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DNB

 * Article title: Adair, John
 * Author: Coote, Charles Henry
 * LEAD: ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722), an eminent Scottish surveyor and map maker, lived during the close of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
 * LEAD: ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722), an eminent Scottish surveyor and map maker, lived during the close of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
 * LEAD: ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722), an eminent Scottish surveyor and map maker, lived during the close of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

General

 * Sir R. Sibbald's Account of Scottish Atlas, 1683, fol.
 * Rich. Gough's British Topography, 1780, vol. ii., 4to
 * G. Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. 1810, 4to
 * Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica (Authors), vol. i. 1824, 4to
 * Papers relating to John Adair, 1686–1723, printed in Bannatyne Miscellany, vol. ii. 1836, 4to
 * Biographical Dictionary, Soc. D.U.K. 1842, 8vo

Cites

 * an act of tunnage was passed by parliament 14 June, 1686, ‘In favour of John Adair, geographer, for surveying the kingdom of Scotland, and navigating the coasts and isles thereof’ (1st Parl. Ja. VII, cap. 21)
 * a report of the committee of privy council, Aug. 1694, ‘The Committee appointed to examine the progress made by John Adair in the maps of Scotland doe find that there are elleuen maps made by him relating to the land, and nyne relateing to the sea.’
 * Acta Parl. vol. xi. App. p. 49
 * a minute of the Barons of Exchequer, Martis 19o Nov. 1723, to the following effect: ‘Mrs. Adair, Relict of Jno Adair, late Geographer, having given upon oath an Inventory of all Maps and Papers belonging to her late Husband, in pursuance of the Lord Justices Sign Manual, dated 21st June past, Ordd that the same be lodged in the Remrs Office, and the Precept for payment of her allowance of £40 pr an. be delivered to her.’
 * British Topography, vol. ii. p. 577

Works

 * An Account of the Scottish Atlas, Edinburgh (1683)
 * Description of the Sea Coasts and Islands of Scotland, with Large and Exact Maps for the use of Seamen. By John Adair, Geographer for that Kingdom. Edinburgh, fol. (1703)
 * ‘Inventory of the Maps and Papers delivered by Jean Adair, Relict of Mr. John Adair, Geographer, F.R.S., to the Right Honble the Barons of exchequer in persuance of a Warrent from the Lords Justices, dated 21st June, 1723’
 * ‘A Journal of the Voyage made to the North and West Islands of Scotland by John Adair, Geographer, in the year 1698, consisting of fifteen full sheets, and seems to be the original by his own hand.’
 * A list of nine maps relative to the said journal:—1, Channel between Hoy and Pomona; 2, West Coast of Ross; 3, Island and Port of Cana; 4, Scalpa, with the Coast of Harris; 5, East Coast of Uist; 6 and 7, Views of the foresaid Islands; 8, South Coast of Sky; 9, South Islands of Orkney.