Adair's History of the American Indians

Front matter

Reading edition

Transcriber’s Note:

This volume is a reprint of Adair’s original text. The editor had preserved the page numbers in the form of bracketed numbers. Those page breaks frequently were interpolated in mid-word. In this rendering of the text, those page numbers are moved slightly to allow each word to complete without hyphenation.

The Adair’s fifty-six footnotes, originally employing ‘*’ and ‘†’, have been reindexed sequentially using Roman numerals. As the editor informs us in his Preface, some of these notes were extended by him. Adair’s portion is followed by ‘(A)’, for Adair, and his own extended remarks are followed by ‘(W)’, for ‘Williams.’

The editor’s own footnotes were already numbered sequentially from the first to the last page, beginning again at ‘1’ after the Introduction. This approach has been retained.

Adair’s footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. The editor’s notes are gathered at the end of the text, following the Index, and are linked for ease of reference.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

Adair’s History of the

American Indians

OTHER WORKS OF THE EDITOR

William Tatham, Wataugan, 1923 (out of print)

History of the Lost State of Franklin, 1924 (out of print)

Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake, ed., 1927

Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1928

The Beginnings of West Tennessee, 1929

Adair’s History

of the

American Indians

Edited under the auspices of the

National Society of the Colonial

Dames of America, in Tennessee

SAMUEL COLE WILLIAMS, LL.D.

THE WATAUGA PRESS

JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE

1930

By the National Society of Colonial

Dames of America, in Tennessee

Printed in an edition limited to

750 copies from type.

MANUFACTURED COMPLETE BY

KINGSPORT PRESS, Inc.

KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE

United States of America