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James Makittrick Adair

Profile & Legacies Summary

1738 - 1801

Biography

Physician and anti-aboltionist pamphleteer, practising in Antigua (perhaps c. 1760-1780). He has an entry in the ODNB as 'physician'.


Sources

W. P. Courtney, ‘Adair, James Makittrick (1728–1801)’, rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/81, accessed 16 June 2017].

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
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Married but no further details
Will

PROB 11/1366/153.

Will of James Makithrick [sic] Adair, Doctor of Physic of Newton upon Air proved 07/12/1801. In the will, for which the executors included William and Richard Lee the London West india merchants, he specified debts owing to him including (among smaller debts such as £160 from John Burke of Antigua) three larger amounts: £5000 from John McConnell on mortgage at 6% [i.e. at 'colonial interest']; a £5000 bond from James Bailie which his eldest son would settle, his father's credit having paid £3332 and the interest; and a £5000 bond from William Smith, which because of the Grenada insurrection had been termed out to 1812.

Oxford DNB Entry
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Legacies Summary

Historical (1)

PamphletsAuthor?
Unanswerable Arguments Against the Abolition of the Slave Trade... 1790 
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Addresses (1)

Newton-on-Ayr, Ayrshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland
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