James Colbert (trader)

James Logan Colbert (c. 1720 – 7 January 1784) was a Scottish trader and military officer who lived much of his life among the Chickasaw. He served as an officer of the British Army who commanded an independent company in the Western Theater of the American Revolutionary War. In 1783, Colbert led an unsuccessful raid on the Spanish village of Arkansas Post, Louisiana (present-day Arkansas) in an attempt to capture Fort Carlos III.

Biography
James Logan Colbert was born about 1720 in Scotland. He immigrated to Georgia in January 1736. He was married to three Chickasaw women and among them had eight children; including George, Levi, and William, who became notable 19th-century tribal leaders. Fluent in Chickasaw, he served as an interpreter at the 1763 Augusta and the 1765 and 1771 Mobile Indian conferences He fought with the British during the American Revolutionary War; most notably at Fort Jefferson, where he was wounded in action, and Arkansas Post. He died on 7 January 1784 in West Florida en route from St. Augustine, East Florida.