Adair's History of the American Indians

by James Adair

[1]. Agnew, Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway, 50 et seq.

[2]. Ibid.

[3]. Chalmers, Caledonia, V, 395.

[4]. In Dr. James B. Adair’s Adair History and Genealogy it is stated that Adair first settled in Pennsylvania, but Ghent in his article on Adair in Dictionary of American Biography, I, 33, refuses to follow him, and it seems, for good reasons. Only one reference in Adair’s book is to Pennsylvania, and that merely to the Pennsylvania Germans.

[5]. History of American Indians, 307.

[6]. Hunter’s Map has a notation which shows that Haig had also made a map or sketch of the region.

[7]. Hist. Am. Inds., 344. See note 194 infra.

[8]. A monopoly of one year’s duration had been offered McGillivray in 1749 on condition that he should win over the Choctaws.

[9]. Adair was not alone in the indulgence of biting criticism of Glen. Gov. Dinwiddie, of Virginia, wrote of him (1755): “He is altogether the strangest possitive assuming Man I ever corresponded with, and there I leave him.” Dinwiddie Papers, I, 508.

[10]. Hist. Am. Inds., 323.