, p. 79, Image 21 of 23.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/09/2015).
  • ⁵ Leckey, Howard L., The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2001), 436.
  • ⁶ Reynolds, Ralph D., Iams of America: Landed Gentry of Maryland: Patriots, Pioneers, and Successful Americans, Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press (1998), 13.
  • ⁷ Sarchet, Cyrus P. B., History of Guernsey County, Ohio, Vol. 2, Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen and Company (1911), 699.
  • ⁸ Williams, T.F., The Household Guide and Instructor with Biographies: History of Guernsey County, Ohio, Evansville, Indiana: Reprinted by Windmill Publications, Inc. (1990, original 1882), 496.