Adam Purviance

Early Life and Education

Adam Purviance was a minister, state legislator and leader of the Christian church born in North Carolina. His Revolutionary War veteran father relocated their family from Pennsylvania to Iredell County after the war ended; Adam attended an academy run by Reverend James Hall until interrupted by war; after teaching briefly he worked in town clerk’s office before marrying Mary Ireland and moving his family back home before eventually moving again in 1792 for farming pursuits in Bourbon County Kentucky until finally dying at New Paris Ohio in 1847.