Seventh Generation

149. Anna Margaret "Polly" CLAPP was born about 1759 in Orange Co., NC. She died on 22 February 1844 at the age of 85 in Giles Co., VA. Birth date of 1757 from Jerry L. Jones, 648 Allegheny Ave., Staunton, VA. on a family group sheet of Adam Lugar. Anna is buried in William's Cemetery, Craig Co., VA.

Anna Margaret "Polly" CLAPP and Adam "Barney" LUGAR (LUGER) Sr. were married on 22 June 1780 in Guilford Co., NC. Married in the Brick Church, Guilford Co., NC. Oldest child in Indiana and Adam, Jr. was in Giles Co., VA. Do not have the name of the oldest child. Adam "Barney" LUGAR (LUGER) Sr. was born on 1 March 1738 in Frankfort, Germany. He died on 9 March 1837 at the age of 99 in Giles Co., VA. Adam came to America at age 33 with the Hessian Army, arrived in NY at the time the British occupied it (possibly 23 July 1776). He deserted after 4 weeks and enlisted in the Continental Army at Lancaster, PA. He served as a private in Captain Celeron's Company under Colonel Posher and General Pulaski. They marched to Philadelphia, and then to Elizabethtown and finally to an area he called New Kirby, where they engaged with the British. Colonel Posher was killed and a man named Fry was made Colonel. Here they spent the winter. In the Spring, they marched from PA to Charleston, SC, where they engaged the British again.. After 18 months he was discharged. Adam moved up to NC and enlisted again with the N. C. Militia and served another 8 months. Sometime in 1777 in Orange Co., NC he married Anna Margaret Clapp. Between 1777 and 1779 he moved to Giles Co., VA. (Now Craig Co.), settling in Sinking Creek and south side of Johns Creek Mountain and Salt Pond Mountain. Information on this family from a family group sheet done by Jerry L. Jones, 648 Allegheny Ave., Staunton, VA. and an article on the Lugar family on page 294-95 of the Giles County History - Families, LC# 82-061956, ISBN -0-9610388.

Anna Margaret "Polly" CLAPP and Adam "Barney" LUGAR (LUGER) Sr. had the following children: