Hi Teri,
To what are you referring with this link? I’m familiar with ChickasawTV but I see nothing in the brief article that even mentions Ann McCarty. I’ve also listened to the videos.
Ann McCarty’s name is mentioned as a wife is some tertiary sources, but so are Anna McBride, Ester McBride, Eleanor (who may be Chickasaw), and a few others.
What we have concluded is that there are at least two James Adairs who live at the same time in the southeastern area of Colonial America, and these two gentlemen are continuously confounded. There is a cleanup project currently underway to separate the data correctly based on documents, not tertiary sources.
We have separated these gentleman with the display names James Adair Indian Trader and Author, and James Adair of Bladen Historian, to help clarify. It is for this James Adair of Blane’s that wife Ann McCarty is has been considered.
James Adair Indian Trader and Author (His book “The history of the American Indians” (its theory now debunked) can be found at https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00adairich/page/10/mode) is unidentified in Emmett Starr, the eminent Cherokee historian, where he is discussed in sources he is referred to as having been unmarried, which is likely in the context of a white marriage to a white woman; but it has been suggested that he married a Chickasaw woman, and possibly more than one, while in Indian Territory in the fashion of an Indian marriage.
Bottom line is that there is no documentation that supports a marriage of any kind.
This is the reason Ann McCarty was detached for lack of specific evidence.
These profiles are a current work in progress, any input you may have is appreciated and can be presented here for discussion.
