James Adair (ca. 1709-1783)

Biography

An Irishman from County Antrim, Adair arrived in the Americas in 1735 or sometime before. He traded with the Catawbas and Cherokees until 1744, after which he established a relationship with the Chickasaws in Mississippi. He negotiated peace deals with the Native Americans and was known to them primarily as a diplomat. In 1769 he returned to the British Isles for a brief time. He later returned to the new world, he died in North Carolina in 1783.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• The Hstory of the American Indians: Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia (1775)

Sources and Links

• Tennessee Authors

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