in 1650 in his Jewes in America. Both Roger Williams and Jonathan Edwards seemed rather inclined to favour the view, which, as elaborately set forth by Adair, has since found champions in Elias Boudinot (Star in the West, 1816) and in Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough. Among the points of similarity between the Jews and Indians, Adair emphasised the division into tribes, worship of a great spirit, Jehovah, notions of a theocracy, of ablutions and uncleanness, cities of refuge, and practices as regards divorce and raising seed to a deceased brother. The bias imparted by this theory to many of Adair's remarks led Volney to condemn the whole book in his Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis. The second half of the book is more strictly An Account of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah Nations. Lord Kingsborough reprinted the whole of the first part of Adair's work in the eighth volume of his sumptuous Mexican Antiquities, with an appendix of notes and illustrations from inedited works by French and Spanish authors, 'affording the most satisfactory proofs of Adair's veracity in the minutest particulars.' Adair's map of the American Indian nations is partially reproduced in Winsor's History of America. References Attribution Sources Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. External links The History of the American Indians (Internet Archive) James Adair Profile and Videos - Chickasaw.TV 1709 births 1783 deaths 18th-century Irish people 18th-century Irish historians Kingdom of Ireland emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies Writers from Greenville, South Carolina People from County Antrim 18th-century American historians Historians of Native Americans American historians