Bender, Adam
Abt 1736 - 1835 (99 years)-
Name Bender, Adam [1] Birth Abt 1736 Shenandoah, Virginia 
[1] Gender Male Name Adam Painter [1] Name Adam Panther [1] Name Johann Adam Bender [1] Death 25 Jun 1835 [1] Person ID I28479 European Descendants Last Modified 17 Feb 2026
Family 
Broyles, Demilia, b. Abt 1760, Virginia d. Yes, date unknownMarriage Bef 7 Apr 1776 Culpeper (now Madison), Virginia [1] Children 1. Painter, Mary, b. Abt 1806, Tennessee d. Aft 1880 (Age 75 years)Family ID F11541 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 17 Feb 2026
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Notes - Adam Bender's home in Shenandoah County was destroyed during the French and Indian War, by a party of 50 Shawnee warriors and 4 Frenchmen. His father was killed and he was taken prisoner, along with his mother and two sisters, while two of his brothers escaped. He was held captive for a couple of years, and then regained his freedom and settled in the German community near the Hebron Church in Madison, and soon after became known as Adam Painter. He was drafted in the Revolutionary War and afterward moved his family south to the Nolichucky River region of western North Carolina/Eastern Tennessee. He and his wife Milly raised 10 children there.
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Sources - [S985] Cathi Clore Frost, The Broyles Family, The First Four Generations, (Locust Grove, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., 2022.), p. 85. (Reliability: 3).
- [S985] Cathi Clore Frost, The Broyles Family, The First Four Generations, (Locust Grove, Virginia: Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., 2022.), p. 85. (Reliability: 3).