James Robert Adair - James Robert Adairs wives are an open issue with me. Sources are all over the place!

You might want to move notes, images, docs and projects over to your new profile from this man.

James Adair of Bladen County

His family links are correct, the “about” is not.

This page may help you also.

http://www.adair-holland.com/james.html

I'd like to propose that we do some name-changing for better identification and separation.

We currently have James Adair and James Robert Adair, ok for the profile, but for the Display name we should show.

James Adair as James Adair (abt. 1710 - abt. 1776), Indian Trader and Author
and
James Robert Adair (abt. 1709 - abt. 1783) of Bladen, Historian

Kathryn,
Am I correct that James Adair, Indian Trader and Author had only one (maybe more) Chickasaw wife, mother of his tow sons who married Cherokee women.

Then about that, I understand that interclan marriages were encouraged but intertribal marriages were not? If the sons who were 50% Chickasaw married Cherokee women, were there consequences?

So what this gets down to is James Adair, Indian Trader possibly with a Chickasaw wife should be an isolated branch, no known parents and the purported two sons are not proven. then the two sons tied as brothers to and Unknown Adair father and NN mother.

Starr says
1 ____ Adair.
11 John Adair. Ga-ho-ga and Jennie Kilgore. A47
12 Edward Adair. Elizabeth.

A47. John Adair, a Scotchman, married Mrs. Ge-ho-ga Foster, a full blood Cherokee of the Deer clan. She was a sister of Mrs. Dorcas Duncan, wife of Young Charles Gordon Duncan who was also a Scotchman. Adair had five children that lived to be grown and after her death he married Jennie Kilgore, a White woman, by whom he had ten children.

Almost there on the genealogy, as I understand it, but not on the names.

• a middle name of Robert is unsourced for either. It’s on the memorial for Dr. James Robert Adair, which has other errors also - such as mixing him up with James Adair who mostly lived in Bladen County, North Carolina.
• That James Adair was not an Indian trader, not a historian, not an author. So the best identification for him is, IMO, his toponym.
• James Adair, Indian trader, has been the display name for the notable historian for many years. Adding historian and / or author is OK, but need to retain Indian trader or everyone will get even more confused than they are already.
• It seems documented there James-the-author had a Chickasaw wife. It could be there were children from that marriage but there is no information. So it’s not that the children are unproven. They are wrong and should not be attached to him. That’s my understanding, anyway.
• Theres also the Connecticut Adair who gets mixed in there.
• None of the Adairs we are discussing have known origins although many have tried.

Unless they’re notable, I tend to use disambiguating display names based on what people called themselves.

In his will, transcribed on his profile, James Adair of Bladen County writes:

In the name of God, "Amen." I, James Adair in Bladen County in North Carolina ….

(no “James Robert” in his Will or his marriage record). He definitely wasn’t a historian, that was James Adair, Indian Trader & Author

What I don’t know is if James-the-author was also a “pioneer physician and patriot”

I do know he wasn’t actually buried in North Carolina.

This is the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adair-458 (John Adair, 1753-1815)

who married into the Cherokee people. No known connection to James-the-author or to James of Bladen County, NC.

John Adair, Sr.

I notice that Wikitree has parents & brother for him.

Yes, thank you, all very confusing. I have removed as a profile photo the headstone got the MD.

To date I’ve
- not worked too much on James Adair of Bladen
-isolated branch of James Adair Indian Trader & Authoe with possible Eleanor Chickasaw wife
-brothers James and Edward are now top of tree under NN Adair per Starr, will develop children in that manner
-but there are discussions as to the brothers names, James and Edward or James and Joseph, I’ll follow Starr and WikiTree

Here’s a likely erroneous news article.

CLIPPED FROM
The Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina
26 Feb 1951, Mon • Page 75

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42471637/james-robert-adair-bio/

Please note that “Robin” Adair was a totally different person from James Adair, Indian Trader; and from James Adair, of Bladen County.

Robert "Robin" Adair

Recorded at Daughters of the American Revolution: < Ancestor #: A000357 >

Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 1709 IRELAND
Death: ANTE 8- -1786 BLADEN CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: PRUITT, ABSTRACTS OF LAND WARRANTS, BLADEN CO, P 75
Service Description: 1) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND ENTRY, BLADEN CO, 3 FEB 1779

Comments:

1) PREVIOUSLY CREDITED SERVICE AS SURGEON TO AMERICAN TROOPS CANNOT

2) BE VERIFIED AT THIS TIME.

3) FAMPCL-NEED PROOF WHETHER JAMES WAS MARRIED TO ONE WOMAN OR TO

4) TWO WOMEN & HER/THEIR CORRECT NAME. SEE DATACF. 7/2014

I “spun off” research notes discussing the different James Adairs to a PDF document and attached to profiles, if anyone wants to wade through in the future.

“Mixups of different James Adairs.” (2023) (document attached)

Here is the James Adair, of FaIrfield who married Ann Adair

Here is the James Adair, of Georgia who married Ann Ester Adair