------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, however an ‘i’ is prefixed for the twenty-seven notes in the Introduction. 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 each section. This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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_ BY SAMUEL COLE WILLIAMS, LL.D. [Illustration: colophon] THE WATAUGA PRESS JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE 1930 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1930 _By the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, in Tennessee_ ---