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I have been researching the Adam Kounts/Kuns/Koontz/ family of Blount County for years and have recently made a major breakthrough. I offer the following for anyone else researching this line.
Adam Koontz or Kuns as his last name is often spelled in the Blount County records, was probably born in Virginia and was in Blount County by November 1798 when he was screened to be a juror in the Blount County court of pleas. He was taxed in 1800 and in 1801 for 400 acres of land.
Adam’s first wife was Mary, last name unknown, born August 17, 1768, died December 1831, and is buried in the Eusebia Presbyterian Church cemetery. I believe that Adam married Rachel Logan in 1835. Adam was dead by September 7, 1840 when his court appointed apprenticeships for Douthard and Williamson Dailey ended. Although his tombstone is not recorded, Adam is probably buried in the Eusebia Cemetery next to his first wife Mary.
After Adam Kuns’ death a Blount County indenture registered September 15, 1847, noted the splitting up of his land to the following children:
1. Michael Kouns
2. Katherine who married James Julian and living in Murray County, Georgia
3. Dorothy of Knox County who married Michael French
4. Ann who married Anderson H. Crowder, living in Roane County, Tennessee
5. Sarah, wife of Jacob French of Knox County, Tennessee
Adam Kuns was a son Henry and Dorothy Kounts of Washington County, Virginia. Henry Kounts owned 330 acres of land, surveyed on June 10, 1786, on the Middle Fork of the Holston River. Henry died before September 22, 1798 when an Inventory and Appraisement of his estate listed his wife Dorothy as the administratrix.
On January 10, 1811, the Washington County court acknowledged the sale of Henry Kounts’ 300 acres for $1000 and named his children on the indenture:
1. Adam Kounts and wife Mary
2. Henry Kounts and wife Tylpha (probably Zilphy Roach)
3. John Kounts and wife Sarah
4. Catherine and husband Robert Murrin
5. Margaret and husband Lambert Reid/Reed
As previously noted, Adam Kuns was in Blount County by 1798 and was followed shortly thereafter by his siblings and their families. Adam, Henry, and John Kunse, as well as Robert Murrin and Lambert Reed were taxed for land in Blount County in 1801.
“In Early East Tennessee Taxpayers,” Pollyanna Creekmore notes that a group of German families settled on Cooked Creek. Among others were Cupp, Halfley, Kunse, Nyman, and Thomas, most of who came from southwest Virginia.
Although not yet proven, it is possible that Henry Kounts was a son of Jost Kuntze. Jost Kuntze and family came to Virginia in 1714 with other German families as part of Governor Spotswood’s mining scheme that resulted in the Germanna Settlement in what is now Orange County, Virginia.
Roy Siple
Vienna, VA
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