The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], 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 ... 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 [sic] lands, with their productions -- the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians -- and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ...

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], 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 ... 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 [sic] lands, with their productions -- the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians -- and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

Author/creator	Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly..., 1775.
Description	12 unnumbered pages, 464 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map ; 28 cm
Subject(s)	Indians of North America--Southern States --Early works to 1800. Indians--Origin --Early works to 1800. Cherokee Indians--Early works to 1800. Catawba Indians--Early works to 1800.

General note	Date in roman numerals.
General note	Includes "Observations, and arguments, in proof of the American Indians being descended from the Jews": p. 15-220.
General note	"An Account of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah nations : with occasional observations on their laws, and the conduct of our governors, superintendants, missionaries, &c., towards them" (p. [221]-373) has its own t.p.
General note	Map has title: A map of the American Indian nations, adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], West & East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia, &c. / Jno. Lodge, sculp.
Acquisitions source	Joyner- Purchased: George S. MacManus Co., Bryn Mawr, PA, 2008;
LCCN	04003634

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Joyner	NC Rare	E77 .A213 1775	✔ Available	Request Material