Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country

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The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country

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[2] leaves, [8], 464 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 30 cm

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The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXV [1775].

Page 102 wrongly numbered 101.

Pages 1-220 contain arguments on the descent of the American Indians from the Jews; pages 221-374 contain accounts of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah nations; pages 376-448 contain general observation; pages 449-464 contain an appendix, "Advice to statesmen; shewing the advantages of mutual affection between Great Britain and the North American Colonies.

"A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining to the Missisippi, West & East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia. &c." engraved by John Lodge.

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Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783, “The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed April 29, 2024, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/3858.
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