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Note: e Valley of Virginia, where Adam was born in Shepherdstown.
Shepherdstown is listed in my atlas as being in Jefferson County, West Virginia. In my research, I learned that in 1727, the Germans established the settlement New Mecklenburg in Frederick Co, Virginia. Berkley County was formed in October 1772 from the northern part of Frederick County, which contained Mecklenburg. In 1798, Mecklenburg was renamed Shepherds Town. In 1801, the part of Berkeley County which contained Shepherds' Town became Jefferson County. In 1865, Berkeley County, Morgan County,and Jefferson County became assigned to the new state of West Virginia. In 1867, Shepherd's Town's name was changed to Shepherdstown.
So, in June, 1790, when Adam was born [according to his tombstone], Shepherdstown was known as Mecklenburg, and was in Berkeley County, Virginia.
My HANDY BOOK FOR GENEALOGISTS lists:
a) Jefferson County, WV as having been formed in 1801, Berkeley County being the parent county.
b) Berkeley County, WV as having been formed in 1772, Frederick County being the parent county.
c) Frederick County is not listed as a county in West Virginia, but instead in Virginia, where it is said to have been formed between 1738-1842.
1788: Year of Adam's birth according to the 1850 census.
1789: Year of Adam's birth according to the 1860 census.
1790: Morton's HISTORY OF PRESTON COUNTY, V. 1, p. 415: Adam Bishop, born 1790, died 1868.
1790: LDS's IGI records re the marriage of Adam Bishop amd Rebecca C. Riley, Film # 184307, p. 612, Reference # 13862, describes Adam as having been born in 1790 and "Of, Preston, West Virginia." LDS Film #18355 submitted by Adam G. Bigler
June 1790: Month and year of birthdate and date of death found on Adam's tombstone according to Volume I, IN REMEMBRANCE: TOMBSTONE READINGS OF PRESTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, page 65, by Janice Cale Sisler, PO Box 113, Bruceton Mills WV 26525-0113, Sisler Heritage Enterprises, printed 1995 in the USA by the Fairmont Printing Company.
1810 Virginia Census Index: No Adam Bishop is listed.
1810: According to the Hardy Co Public Library, [102 Main St, Moorefield, WV, 26836, phone 304-538-6560], the Hardy Co VA Tax List by Jonathon Branson names Adam Bishop, John Bishop, George Bishop, and Daniel Bishop. An Isaac Bishop is also named in Jones Green's list.
War of 1812: The book HISTORY OF GRANT AND HARDY COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA, p. 235, has an Adam Bishop, Third Sergeant, from Spotsylvania County, serving in Captain John Cunningham's Company, Sixth Regiment of the Virginia Militia, 1814, according to Janice Childs Ward. On p. 234, a Ferdinand Bishop, is a sergeant in the same regiment at the same time, but under a different leader. Was the latter Adam's brother or a friend, whom he named his son after?
1814: Jimmie Lee Svoboda found the following in USGenweb:
Hardy Co, WV, Muster Roll of Captain John Cunningham's Company, Third Regiment, 1814:
Officers:
John Cunningham - Captain
John G. Harness - 1st Lieutenant
Jacob Neff - 1st Corporal
Thomas Wheeler - 2nd Corporal
Joseph Williams - 3rd Corporal
Valentine Simmons - 2nd Lieutenant
William Gourlay - 1st Sergeant
Ambrose Updegraff - 2nd Sergeant
Adam Bishop - 3rd Sergeant
James Gray - 4th Sergeant
Jacob Barger - Trumpeter
Mathew Toler - Cornet
1814: Family Tree Maker has Adam Bishop, 3rd Sergeant, among the officers in the muster roll of Captain John Cunningham's Cavalry Company of Hardy County, VA, Third Regiment, and a John Bishop among the Privates. The source is Virgil A. Lewis's THE SOLDIER OF WEST VIRGINIA. Ancestry.com also has confirmation of Adam's service in the War of 1812. One of the obituaries of The Honorable Charles M. Bishop, Adam's son, refers to his father as Col. Adam Bishop.
29 April 1815: Adam Bishop and Rebecca Riley applied for a license to marry. Allegany County Maryland Records: Marriage Licenses Book A, 1791-1847, Section One, page 8B. It was issued "out of the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court". The form goes
on to say that the clerk further certified "that Ministers of the Gospel, who were authorized to celebrate the rite of marriage in the State of Maryland in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, were not required by law, to make, and did not make
return, in any manner of the marriages solemnized by them." The marriage is also listed in Western Maryland Genealogy 1986, Volume 2, p. 120, "Allegany County Marriages", according to Margaret Lebherz of Baltimore.
29 April 1815: LDS's IGI record, Batch M533721, gives this marriage date for the couple.
31 Oct 1815: "The Hardy County Marriage List" on the Hardy County, West Virginia website www.usgenweb.com/wv has a marriage record of Daniel Bishop and Rebecca Riley on 10/31/1815 reported by John C. French, who is assumed to be the minister or official who performed the marriage ceremony.
31 Oct 1815: A certificate of marriage from the Clerk's Office of Hardy County, WV states that their records show that Daniel Bishop and Rebeccah Ryley were married by John E. French of Hardy County on the 31st of October, 1815, and is recorded in
Hardy County's Marriage Book # 1795, on p. 55. It is unknown whether our Adam used this name to apply again to marry Rebecca, and if so, why.
1830 VA Census: Ward found both Adam and John Bishop, on p. 72 in Moorefield, Hardy Co, VA. A George and Isaac Bishop were also in this census. One has to consider that they may have been brothers or somehow related.
1830 VA, Hardy Co, Moorefield Census, p. 72: Ward found that in this census Adam Bishop's household had 6 males and 2 females. The males were 1 70-80 (Unknown); 1 40-50 (Unknown); 1 30-40 (Adam); 2 10-15 (Ferdinand and James R.); and 1 under 5 (Charles). The 2 females were: 1 30-40 (Rebecca) and 1 under 5 (Anne Rebecca)
1830 VA, Hardy Co, Moorefield Census, p. 72: Ward found that in this census, John Bishop's household contained 3 males and 7 females. The males were 1 50-60 and 2 20-30. The females were 1 50-60, 1 20-30, 3 15-20, and 2 10-15.
1840 VA, Hardy Co, Moorefield Census: Ward found that in this census, Adam Bishop's household contained 9 males and 2 females. The males are: 1 30-40 (Adam), 3 20-30 (Ferdinand, James R., and ?), 1 10-15 (Charles), 4 under 5 (Adam Henry, William Harry, Carr McCurdy, and Jacques A.) The females are: 1 30-40 (Rebecca), 1 15-20 (Anne Rebecca).
1840 VA, Hardy Co, Moorefield Census: Ward found that in this census, John Bishop's household contained 5 males, 2 females, 2 free colored. The males were 1 50-60, 3 20-30, 1 5-10. The females were 2 20-30. The free colored were 1 36-56
and 1 under 10.
1843: Adam Bishop moved his family to Kingwood, Preston County, WV where he owned and operated the Union hotel, according to J. R. Cole's A HISTORY OF PRESTON COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA, (1914), p. 829.
1843: Morton's HISTORY OF PRESTON COUNTY, V. 1, p. 323 says: "Adam Bishop came from Moorefield to Kingwood in 1843. He was a saddler by trade, but almost at once became landlord of the Union Hotel."
13 July 1850: 1850 VA Census, Preston Co, 45th District, p. 340, line 16. Adam Bishop, 62, male, saddler, born in VA. Charles F. McKidwell, 29, male, doctor, born in VA, was enumerated with Adam, his wife Rebecca, and their children including Charles
M., 22, saddler; Adam H., 19; William H., 17, clerk; Ann R., 20; Carr M., 12; and Jaquess, 11, all said to have been born in Virginia. The only entries in columns 10-13, were for Carr and Jacques, saying that they had attended school within the year.
1850 Census: Ward also found the following Bishops in Preston County, VA: 3 Christians, 2 Henrys, a James R. (Adam's son), a John, a John W., a Joseph, and a William. (A Henry, a John, a Joseph, and William are found among John and Hannah Bishop's family, originally of Frederick County, Maryland.)
1853: Preston Co VA records began to be kept.
17 Oct 1860: 1860 VA Census, Preston Co, Fellowsville P.O., p. 284, line 31: Adam, 71, a saddler and harnessmaker, with a personal estate of $150. Lewis and Anna Bolyard and their five young children were enumerated with Adam, Rebecca, and their daughter, Anne, all the family said to have been born in Virginia.
1860: Ward found the following other Bishops in Preston Co, VA in 1860: Adam H., Carl [Carr] M. in Fellowsville; Charles M. in Rowelsburg; and James R. in Evansville. all Adam's sons.
15 April 1865: Adam's wife Rebecca died on this date according to her tombstone next to Adam's in the Evansville Cemetery. Her tombstone has fallen and is broken into three pieces. I have pictures of the cemetery and both her and her husband's
tombstones on my MyFamily.com website, thanks to John Pierson and Janice Childs Ward.
15 June 1866: Adam Bishop died this date according to the records of the Evansville Cemetery Association. Mrs. H. Blake (Patricia) Clarkson, Secretareey of the Evansville Cemetery Association, Rt. 1, Box 55, Thornton, WV 26440-9709, Phone
304-265-14458, wrote on 18 April, 2001 that their records have only one bishop, Adam Bishop, and that they are "June 1790-15 June, 1866. I see the year of death differs from yours, this could be an error on our records."
15 June 1868: Adam Bishop died on this date according to his tombstone as read independently by Janice Cale Sisler and John Pierson in the Evansville Cemetery, "an active cemetery in the Reno District, located on a hill behind the Evansville U. M.
Church, Rt. 50, Preston Co, WV.(Sisler, Ibid.) The cemetery and church are near Newburg, WV 26410 in Preston Co. Adam died in Fetterman, [Taylor County, WV] according to the obituary of one of his sons, The Honorable Charles M. Bishop. Since Adam had become a widower, he may have gone to Fetterman to live with one of his children, Adam H. Bishop. The WV Division of Culture and History in Charleston WV was unable to find Adam's death record or will. Although Adam had been prominent in Preston Co, WV, John Pierson found no obituary for him in the Preston County papers although he searched through months of issues. I have been told that news re the Civil War dominated the newspapers at the time. Also that Taylor County did not have newspapers until 1870.
7 March 1869: The records at the Preston Co, VA courthouse were destroyed when the courthouse was burned down this date.
Note: The obituary of one of Adam's sons, the Honorable Charles M. Bishop, published in The Preston County Journal 6 Feb 1902 states that Charles's grandfather, who was of Pennsylvania German ancestry, moved from the Keystone State [Pennsylvania] to th
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