John Adams Cameron was an 1806 graduate of the University of North Carolina. He had moved to Fayetteville, N.C. by 1810. He was a Major in the War of 1812, member of the N.C. House of Commons, Grand Master of North Carolina's Grand Lodge of Freemasons, president of the Fayetteville branch of the Bank of the United States and a newspaper editor. He was appointed to be a Federal Judge in Florida in 1832. He died at sea in 1838 in the sinking of the steamship Pulaski.
Source: Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.
An image of John Adams Cameron, who was Grand Master of North Carolina’s Freemasons in 1820 and 1821 can be found on the website of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. www.grandlodge-nc.org/center-for-members/proceedings-and-past-grand-masters
John Adams Cameron was the son of Reverend John Cameron (1744-1815) and his wife Anne Owen Nash (d. 1825). In January of 1815 he married Eliza Ann Adam of Fayetteville (1798-1817). When John's business required a trip to Europe, it was decided that Eliza might benefit from a sea voyage. They arrived at Liverpool, then took another sea journey to Greenock (her father's birthplace on the coast of Scotland). Mrs. Eliza Adam Cameron died in Scotland in 1817. Eliza and John's only child, Mary Elizabeth Cameron, married Dr. Halcott Pride Jones. Sources: NCPedia Article for John Adams Cameron; blog entry for student Eliza Adam (1798-1817) in "The Mordecai Female Academy" by Penny L. Richards. http://mordecaischool.blogspot.com/2009/09/2-eliza-adam-1798-1817.html
In 1818 John Adams Cameron married Mrs. Catherine McQueen Halliday, a young widow. Catherine and John had five children: (1) John Donald Cameron who married Rebecca Waddell; (2) Anna Nash Cameron who married Reverend Jarvis Buxton; (3) Catherine Lafayette Cameron who was the first wife of Judge William Marcus Shipp; (4) Duncan William Cameron who was unmarried; and (5) Eliza Adam Cameron who was unmarried. Main sources: NCPedia Article for John Adams Cameron; “The Reads and their Relatives: Being an Account of Colonel Clement and Madam Read of Bushy Forest, Lunenburg County, Virginia, their Eight Children, their Descendants, and Allied Families” by Alice Read (Mrs. Shelley Rouse) (1930).
John Adams Cameron was an 1806 graduate of the University of North Carolina. He had moved to Fayetteville, N.C. by 1810. He was a Major in the War of 1812, member of the N.C. House of Commons, Grand Master of North Carolina's Grand Lodge of Freemasons, president of the Fayetteville branch of the Bank of the United States and a newspaper editor. He was appointed to be a Federal Judge in Florida in 1832. He died at sea in 1838 in the sinking of the steamship Pulaski.
Source: Powell's Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.
An image of John Adams Cameron, who was Grand Master of North Carolina’s Freemasons in 1820 and 1821 can be found on the website of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. www.grandlodge-nc.org/center-for-members/proceedings-and-past-grand-masters
John Adams Cameron was the son of Reverend John Cameron (1744-1815) and his wife Anne Owen Nash (d. 1825). In January of 1815 he married Eliza Ann Adam of Fayetteville (1798-1817). When John's business required a trip to Europe, it was decided that Eliza might benefit from a sea voyage. They arrived at Liverpool, then took another sea journey to Greenock (her father's birthplace on the coast of Scotland). Mrs. Eliza Adam Cameron died in Scotland in 1817. Eliza and John's only child, Mary Elizabeth Cameron, married Dr. Halcott Pride Jones. Sources: NCPedia Article for John Adams Cameron; blog entry for student Eliza Adam (1798-1817) in "The Mordecai Female Academy" by Penny L. Richards. http://mordecaischool.blogspot.com/2009/09/2-eliza-adam-1798-1817.html
In 1818 John Adams Cameron married Mrs. Catherine McQueen Halliday, a young widow. Catherine and John had five children: (1) John Donald Cameron who married Rebecca Waddell; (2) Anna Nash Cameron who married Reverend Jarvis Buxton; (3) Catherine Lafayette Cameron who was the first wife of Judge William Marcus Shipp; (4) Duncan William Cameron who was unmarried; and (5) Eliza Adam Cameron who was unmarried. Main sources: NCPedia Article for John Adams Cameron; “The Reads and their Relatives: Being an Account of Colonel Clement and Madam Read of Bushy Forest, Lunenburg County, Virginia, their Eight Children, their Descendants, and Allied Families” by Alice Read (Mrs. Shelley Rouse) (1930).
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