Information from Val Green, a historian interested in Indian traders: "Yes they are all the same family. However, the rest of the Adairs disdain James Adair and his book because he had mixed marriages. A lot of the Adairs still live in Laurens County. A couple of them lived in Fairfield and Chester counties." --- -----Original Message----- From: Pelham Lyles [mailto:fairfieldmus@truvista.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:06 PM To: 'scchest2@rootsweb.com' Cc: 'kliliya@aol.com' Subject: RE: [SCCHEST2] SCHEST2 Thanksgiving James Adair (ca. 1709-ca. 1775) authored what is arguably the most significant eighteenth-century work on the southeastern Indians: The History of the American Indians . . ., published in London in 1775. The book, a cultural and historical study of the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, is based on Adair's first-hand observations derived from his 40-year career as a deerskin trader among several southeastern Indian tribes. Could there be a relationship???? Pelham Lyles Fairfield County Museum -----Original Message----- From: dmh8620@bellsouth.net [mailto:dmh8620@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:06 AM To: SCCHEST2@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCCHEST2] SCHEST2 Thanksgiving My great great grandfather, William ADAIR and his parents. Attendance by the parents would confirm their identity. I'd also like to ask about the father's Revolutionary War involvement.