Adam Mast, son of Joseph and Eve (Bowers) Mast, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, March 6, 1784, and in 1807 married Elizabeth Cable, who was born March 15, 1785, a daughter of Casper Cable, who was a Hessian soldier and was captured by Washington’s forces at Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas day of 1776. On taking the oath of allegiance he was released and went to Pennsylvania, where he married a Miss Baker, and with his wife and her brother, John Baker, he emigrated to North Carolina, making a settlement on the Blue Ridge. Later they removed to the present site of Boone, where a number of their children were born, and in 1800 they took up their abode on a tract of land in what is now Johnson county, Tennessee. Cable was a leading citizen.

Transcribed from: Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1796-1923 by John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster published by S.J Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.